Posted on 09/07/2006 10:52:30 AM PDT by VU4G10
Last month Homeland Security intentionally lied to the American people by claiming there are only 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
The true total is nearly three times that.
The 11 million figure is courtesy of a report released in August 2006 by the Office of Immigration Statistics of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The figure is intentionally understated. We discovered this while researching our book, "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders," and we believe it is done so as not to alarm the U.S. public. [Editor's Note: The "Minutemen" book by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome Corsi offers insights into the security concerns surrounding illegal immigration. Read more about it. Get our FREE Offer. Click Here Now.]
Why do we make this charge? To begin with, those conducting government surveys never ask directly, "Are you an illegal immigrant?" (To ask this question would be objectionable to many – certainly to illegal aliens and their enablers.) So, instead of asking this question, government researchers ask, "Are you foreign-born?"
If people acknowledge being foreign-born, they are asked when they arrived in the United States and whether or not they are U.S. citizens. Based on these answers, researchers make an estimate as to whether or not respondents are here illegally.
In other words, the government doesn't know how many illegal aliens are on U.S. soil, and it won't even ask relevant questions in its surveys. Instead, it prefers to guess.
We interviewed Dr. Jeffrey S. Passel at the Pew Hispanic Research Center in Washington, D.C., whose own estimates agree with those released by DHS.
Dr. Passel admitted that the government typically uses indirect means to estimate how many illegal aliens are in the United States. "Basically, we subtract the legal foreign-born population from the total foreign-born population that's in the survey, to get an estimate of the unauthorized migrants who appear in the survey," Dr. Passel told us in a telephone interview.
Now, the U.S. government excels at keeping statistics. The "U.S. Statistical Abstract" counts tens of thousands of measures that the government uses to make laws and enforce regulations. Everything from congressional representation to taxation issues, to how school budgets are allocated and transportation regulations enforced, are tallied and reported each year in the "Abstract."
When it comes to taxing its citizens, getting accurate numbers doesn't seem to be a problem. And yet our government can more exactly estimate how many hot dogs and hamburgers will be sold at next year's Super Bowl than estimate the number of illegal aliens in the United States today.
The government, for instance, does not count as illegal the millions of "anchor babies" who are born in the United States to illegal aliens. Under the federal government's politically correct interpretation of the 14th Amendment, anchor babies born here are U.S. citizens, not illegal aliens. And the government doesn't count the millions of illegals granted citizenship under one of the many amnesties Congress has passed since 1986.
The point is that illegal immigration numbers are all about politics. The term "illegal immigrant" is hated by supporters of open borders precisely because "illegal immigrant" describes too directly what is obviously going on. Supporters of unlimited open immigration want us to see illegal immigrants as "unauthorized migrants," or "undocumented immigrants," even as "guest workers." Spin is in — and simple English is the enemy.
Based on our research while writing our book, when groups the federal government excludes from its "official" estimates are properly counted, we conclude that there are currently 30 million illegal immigrants in the United States. That's right — 30 million, or nearly three times the number that DHS is guessing.
What's more, the evidence also suggests there are 10,000 more illegals crossing our unguarded borders every day. This translates to approximately 75,000 illegal immigrants crossing each week, with 4-6 million new illegals entering the U.S. each year.
These are unvetted, unapprehended aliens who intend to blend into our society and occupy our territory. Many having no intention whatsoever of assimilating and yet have no intention of returning to their homelands either.
This illegal alien invasion is the equivalent of four army divisions a week. While these individuals are busy entering and occupying American territory, our elected officials are busy forcing citizens and legal immigrants to pay for the "privilege" of being invaded.
The rate of illegal immigration is increasing geometrically. Within 5 to 10 years, we may see 10 million or more illegals crossing our borders each year. At this rate, somewhere around the year 2025, we may end up with 100 million illegal aliens in the United States — 1/3rd of more of our total population.
No wonder our government doesn't want an accurate count of illegal immigrants, especially not if an honest and direct methodology called for asking any "politically incorrect" questions in a "politically incorrect" manner.
Jim Gilchrist is the founder of the Minuteman Project. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., is the co-author of the NYT best-seller "Unfit for Command."
There are 11 million illegals just here in the SF Gay Area.
Thirty Million Plus...the actual number of illegals in the US of A. Of course DHS wouldn't lie to keep Americans from knowing the truth.
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I'm willing to bet the number is more like 50 million, and that's the big secret politcians are desperate to keep.
This will essentially de-populate Mexico, since their current population is around 100 million.
And the government doesn't count the millions of illegals granted citizenship under one of the many amnesties Congress has passed since 1986.
If they are CITIZENS, they are not illegal immigrants. You may wish we didn't give them amnesty, but we did, and those people are no longer illegal.
Calling citizens illegal clouds the issue of real illegals, people who are here NOW and should be sent back. Nobody is talking about revoking citizenship and sending these amnesty-people back. At least no sane people.
You can't believe or trust ONE word from the mouths of Bush and anyone in his administration about anything involving immigration/illegal immigration. Deliberate non-enforcement of borders and immigration laws IS the policy of the Bush administration.
How can the phony to begin with number of 11 million not increase in 5 years when you have thousands coming across the border daily?
We should just make Mexico the 51st state.
I've been saying 30 - 40 million, but I've read on sites that support the illegals that it's close to 50, something they have no qualms about boasting on.
Says who--hysterics who are frustrated that somehow illegal immigration isn't being stopped this instant?
