Editorial

Immigration problem a problem no more?

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Immigration has been a hot-button issue in this and previous elections, with tough immigration laws in Alabama, Arizona -- and even Fremont, Nebraska, drawing attention from both sides of the issue -- a Fremont city ordinance requires employers to double-check the immigration status of new employees.

Part of Fremont's law, requiring landlords to perform similar checks on tenants, was thrown out by a U.S. District Judge, but the employment provisions are going into effect.

Arizona's immigration law is being challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.

But according to a Pew Hispanic Center study, the flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has slowed and even reversed.

From 1995 to 2000, some 2.9 million Mexicans arrived in the United States, and only 670,000 went the other way, a net U.S. gain of more than 2.2 million.

A decade later, however, just 1.37 million arrived from Mexico, and 1.39 million went south.

The report indicates that the number of illegal Mexicans living in the U.S. fell from nearly 7 million in 2007 to 6.1 million in 2011, according to U.S. census estimates.

Over that same period, the number of legal Mexican migrants to the U.S. rose slightly, by 200,000 up to 5.8 million.

According th the Pew report, a "significant minority" of the 1.3 million people, between 5 and 35 percent, who left the U.S. did not leave voluntarily. The Obama administration reports deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants from 2009 through 2011.

Why the change? According to backers of "self-deportation," it's because the requirement to present documents encourages illegals to leave on their own.

Others say it's because the birth rate in Mexico has declined.

Still others point to the slow U.S. economy. Well, that's one way to solve the problem, but not one we'd prefer.

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  • This is a big problem. In another section of the paper today it was reported that 2 friendly, hard working people--Clive and Joy must leave the country and Oz-Tex behind.

    -- Posted by dennis on Tue, Apr 24, 2012, at 3:03 PM
  • The illegal immigration Armageddon

    Not that American citizens' have any faith in what the U.S. government tells us, as I prefer to listen to people who live along the border fence. WASHINGTON D.C. TELLS US WHAT THE PUBLIC WANT TO HEAR? The populace has been lied to so much by those in power now, and even the GOP, that nothing that comes out of either of their mouths is at all trustworthy? Just look at the 'Solyndra' and gun running scandal and the unaccountable dollars spent for leisure by General Service's administration. Personally I don't trust any of them, therefore telling us the numbers of illegal aliens entry numbers are way down, can be taken with a pinch of salt? Many foreign nationals may have left, but what about the estimated 20 million plus, still squatting here. Are we not still paying for their 'Foothold' babies--that's not peanuts? Taxpayers are nothing more than 'beasts of burden' for the rest of the world, who are continuously asked to give more..?

    This Wednesday the U.S. High Court will hear Arizona vs. United States and its resistance to the incredible harassment of its policing statutes by the Department of Justice. SCOTUS will either, uphold S.B 1070 for this small defenseless border state, whose deficit was a monstrous 2.7 Billion dollars in 2009 or fall fail to the incompetent DOJ. Democratic Senator Charles Schumer said on Tuesday if the Supreme Court upholds Arizona's law, he will introduce legislation that prevents state and local authorities from enforcing their own immigration regulations. This would be the perfect storm to eject all the Democratic Senators, and their thrall of hard core Liberals out of Washington. These are the reasons that illegal immigration is thriving to not only accumulate illegal votes in November, but the $113 billion dollars extorted from our taxes for illegal alien welfare annually.

    Neither this administration or its predecessors have secured the border fence. Both political parties have failed miserably to protect this country from the illegal alien occupation. Additionally the American voter must drive, track and use the severe pressure of their vote to verbally intimidate every Republican, Democrat and Liberal, informing them that they will unseat them. It is imperative that whatever the outcome of the Arizona court conflict, is to force passage of E-Verify. E-Verify mandated law would authenticate whether somebody can get employment or not? Other persons flagged will have the choice of clearing up their problem with the Social Security administration near them?

    Voters must demand from GOP John Boehner, to stop blocking the bipartisan E-Verify "THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT" from being introduced in Congress by Texas Senator Lamar Smith. Taxpayers are continuously suffering at the hands of corrupt politicians who have sold us into financial slavery by allowing illegal immigration to persist almost unopposed in coming here. A second law to support The Legal Workforce Act H.R. 2885 is to amend the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 (H.R.140); the country cannot maintain in subsidizing billions of dollars being extracted from the 50 states? Not just the bad politicians should be thrown out of office, but state Governors, Mayors, Judges and all elected officials, and substitute them with Fresh Tea Party leaders who will insure everybody gets their fair share of the American Dream and enforce all laws attributed to the Constitution and the Rule of Law.

    The consequences of pregnant females smuggled across our border, who fly in just to take advantage of the U.S. unfunded mandates laws for hospital delivery. Don't know who to call in Washington, and then phone 202-224-3121? The switchboard will connect you with your Representative aid? Every prospective contender would be well advised to read the immigration sullen statistics advanced by "The Heritage Foundation". According to American Federation of Immigration Reform (FAIR) there is a 2.5 Trillion dollars price tag to legitimize the 20 million plus Illegal's who have settled here? All patriotic Americans should locate your local TEA PARTY chapter. The Tea Party is the people's party and it welcomes every citizen and lawful resident who came to America legally. On the American Patrol website, covers the illegal alien issue, but a daily helping of the e-media from the National media, revealing everything that is against "the Rule of law' and the sovereignty of this nation, constantly broken by Obama people.

    -- Posted by Brittanicus on Tue, Apr 24, 2012, at 5:32 PM
  • I believe that it was Great Britain's PM Tony Blair that said "The truest measure of any country is the number of people trying to get in or the number trying to get out." But with that said, I am afraid that our generosity has its liabilities. Please read and check out the following statistics.

    I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts...

    1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

    Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

    2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

    3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

    4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

    5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

    Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &social services by the American taxpayers.

    Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

    9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://transcripts..cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

    11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

    Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

    12. The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'

    Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

    13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.

    Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm>

    14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United States.'

    Verify at: http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

    the total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 That is $10727.00 per second!!!!

    -- Posted by quick13 on Wed, Apr 25, 2012, at 10:22 AM
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