Sadly, Clinton enforced our immigration laws more than Bush II did. Sad state of affairs...
GW’s fault.
WOT?
I don’t think so.
There is a link on Drudge and a thread regarding the report that 30% of Florida is now illegal. The 2006 Census has the Florida population at 18 million. So at LEAST 6 million illegals are in Florida alone. And they keep trying to tell us that there are only 13 million illegals in the country? Heck, there must be a million here in Atlanta alone.
U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
Say it isn’t so, and say it isn’t so that the electorate complain but still vote for what they complain about.
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Center for Immigration Studies
http://www.cis.org/articles/2007/back1007.html
Immigrants in the United States, 2007 A Profile of America’s Foreign-Born Population
This Backgrounder provides a detailed picture of the number and socio-economic status of the nation’s immigrant or foreign-born population, both legal and illegal. The data was collected by the Census Bureau in March 2007.
Among the report’s findings:
The nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached a record of 37.9 million in 2007.
Immigrants account for one in eight U.S. residents, the highest level in 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13.
Overall, nearly one in three immigrants is an illegal alien. Half of Mexican and Central American immigrants and one-third of South American immigrants are illegal.
Since 2000, 10.3 million immigrants have arrived — the highest seven-year period of immigration in U.S. history. More than half of post-2000 arrivals (5.6 million) are estimated to be illegal aliens.
The largest increases in immigrants were in California, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Arizona, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Of adult immigrants, 31 percent have not completed high school, compared to 8 percent of natives. Since 2000, immigration increased the number of workers without a high school diploma by 14 percent, and all other workers by 3 percent.
The share of immigrants and natives who are college graduates is about the same. Immigrants were once much more likely than natives to be college graduates.
The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, compared to 19 percent for native households.
The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children.
34 percent of immigrants lack health insurance, compared to 13 percent of natives. Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 71 percent of the increase in the uninsured since 1989.
Immigrants make significant progress over time. But even those who have been here for 20 years are more likely to be in poverty, lack insurance, or use welfare than are natives.
The primary reason for the high rates of immigrant poverty, lack of health insurance, and welfare use is their low education levels, not their legal status or an unwillingness to work.
Of immigrant households, 82 percent have at least one worker compared to 73 percent of native households.
There is a worker present in 78 percent of immigrant households using at least one welfare program.
Immigration accounts for virtually all of the national increase in public school enrollment over the last two decades. In 2007, there were 10.8 million school-age children from immigrant families in the United States.
Immigrants and natives have similar rates of entrepreneurship — 13 percent of natives and 11 percent of immigrants are self-employed.
Recent immigration has had no significant impact on the nation’s age structure. Without the 10.3 million post-2000 immigrants, the average age in America would be virtually unchanged at 36.5 years.
New York Times Style Book: illegal aliens=immigrants without legal status.
Mr. Language Guy
"A large proportion of recent immigrants, both legal and illegal, are low-skilled workers and about one-third of those have not completed high school, giving them significantly less education than Americans born in the United States, according to the study, which is based on census data as recent as March of this year."
We need to import needed specialties, skills, and talent, not people illiterate even in their native tongues.
The large scale immigrations of the past brought people with enough skills to match the needs of the country at the time they arrived. Needed education and skills then were not the same as in today's technological culture and our policies need to represent that change.
Encourage and facilitate legal import of those who will help advance the country and soundly discourage any other - particularly those who's first act on American soil is illegal.
The past year or so has proven, no thanks to our president or congress, that illegals and even some legal immigrants will pick up and leave when faced with reasonable local policies, the "can't round them up" debate is invalid. We don't have to round them up - just bust (and deport) them when they're encountered.
(Finally: Yes, I know there are some otherwise very good and deserving people in the invasion but illegal is illegal and making some consideration for sponsorship of those deserving it should certainly be included in any hypothetical reforms.)
There is no way they can count all of these people. These numbers are way too low!