This is the kind of laughable crap that the left wants to show people.
We should get the job done; that doesn't mean we judge an article's accuracy by the amount of hysteria it sells.
There's still all of Central and South America, not to mention Africa, Thailand, the old Soviet Block countries, etc.
" We discovered this while researching our book "
everyone is selling a book now-a-days
How Buchananesque.
"The term "illegal immigrant" is hated by supporters of open borders precisely because "illegal immigrant" describes too directly what is obviously going on. Supporters of unlimited open immigration want us to see illegal immigrants as "unauthorized migrants," or "undocumented immigrants," even as "guest workers." Spin is in — and simple English is the enemy. "
I heard a guest of O'Reillys add a new twist. The illegals and their supporters don't/won't say that they in favor of SECURING THE BORDER (against illegals and terrorists), they will only say they are in favor of PROTECTING THE BORDER (against terrorists, which they obviously claim they are not). Watch for them to make the argument that, of course they TOO are in favor of "PROTECTING" our borders!
Of course they're lying...They've claimed the 11 million number since 1956...
"We should just make Mexico the 51st state."
Absolutely not!!!!!!!!
Just saw this- FYI.
Major grrrr type noise from over here.
If you try to be analytical about it (and that really is what the census bureau does -- you can go to the documents and see how they compute it -- then argue with it based on facts.), either the claimed population of 300 million is 10, 20 or 40 million too low -- or, a lot more of the people here are illegal than are claimed.
Neither seems extremely likely. Just like precinct returns make up the vote totals (and that's why the Kerry claims in Ohio are so phony), census totals come from figures from the block level on up. They're available. People can look them up and try to explain why they are grossly wrong. And you can't just yell "there are 342 aliens in the house I heard of across town."
Or, you can try to explain why instead of , say 290 million legals (300-11) there are really only 280 million or 260 or 250. Those numbers are built up from birth and death records, citizenship records, and immigration records. Again, not perfect, but it really isn't likely that 30 or 40 million citizens disappeared over the past few decades.
I'm not claiming these figures are perfect -- I'm fine with an argument that there is an error range of a couple of million out of 300 million. But it's just loony to claim that it's off by 10s of millions -- at least without some serious attempt to say where they are, and how that differs from the official estimates.
That would raise the average temperature of our climate ...
If there really are more than 30 million illegals in the U.S. instead of 11 million, that would mean more than 10% of the people in the U.S. are here illegally. If this is the case, I can understand (but not agree with) the Senate wanting some type of amnesty plan. That many people facing deportation could lead, literally, to a domestic insurrection on the part of the illegals and the economic fallout from losing a tenth of the people in the country will not be mild. But something needs to be done. THe self deportation by penalizing employers is the simplest, first step.
I think he made promises to people before he was elected and refuses to go back on his promises. That is the only thing I can think of for him to continue this madness.
Thank you for the rationality.
I would only add that acting like a DemUndergrounder on this issue does not do anything to advance policies to control illegal immigration.
No offense, but the claim that none of these new arrivals ever leave is incorrect. Hundreds, if not thousands leave each and every day.
While the number entering is out pacing the number leaving, many do leave. There are hundreds of thousands of seasonal jobs and the illegals migrate back and forth.
Ths also happens the first of every month when their govt. checks arrive.
I am reminded of this because this AM I saw a young lady, dressed as though she were plucked out of some rural area in southern mexico & dropped on a street corner in Los Gatos to sell strawberries, who looked at least 8 months pregnant. I think its safe to say she ain't going anywhere.
"What's more, the evidence also suggests there are 10,000 more illegals crossing our unguarded borders every day. This translates to approximately 75,000 illegal immigrants crossing each week, with 4-6 million new illegals entering the U.S. each year."
I seem to recall GWB mentioning that we are involved with a long and protracted WOT.
Perhaps I misunderstood him.
Does that make their assertion incorrect?
Shocker.
After all, they've always been so forthcoming and honest about everything else...
Heck, I go with the Bear-Stearns report that estimated the illegals at
about 20 million.
And I think that report is from about 2 years ago.
Unlike the Federal guvmint, Bear-Stearns has to make the best assessment
possible...because they are trying to MAKE money...not just print it
or spend other people's money.
I grew up in SJ & used to commute with my 7'er to Steamers Lane & Pleasure Pt two or three times a week. You locals weren't a very friendly lot:)
It's likely there were 20,000,000 of these criminals in the US by 2003...
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html
And the numbers increase by the thousands per day...
How do they know this???
We were if you had good looking daughters!
"Does that make their assertion incorrect?"
not saying one way or the other, I'd just say it makes a little top heavy
Perfectly legal, and good capitalism to boot!
susie
heck, there are 20 million here in the city of Los Angeles.
My conservative guess would be that there are 30 to 50 million illegals in the USofA.
I've been saying from 30 to 50 million for ages....sometimes got heckled for it.
There were probably 15-20 million here in 2000, when the Gov reported 8 million illegals.
The real point is that the problem is one hell of a lot worse than most think or willing to admit.
The way we are headed, the population will be comprised of 1/3 illegals and their offspring. Probably by 2030.
There have probably been 10 million just in overstayed visas. Look it up!
In Arizona last year, they were catching 160,000 per month. Since they only catch from 1 out of 5 or possibly, one out of 10....you can do the math. This is from people involved at the border!
They are coming from all over the world to get here. This administration has rolled out the red carpet.
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