jimnyc
12-26-2020, 12:19 PM
Still reeling from the mass explosion in Tennessee. Who would have an agenda to set off a large damaging bomb, but also intended to to limited harm to humans in the area?
Then on to immigration and Biden's potential plans.
If the liberals got their way there will be a massive influx of illegal immigrants into our nation. Some have already started the trek. There's been talk of simply removing the wall or anything that Trump was putting up. Yes, let's announce to the world that anyone can walk in as they please and no limitations in entering our country. I'm also more than confident that those that would bring harm to our nation are also watching this process. Then there was a lot of talk in the past about getting rid of ICE, border agents and more. No need to monitor that border if no wall there. Save money for the new green deal by eliminating all of the above. :rolleyes: Security all the way around our borders will be limited.
And what would the cost be? Saving a few billion dollars that Trump wanted to spend? Or save some yearly funds in protecting our borders? Save that funding & decrease our nations security. Illegal immigrants each cost the American taxpayer about $6,500 apiece. I'm reading that healthcare alone accounts for about $18.5 billion per year? WTF? One year saved would have paid for the entire wall 3x over.
Read down bottom for total costs breakdowns.
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Six Nashville Police Officers Recognized for Evacuating People Before Explosion
Six Nashville police officers have been recognized by the department for evacuating people and saving lives before Friday’s explosion in downtown Nashville.
The following officers were recognized: (https://www.wfla.com/news/national/6-nashville-officers-recognized-for-evacuating-residents-before-explosion/)
Officer Brenna Hosey, who has been with the department for four years
Officer James Luellen, who has been with the department for three years
Officer Michael Sipos, who has been with the department for 16 months
Officer Amanda Topping, who has been with the department for 21 months
Officer James Wells, who has been with the department for 21 months
Sergeant Timothy Miller, who has been with the department for 11 years
An RV exploded in an empty street in downtown Nashville at the intersection of Commerce Street and 2nd Avenue at approximately 6:30 a.m. Friday.
Police stated officers were investigating a shots-fired call when the explosion occurred. Three people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Breitbart News reported that the explosion is believed to have been intentional but meant to limit casualties. However, there were also human remains found at the bombing site, according to the Associated Press: (https://twitter.com/AP/status/1342595801541976065)
https://i.imgur.com/Ir8srnm.png
Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/12/26/six-nashville-police-officers-recognized-evacuating-people-before-explosion/
Nashville Police Chief: Police Were Responding to Shots Fired Call, Came Across RV with Recorded Warning of Blast
During a press conference to provide updates on the explosion in Nashville on Friday, Nashville Police Chief John Drake stated that police responded to a shots fired call, and then “encountered an RV that had a recording saying that a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes.”
Drake said, “This morning, around 5:30 a.m., officers responded to a call for shots fired in the downtown area, specifically 2nd and near Commerce. As officers responded, they encountered an RV that had a recording saying that a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes. Officers, upon hearing that, decided to evacuate the buildings nearby. So, they began knocking on doors, making announcements, having emergency communications communicate with everyone to get people safe. Shortly after that, the RV exploded. We had one officer that was knocked to the ground. Another officer is fine.”
Drake added that the police do not believe there is a risk of any further explosions in the area.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/12/25/nashville-police-chief-police-were-responding-to-shots-fired-call-came-across-rv-with-recorded-warning-of-blast/
Washington Post Warns Joe Biden: ‘Pandemonium at the Border’
The Washington Post has joined the chorus of Joe Biden’s supporters who are warning him not to implement his campaign trail promise to recklessly dismantle President Donald Trump’s hard-earned, pr0-American border reforms.
Biden “must also avoid triggering a new humanitarian crisis at the Mexican border featuring unauthorized Central Americans and Mexicans streaming north,” the Post’s editorial board said in a column on December 24.
The statement continued (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-needs-to-restore-american-values-to-immigration-policy-without-triggering-a-border-surge/2020/12/24/d1b60100-43d7-11eb-975c-d17b8815a66d_story.html):
Any sudden move to abolish [Trump’s] policy without an orderly system to replace it could be read as a green light that would invite more migrants than the U.S. bureaucracy can process. Nor is it reasonable to swiftly revoke the emergency public health order authorizing the summary expulsion of unauthorized migrants at the border, based on the pandemic’s threat.
However, the Post’s editorial board is not worried about fellow Americans’ wages and rents, communities, and schools.
