Posted on 03/07/2006 2:01:31 PM PST by VU4G10
The number of illegal immigrants in the US has continued to grow by nearly half a million each year in spite of US efforts to increase security at the country’s borders, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
The study, by the Pew Hispanic Center, said that the population of unauthorised migrants reached between 11.5m and 12m last year, accounting for nearly a third of the foreign-born population in the US. That number is up from roughly 8.4m in 2000.
The continued rise was driven primarily by the strong demand for low-skilled work in the US. “What we’re seeing is a labour migration that is tied to employment opportunities,” said Jeffrey Passel, the study’s author.
The findings come as the Senate is set to take up on Wednesday legislation aimed at stemming the flow of illegal immigrants coming to the US. The Senate judiciary committee is launching a three-week effort to produce a bill that the committee’s chairman, Republican Arlen Specter, hopes will create new legal channels for foreign workers in the US.
The proposal, outlined by committee staff on Monday, would allow those illegally in the US to apply for renewable two-year work visas, and would create a new guest worker programme to allow new workers to come to the US legally.
That contrasts with legislation that passed the House of Representatives late last year and would toughen enforcement against illegal aliens but would not allow for new guest workers. Differences between the House bill and the Senate version would have to be resolved later this year.
The Pew survey underscored the substantial presence of illegal workers in the US labour market. It estimated about 4.9 per cent of the US labour force, or 7.2m workers, was composed of unauthorised migrants.
Nearly a third of those work in service occupations, 19 per cent in construction and 15 per cent in production, installation and repair jobs. Illegal workers are especially prevalent in farming, where they make up nearly a quarter of all workers, as well as cleaning, residential home construction and food processing.
Despite beefing up border patrols and constructing fences along the southern US border with Mexico, the US has so far been unable to reverse the flow of illegal migrants there. The study found that the southern border remains the gateway to the US, with Mexican migrants making up 56 per cent of the unauthorised population, and another 22 per cent coming from the rest of Latin America, particularly Central American countries such as Guatemala and El Salvador.
Arlen Sphincter amnesty ping
Criminal Arlen Sphincter should be arrested and ..
Now you understand the real estate "boom"
"but it's no deterent to the others, and would cost a bundle. "
It's a deterrent. If they had all their posessions seized (yes, the Consitution only protects citizens, not illegals)and were booted back to Mejico with only the clothes on their backs, that would deter them from coming back and others from coming.
Plus, they wouldnt have any more money to pay another coyote...
Yawn. Relax and go back to sleep. This is all part of genius George Bush's grand plan for our great country and we should not question his wisdom. I am confident he knows what he is doing letting all these people in. Besides, Rush isn't worried about it either.
"It's a deterrent. If they had all their posessions seized ..."
Obviously, what they had with them would be subject to "abandonment" rather then them being held in jail for trial.
Aawww, isn't that just precious -
- do you have one that says your post should refer to something that is mentioned in the thread rather then something you happened to cut n' paste from some 4 year old blog that has no sources at all ?
funny how that is, but the magic number stays at 12 million illegal immigrants in this country???
four years old, 12 million +500,000 per year??
How about 14 million here???
I still think it is way more than that.
even V. Fox, admits 10% of his entire countries population is living here...
Mr. Fox admits to at least 10% of his population living here...
Its not madness. its ON PURPOSE.. The republican leadershop just loves proto type democrats surging into the U.S..
WHY?.. Why indeed.. The games rigged, the dice are loaded..
The pubbie biggys can/could care less about massive democrat voter fraud too. Why?.. Why indeed.. Oh! I said that.. Anyway something stinks on BOTH sides of the aisle..
"(BTW : not a whole lot of people still value network news or old time print media above blogs) "
LOL- "The History of the World" by "anonymous posters"
I certainly hope it will never come to a time when the loudest shouting voices and the people with the most free time on their hands will determine just what the truth was.
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