US illegal migrants up almost 500,000 a year

US illegal migrants up almost 500,000 a year
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US illegal migrants up almost 500,000 a year

By Edward Alden in Washington

Published: March 7 2006 20:27 | Last updated: March 7 2006 23:33

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/918e2a54-ae13-11da-8ffb-0000779e2340.html
US immigration

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.

Increased efforts?? Are they joking?? The Minutemen have done a better job of securing our borders that the Government.

The study, by the Pew Hispanic Center, said that the population of unauthorized 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.

But they keep trying to tell us that the TOTAL of illegals in the U.S. is 11 Million, but yet now 500,000 per YEAR are coming in.....how does that add up??? What a crock of shit. If we know how many are here - round 'em up, move 'em out!!

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.

No, the driving force is CHEAP labor and free Government programs!!!!!

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.

No Arlen Sphincter - do what the American People want you to do and send them home!!!!!!

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.

The vast majority of those end up finding work in the US. Among adult males, 94 per cent of illegal immigrants participated in the US labour force, compared with an 83 per cent participation rate for native-born men.

That's because Americans have invested in their lives, Americans have invested in their educations and deserve better than $6.50 an hour. Also Americans are not involved in illegal activities that earn additional money, so Americans cannot live on that shit!


Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007

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"THE DEMON SLAYER"


Some say the stats are skewed too low! It's actually about twice the amount!

Posted by "THE DEMON SLAYER" on Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 7:12 AM
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Nevada Lights


There are at LEAST 20 plus million illegals in this Country. At LEAST!

All you have to do is look around, California is mostly immigrants and that's just one State. Then you have Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Nevada.

When I moved to the Reno area the mexican population was less than 5 percent. In two years they were up to 12 percent of the population. Murders, thefts, vandalism, gang activity ALL went up over 50 percent.

Not to mention housing prices, which I think a lot of places raise their housing market to try to keep the uneducated people out and end outpricing themselves, because let's face it, in America today, who has more? The ignorant people are the ones who are catered to. So no matter what a community does, they have to face the facts - we have an illegal immigration problem!

Bottom line!

Posted by Nevada Lights on Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 8:33 AM
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