Instead, Jeff Bezos’s employees are worried that border pandemonium could damage Biden’s broader agenda of extracting more workers and consumers from poor foreign countries for his domestic allies on Wall Street. The board wrote, “Make no mistake. … Any hope of building public support for a legislative overhaul of the immigration system, let alone bipartisan backing in Congress, would be blown to pieces by fresh images of pandemonium at the border.”
The Post has outlined that “legislative overhaul” agenda in prior editorials. On November 27, for example, the Post’s board described its mass migration wish list for Biden:
He can increase refugee admissions relatively quickly. … He can immediately stop work on Mr. Trump’s wasteful wall at the southern border. … He can ensure the renewal of work permits and end the threat of deportation for dreamers, and grant reprieves to hundreds of thousands of migrants whose temporary protected status Mr. Trump tried to remove.
It went on to state:
It will take longer to undo the hundreds of rule changes the Trump administration used to neuter legal immigration programs. … As for a pathway to citizenship for more than 10 million unauthorized immigrants, that will require legislation — a daunting prospect as long as Republicans control the Senate.
The Post’s solution for Biden’s dilemma is the same that Biden has offered — to convert a disorderly rush of illegal migrants into an orderly, legal rush of legal immigrants. The editorial board advised Americans on December 24 that “a patient, systematic overhaul of procedures is the best course for the post-pandemic future.”
The vast majority of Americans — including Democrats — want cheap-labor migration stopped so Americans can first compete for the jobs, wages, and economic security in a national labor market that is their birthright.
But the nation’s economic elite — and their progressive allies — favor immigration because it transfers wealth from wage earners to stockholders.
Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/12/26/washington-post-warns-joe-biden-pandemonium-border/
ImmigrationCounters.com provides the key numbers and events related to illegal immigration in the United States. Using the latest government and private sources, research and analysis trending data is factored at their individual rates of increase. For information about the research behind the individual counters clickhere Data Sources. ImmigrationCounters.com supports legal immigration and respect for all humanity yet highlights the significant impact of illegal immigration in America.
Illegal aliens in our country now - 20,106,234
Illegals other than Mexico - 504,106
Monies sent to Mexico since 2006 - 20,014,000
Monies sent to Latin America since 2001 - 213,749,999,000
Cost of Social Services since 1996 - 46,580,000,000
Children of Illegals in public schools - 2,250,665
Cost of illegals K-12 since 1996 - 12,955,000,000
Illegal aliens incarcerated - 151,658,218,750
Cost of incarcerations since 2008 - 655,869
Illegal alien fugitives - 16,518,060,765
Anchor babies since 2002 - 4,812,456
Skilled jobs provided to illegal aliens - 9,704,163
Data Sources
DATA COLLECTION METHODS: This site does not contain any original research, it contains research and data already released to the public so they don't need to mine the numerous reports themselves. Significant effort is made to provide what is believed to be the most reliable data and as such is published in good faith to maintain integrity of data. We find that the data used is sufficiently reliable for the purposes of this site.
The methodology; find the data as far back as available, total to the current date and project the rate of increase. Some counters are formulated with their beginning numbers that date back several years. Others, because older data was not available begin more recently. The beginning year will be noted with each counter data source. If available, trend data from the previous years are used to set the clock update rates.
The data is reviewed periodically yet because of the nature of data related to illegal immigration some information on this site may contain minor inaccuracies. As new data becomes available each counter will be modified. Information may be changed or updated without notice. ImmigrationCounters.com provides the Site as a free source of useful information to the general public. More counters will be added as the data becomes available.
As a result of illegal immigration government agencies have benefited due to growth in their programs to meet the expanding demands of their services. Some businesses are temporarily benefiting from illegal hiring. However, because of the increased costs of social services, law enforcement, lost revenue due to displaced legal hires, lost revenue from tax fraud and remittances, no sound research supports a net financial gain to the country. These costs are shifted over into higher taxes and insurance premiums. Non-profit services provided to illegal immigrants shifts resources that could be used for legal immigrants and citizens. The majority of research finds that illegal immigration is bad for America and often the illegal immigrants themselves. The intent of the immigration laws and that of the nation's founders are being violated on a scale few could have imagined. It is presumptuous for the government to assume it can implement a new and expanded amnesty guest worker program when its been unable or unwilling to manage the existing immigration laws.
This site is not intended to foster hatred or discrimination towards anyone, only to provide information so the public can make informed decisions on their own. The ramifications of illegal immigration goes beyond numbers and money and impacts all aspects of society. This topic is covered in greater detail through the books and links provided.
The public needs to be aware of some of the latest Politically Correct terms or "code words" used by activists, anti-enforcement groups and policy makers to avoid the social stigma of the word "illegal." As follows;
Foreign-Born Workforce, Law Abiding Undocumented, Undocumented Workers, Undocumented Immigrants, Undocumented Aliens, Undocumented Migrants, Unauthorized Population, Unauthorized Workers, Foreign-Born Population, Unauthorized Migrants, First Generation, Non-Citizens.
Activists use of the term "immigrant rights" does not apply to illegal immigrants who have no legal rights in the country, only human rights.
It's also important to realise that because of massive document and I.D. fraud, when an undocumented person is caught they're actually some of the most documented people in the world, it's just all fraudulent.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN COUNTRY, many more than 10M, many are unemployed or dependents:
Background: The popular myth that there are "10-11M undocumented workers in the country" is misleading, disingenuous and blatantly false. That figure fails to factor in the chain migration unemployed dependent family members (wives, grandparents, migrant children, migrant girlfriends, single mothers, anchor babies), the adult unemployed, those incarcerated, transients and fugitives. After the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was directed by Congress to stop counting in 1981, even the conservative numbers of the 2000 Census Bureau (CB) estimated at that time the total illegal immigration population was about 8 million. That figure was never intended to only represent the number of workers as is incorrectly quoted today.
Because of the nature of illegal immigration only the nearest estimates are possible. Illegal immigration generally falls into one of two categories: those who entered the country illegally and those who were admitted legally as visitors or on temporary work status and overstayed their visa. The legal status of non-citizens is not routinely ascertained in censuses or surveys with sample sizes sufficient for making accurate national population estimates. An alien registration program at the INS, requiring all resident aliens to report their status annually was discontinued by Congress in 1981. It is unrealistic to expect the Census Bureau to locate the majority of illegal immigrants in the country, nor is it realistic to expect illegal immigrants to fill out census forms. By not revealing their legal status and other personal information, they seek to avoid coming to the government‘s attention. To compound the problem, government officials and researchers often underestimate the effectiveness of the communication networks and the scale of documentation fraud among the illegal immigrant population. The following article highlights how the government has failed to address document fraud.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/back302.html
In spite of these limitations, the Census Bureau did develop some estimates of their own. Their estimates at the time of the 2000 Census indicated that the illegal immigration population was about 8 million. Using this number, it can be reasonably estimated that the illegal-alien population grew by about half a million a year in the 1990s. This estimate is derived from a draft report given to the House Immigration Subcommittee by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) that estimated the illegal population was 3.5 million in 1990. For the illegal population to have reached 8 million by 2000, the net increase had to be 400,000 to 500,000 per year during the 1990's. The Census Bureau currently estimates a net increase of 500,000 illegal immigrants annually and a current population of about 10.5 million. This number represents one of the lower estimates and is disputed by many in the industry.
In a document by The Pew Hispanic Center, “Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population“, March 2005. They estimated about 11.1 million illegal aliens the previous year and 11.5 to 12 million as of March 2006. The March 2006 estimate found that illegal immigrants have a total of about 3.1 million children who were born in the U.S, and are now U.S. citizens, other sources place this number at 5 million. The report is provided here.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=44
On the high end of the spectrum are some private groups that randomly select single sources of data, such as an interview with a border patrol agent or with one elected official. Those sources have placed the numbers around 30 million. Until more data is provided, ImmigrationCounters.com does not yet side with the 30 million figure, yet notes that it may indeed be that high.
ImmigrationCounters.com subscribes to estimates from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of 700,000 per year who enter illegally (includes children) or are visa overstay fugitives. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates 700,000-800,000 per year http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/44.pdf . We also side with an independent report from Bear Stearns, “The Underground Labor Force Is Rising To The Surface," January 3, 2005. This report estimates the number to be around 20 million based on ancillary sources of data that provide evidence the rate of growth is much greater than the Census Bureau estimated. The Bear Stearns report is provided here.
http://www.bearstearns.com/bscportal/pdfs/underground.pdf
http://www.usdoj.gov/archive/ag/testimony/2002/071102agtestimony.htm
The Congressional Budget Office projects 700-900K Illegal Immigrants entering annually and 70 million in the next 20 years.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back606transcript.html
FY2006 - USDOJ saw 317,000 Removal Procedings. Removal procedings and actual deportations are separate figures: http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/statspub/fy06syb.pdf
Border Patrol Agents place number of illegal immigrants closer to 20M: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/features/0807-01/0807-01edit.htm
Note: In FY2006, ICE increased in the number of deportations to 185,431. This counter will be lowered by this amount on 1 September 2007. The report is provided here:
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/about/ICE-06AR.pdf
Counter Data: Department of Homeland Security and Bear Stearns Report, Increase of 700,000 per year. 700k /12 months = 58,333 per month = 1,944 per day = 81 per hr = 1.35 per minute = .02 per second. Beginning Jan 05 to June 06 = 291,665. Starting number 20,291,665 and update at 1.35 per minute or .02 per second. Clock start date is 1 June 06.
Other Than Mexican (OTM) counter. The projected number of illegal immigrants in the country from countries other than Mexico.
85% of OTMs fail to show for court after released. As of July 2005, 465,000 OTMs were released back into the United States after being detained: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/26/national/main711912.shtml
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1162226345208.shtm
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0965.shtm
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/testimony/testimony_0038.shtm
China refuses to take its people back and so American officials tend to simply release them. Some 39,000 illegal immigrants from China are living in the United States despite final deportation orders. http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/0406/041406nj2.htm
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1162293386835.shtm
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0890.shtm
In the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2001, 5,251 non-Mexicans were freed on their own recognizance from Border Patrol custody, according to statistics the agency provided. In fiscal year 2002, that rose to 5,725. Fiscal 2003: 7,972. Fiscal 2004: 34,161. Last year's number included at least 91 illegal immigrants from "special-interest" countries. Releases have soared again this year. With four months left in the fiscal cycle, 70,624 OTMs have been released on their own recognizance - or 70 percent of all non-Mexicans apprehended by the Border Patrol. That includes 50 illegal immigrants from "special-interest" countries, Border Patrol spokesman Salvador Zamora says. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/immigration/otm.htm
Since September 2004, over 20,000 OTMs returned to their native countries. http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33097_20050922.pdf
The number of OTMs attempting to enter the country illegally has increased dramatically. Over 119,000 apprehensions of OTMs in 2005, a 58% increase from 2004 and 220% increase since 2003 while Mexican apprehensions have remained relatively stable over the same period. 87,948 OTMs were arrested in FY2005, 63,494 of them were then released back into the United States: http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33097_20050922.pdf
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/national/070505_otms
75,000 OTMs released fail to appear in court. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44390
The top 25 OTM countries listed on Table 2: http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33097_20050922.pdf
In 2004, over 44,000 OTMs allowed into the United States illegally: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0322/p01s01-uspo.html
http://foros.fox.presidencia.gob.mx/read.php?5,136475
In the first eight months of FY2005, over 70,000 OTMs caught trying to enter the country illegally. Fewer than 15% released on bond or their own recognizance show up for court: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162199,00.html
More than 70,000 OTMs have entered the US from October 04 to July 05: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/national/070505_otms
http://wwwc.house.gov/reyes/news_detail.asp?id=842
Mexican nationals caught illegally trying to enter the country are bused back to the border if they do not have a criminal record. OTMs, however, are sent to ICE detention centers, where they are released into the U.S. public if they do not have a felony conviction and do not pose a threat to national security. ICE is required by law to release illegal aliens who pose no threat. Those migrants are given a notice to appear in court, but Border Patrol agents call it "a notice to disappear." To date, according to the GovExec.com report, ICE has released about 1 million illegal aliens into the country. Out of that, about 465,000 never showed up for their court hearing, and about 85,000 have criminal records. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/8/223945.shtml
Illegal Aliens from Special Interest Countries (SIC) and State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) Countries. A significant number of OTMs that are apprehended and released each year originate from SIC and SST. From FY 2001 through the first half of FY 2005, 91,516 SIC and SST aliens were apprehended of which 45,000 (49%) were later released. It is not known exactly how many of these SIC and SST aliens were ultimately issued final orders of removal and were actually removed since such data is not tracked by DRO. However, assuming SIC and SST aliens are being removed at the same rate as other apprehended and released aliens, 85 percent of the SIC and SST aliens released who eventually receive final orders of removal will abscond. http://michellemalkin.com/2007/05/01/may-day-open-borders-math/
Rest - http://immigrationcounters.com/datasource.html
Then on to immigration and Biden's potential plans.
If the liberals got their way there will be a massive influx of illegal immigrants into our nation. Some have already started the trek. There's been talk of simply removing the wall or anything that Trump was putting up. Yes, let's announce to the world that anyone can walk in as they please and no limitations in entering our country. I'm also more than confident that those that would bring harm to our nation are also watching this process. Then there was a lot of talk in the past about getting rid of ICE, border agents and more. No need to monitor that border if no wall there. Save money for the new green deal by eliminating all of the above. :rolleyes: Security all the way around our borders will be limited.
And what would the cost be? Saving a few billion dollars that Trump wanted to spend? Or save some yearly funds in protecting our borders? Save that funding & decrease our nations security. Illegal immigrants each cost the American taxpayer about $6,500 apiece. I'm reading that healthcare alone accounts for about $18.5 billion per year? WTF? One year saved would have paid for the entire wall 3x over.
Read down bottom for total costs breakdowns.
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Six Nashville Police Officers Recognized for Evacuating People Before Explosion
Six Nashville police officers have been recognized by the department for evacuating people and saving lives before Friday’s explosion in downtown Nashville.
The following officers were recognized: (https://www.wfla.com/news/national/6-nashville-officers-recognized-for-evacuating-residents-before-explosion/)
Officer Brenna Hosey, who has been with the department for four years
Officer James Luellen, who has been with the department for three years
Officer Michael Sipos, who has been with the department for 16 months
Officer Amanda Topping, who has been with the department for 21 months
Officer James Wells, who has been with the department for 21 months
Sergeant Timothy Miller, who has been with the department for 11 years
An RV exploded in an empty street in downtown Nashville at the intersection of Commerce Street and 2nd Avenue at approximately 6:30 a.m. Friday.
Police stated officers were investigating a shots-fired call when the explosion occurred. Three people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Breitbart News reported that the explosion is believed to have been intentional but meant to limit casualties. However, there were also human remains found at the bombing site, according to the Associated Press: (https://twitter.com/AP/status/1342595801541976065)
https://i.imgur.com/Ir8srnm.png
Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/12/26/six-nashville-police-officers-recognized-evacuating-people-before-explosion/
Nashville Police Chief: Police Were Responding to Shots Fired Call, Came Across RV with Recorded Warning of Blast
During a press conference to provide updates on the explosion in Nashville on Friday, Nashville Police Chief John Drake stated that police responded to a shots fired call, and then “encountered an RV that had a recording saying that a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes.”
Drake said, “This morning, around 5:30 a.m., officers responded to a call for shots fired in the downtown area, specifically 2nd and near Commerce. As officers responded, they encountered an RV that had a recording saying that a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes. Officers, upon hearing that, decided to evacuate the buildings nearby. So, they began knocking on doors, making announcements, having emergency communications communicate with everyone to get people safe. Shortly after that, the RV exploded. We had one officer that was knocked to the ground. Another officer is fine.”
Drake added that the police do not believe there is a risk of any further explosions in the area.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/12/25/nashville-police-chief-police-were-responding-to-shots-fired-call-came-across-rv-with-recorded-warning-of-blast/
Washington Post Warns Joe Biden: ‘Pandemonium at the Border’
The Washington Post has joined the chorus of Joe Biden’s supporters who are warning him not to implement his campaign trail promise to recklessly dismantle President Donald Trump’s hard-earned, pr0-American border reforms.
Biden “must also avoid triggering a new humanitarian crisis at the Mexican border featuring unauthorized Central Americans and Mexicans streaming north,” the Post’s editorial board said in a column on December 24.
The statement continued (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-needs-to-restore-american-values-to-immigration-policy-without-triggering-a-border-surge/2020/12/24/d1b60100-43d7-11eb-975c-d17b8815a66d_story.html):
Any sudden move to abolish [Trump’s] policy without an orderly system to replace it could be read as a green light that would invite more migrants than the U.S. bureaucracy can process. Nor is it reasonable to swiftly revoke the emergency public health order authorizing the summary expulsion of unauthorized migrants at the border, based on the pandemic’s threat.
However, the Post’s editorial board is not worried about fellow Americans’ wages and rents, communities, and schools.
Instead, Jeff Bezos’s employees are worried that border pandemonium could damage Biden’s broader agenda of extracting more workers and consumers from poor foreign countries for his domestic allies on Wall Street. The board wrote, “Make no mistake. … Any hope of building public support for a legislative overhaul of the immigration system, let alone bipartisan backing in Congress, would be blown to pieces by fresh images of pandemonium at the border.”
The Post has outlined that “legislative overhaul” agenda in prior editorials. On November 27, for example, the Post’s board described its mass migration wish list for Biden:
He can increase refugee admissions relatively quickly. … He can immediately stop work on Mr. Trump’s wasteful wall at the southern border. … He can ensure the renewal of work permits and end the threat of deportation for dreamers, and grant reprieves to hundreds of thousands of migrants whose temporary protected status Mr. Trump tried to remove.
It went on to state:
It will take longer to undo the hundreds of rule changes the Trump administration used to neuter legal immigration programs. … As for a pathway to citizenship for more than 10 million unauthorized immigrants, that will require legislation — a daunting prospect as long as Republicans control the Senate.
The Post’s solution for Biden’s dilemma is the same that Biden has offered — to convert a disorderly rush of illegal migrants into an orderly, legal rush of legal immigrants. The editorial board advised Americans on December 24 that “a patient, systematic overhaul of procedures is the best course for the post-pandemic future.”
The vast majority of Americans — including Democrats — want cheap-labor migration stopped so Americans can first compete for the jobs, wages, and economic security in a national labor market that is their birthright.
But the nation’s economic elite — and their progressive allies — favor immigration because it transfers wealth from wage earners to stockholders.
Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/12/26/washington-post-warns-joe-biden-pandemonium-border/
ImmigrationCounters.com provides the key numbers and events related to illegal immigration in the United States. Using the latest government and private sources, research and analysis trending data is factored at their individual rates of increase. For information about the research behind the individual counters clickhere Data Sources. ImmigrationCounters.com supports legal immigration and respect for all humanity yet highlights the significant impact of illegal immigration in America.
Illegal aliens in our country now - 20,106,234
Illegals other than Mexico - 504,106
Monies sent to Mexico since 2006 - 20,014,000
Monies sent to Latin America since 2001 - 213,749,999,000
Cost of Social Services since 1996 - 46,580,000,000
Children of Illegals in public schools - 2,250,665
Cost of illegals K-12 since 1996 - 12,955,000,000
Illegal aliens incarcerated - 151,658,218,750
Cost of incarcerations since 2008 - 655,869
Illegal alien fugitives - 16,518,060,765
Anchor babies since 2002 - 4,812,456
Skilled jobs provided to illegal aliens - 9,704,163
Data Sources
DATA COLLECTION METHODS: This site does not contain any original research, it contains research and data already released to the public so they don't need to mine the numerous reports themselves. Significant effort is made to provide what is believed to be the most reliable data and as such is published in good faith to maintain integrity of data. We find that the data used is sufficiently reliable for the purposes of this site.
The methodology; find the data as far back as available, total to the current date and project the rate of increase. Some counters are formulated with their beginning numbers that date back several years. Others, because older data was not available begin more recently. The beginning year will be noted with each counter data source. If available, trend data from the previous years are used to set the clock update rates.
The data is reviewed periodically yet because of the nature of data related to illegal immigration some information on this site may contain minor inaccuracies. As new data becomes available each counter will be modified. Information may be changed or updated without notice. ImmigrationCounters.com provides the Site as a free source of useful information to the general public. More counters will be added as the data becomes available.
As a result of illegal immigration government agencies have benefited due to growth in their programs to meet the expanding demands of their services. Some businesses are temporarily benefiting from illegal hiring. However, because of the increased costs of social services, law enforcement, lost revenue due to displaced legal hires, lost revenue from tax fraud and remittances, no sound research supports a net financial gain to the country. These costs are shifted over into higher taxes and insurance premiums. Non-profit services provided to illegal immigrants shifts resources that could be used for legal immigrants and citizens. The majority of research finds that illegal immigration is bad for America and often the illegal immigrants themselves. The intent of the immigration laws and that of the nation's founders are being violated on a scale few could have imagined. It is presumptuous for the government to assume it can implement a new and expanded amnesty guest worker program when its been unable or unwilling to manage the existing immigration laws.
This site is not intended to foster hatred or discrimination towards anyone, only to provide information so the public can make informed decisions on their own. The ramifications of illegal immigration goes beyond numbers and money and impacts all aspects of society. This topic is covered in greater detail through the books and links provided.
The public needs to be aware of some of the latest Politically Correct terms or "code words" used by activists, anti-enforcement groups and policy makers to avoid the social stigma of the word "illegal." As follows;
Foreign-Born Workforce, Law Abiding Undocumented, Undocumented Workers, Undocumented Immigrants, Undocumented Aliens, Undocumented Migrants, Unauthorized Population, Unauthorized Workers, Foreign-Born Population, Unauthorized Migrants, First Generation, Non-Citizens.
Activists use of the term "immigrant rights" does not apply to illegal immigrants who have no legal rights in the country, only human rights.
It's also important to realise that because of massive document and I.D. fraud, when an undocumented person is caught they're actually some of the most documented people in the world, it's just all fraudulent.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN COUNTRY, many more than 10M, many are unemployed or dependents:
Background: The popular myth that there are "10-11M undocumented workers in the country" is misleading, disingenuous and blatantly false. That figure fails to factor in the chain migration unemployed dependent family members (wives, grandparents, migrant children, migrant girlfriends, single mothers, anchor babies), the adult unemployed, those incarcerated, transients and fugitives. After the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was directed by Congress to stop counting in 1981, even the conservative numbers of the 2000 Census Bureau (CB) estimated at that time the total illegal immigration population was about 8 million. That figure was never intended to only represent the number of workers as is incorrectly quoted today.
Because of the nature of illegal immigration only the nearest estimates are possible. Illegal immigration generally falls into one of two categories: those who entered the country illegally and those who were admitted legally as visitors or on temporary work status and overstayed their visa. The legal status of non-citizens is not routinely ascertained in censuses or surveys with sample sizes sufficient for making accurate national population estimates. An alien registration program at the INS, requiring all resident aliens to report their status annually was discontinued by Congress in 1981. It is unrealistic to expect the Census Bureau to locate the majority of illegal immigrants in the country, nor is it realistic to expect illegal immigrants to fill out census forms. By not revealing their legal status and other personal information, they seek to avoid coming to the government‘s attention. To compound the problem, government officials and researchers often underestimate the effectiveness of the communication networks and the scale of documentation fraud among the illegal immigrant population. The following article highlights how the government has failed to address document fraud.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/back302.html
In spite of these limitations, the Census Bureau did develop some estimates of their own. Their estimates at the time of the 2000 Census indicated that the illegal immigration population was about 8 million. Using this number, it can be reasonably estimated that the illegal-alien population grew by about half a million a year in the 1990s. This estimate is derived from a draft report given to the House Immigration Subcommittee by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) that estimated the illegal population was 3.5 million in 1990. For the illegal population to have reached 8 million by 2000, the net increase had to be 400,000 to 500,000 per year during the 1990's. The Census Bureau currently estimates a net increase of 500,000 illegal immigrants annually and a current population of about 10.5 million. This number represents one of the lower estimates and is disputed by many in the industry.
In a document by The Pew Hispanic Center, “Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population“, March 2005. They estimated about 11.1 million illegal aliens the previous year and 11.5 to 12 million as of March 2006. The March 2006 estimate found that illegal immigrants have a total of about 3.1 million children who were born in the U.S, and are now U.S. citizens, other sources place this number at 5 million. The report is provided here.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=44
On the high end of the spectrum are some private groups that randomly select single sources of data, such as an interview with a border patrol agent or with one elected official. Those sources have placed the numbers around 30 million. Until more data is provided, ImmigrationCounters.com does not yet side with the 30 million figure, yet notes that it may indeed be that high.
ImmigrationCounters.com subscribes to estimates from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of 700,000 per year who enter illegally (includes children) or are visa overstay fugitives. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates 700,000-800,000 per year http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/44.pdf . We also side with an independent report from Bear Stearns, “The Underground Labor Force Is Rising To The Surface," January 3, 2005. This report estimates the number to be around 20 million based on ancillary sources of data that provide evidence the rate of growth is much greater than the Census Bureau estimated. The Bear Stearns report is provided here.
http://www.bearstearns.com/bscportal/pdfs/underground.pdf
http://www.usdoj.gov/archive/ag/testimony/2002/071102agtestimony.htm
The Congressional Budget Office projects 700-900K Illegal Immigrants entering annually and 70 million in the next 20 years.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back606transcript.html
FY2006 - USDOJ saw 317,000 Removal Procedings. Removal procedings and actual deportations are separate figures: http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/statspub/fy06syb.pdf
Border Patrol Agents place number of illegal immigrants closer to 20M: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/features/0807-01/0807-01edit.htm
Note: In FY2006, ICE increased in the number of deportations to 185,431. This counter will be lowered by this amount on 1 September 2007. The report is provided here:
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/about/ICE-06AR.pdf
Counter Data: Department of Homeland Security and Bear Stearns Report, Increase of 700,000 per year. 700k /12 months = 58,333 per month = 1,944 per day = 81 per hr = 1.35 per minute = .02 per second. Beginning Jan 05 to June 06 = 291,665. Starting number 20,291,665 and update at 1.35 per minute or .02 per second. Clock start date is 1 June 06.
Other Than Mexican (OTM) counter. The projected number of illegal immigrants in the country from countries other than Mexico.
85% of OTMs fail to show for court after released. As of July 2005, 465,000 OTMs were released back into the United States after being detained: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/26/national/main711912.shtml
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1162226345208.shtm
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0965.shtm
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/testimony/testimony_0038.shtm
China refuses to take its people back and so American officials tend to simply release them. Some 39,000 illegal immigrants from China are living in the United States despite final deportation orders. http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/0406/041406nj2.htm
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1162293386835.shtm
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0890.shtm
In the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2001, 5,251 non-Mexicans were freed on their own recognizance from Border Patrol custody, according to statistics the agency provided. In fiscal year 2002, that rose to 5,725. Fiscal 2003: 7,972. Fiscal 2004: 34,161. Last year's number included at least 91 illegal immigrants from "special-interest" countries. Releases have soared again this year. With four months left in the fiscal cycle, 70,624 OTMs have been released on their own recognizance - or 70 percent of all non-Mexicans apprehended by the Border Patrol. That includes 50 illegal immigrants from "special-interest" countries, Border Patrol spokesman Salvador Zamora says. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/immigration/otm.htm
Since September 2004, over 20,000 OTMs returned to their native countries. http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33097_20050922.pdf
The number of OTMs attempting to enter the country illegally has increased dramatically. Over 119,000 apprehensions of OTMs in 2005, a 58% increase from 2004 and 220% increase since 2003 while Mexican apprehensions have remained relatively stable over the same period. 87,948 OTMs were arrested in FY2005, 63,494 of them were then released back into the United States: http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33097_20050922.pdf
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/national/070505_otms
75,000 OTMs released fail to appear in court. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44390
The top 25 OTM countries listed on Table 2: http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33097_20050922.pdf
In 2004, over 44,000 OTMs allowed into the United States illegally: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0322/p01s01-uspo.html
http://foros.fox.presidencia.gob.mx/read.php?5,136475
In the first eight months of FY2005, over 70,000 OTMs caught trying to enter the country illegally. Fewer than 15% released on bond or their own recognizance show up for court: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162199,00.html
More than 70,000 OTMs have entered the US from October 04 to July 05: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/national/070505_otms
http://wwwc.house.gov/reyes/news_detail.asp?id=842
Mexican nationals caught illegally trying to enter the country are bused back to the border if they do not have a criminal record. OTMs, however, are sent to ICE detention centers, where they are released into the U.S. public if they do not have a felony conviction and do not pose a threat to national security. ICE is required by law to release illegal aliens who pose no threat. Those migrants are given a notice to appear in court, but Border Patrol agents call it "a notice to disappear." To date, according to the GovExec.com report, ICE has released about 1 million illegal aliens into the country. Out of that, about 465,000 never showed up for their court hearing, and about 85,000 have criminal records. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/8/223945.shtml
Illegal Aliens from Special Interest Countries (SIC) and State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) Countries. A significant number of OTMs that are apprehended and released each year originate from SIC and SST. From FY 2001 through the first half of FY 2005, 91,516 SIC and SST aliens were apprehended of which 45,000 (49%) were later released. It is not known exactly how many of these SIC and SST aliens were ultimately issued final orders of removal and were actually removed since such data is not tracked by DRO. However, assuming SIC and SST aliens are being removed at the same rate as other apprehended and released aliens, 85 percent of the SIC and SST aliens released who eventually receive final orders of removal will abscond. http://michellemalkin.com/2007/05/01/may-day-open-borders-math/
Rest - http://immigrationcounters.com/datasource.html