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An average of 25 people in America are killed each day by criminal aliens - thirteen people are killed by 1st and 2nd degree murder, and twelve persons are killed by negligent homicide (i.e. drunk driving, etc.)
Source: Congressman Steve King (R-IA), 2006.
21 percent of laborers at day labor centers eventually acquired documents to legally reside in the United States; the vast majority of 79 percent of such day laborers are in the United States illegally.
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Less than 6 percent of laborers at day labor centers entered the United States with legal documentation (i.e., legally entered U.S.).
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Reduction in average annual earnings by American workers due to immigrant labor: 4 to 6 percent.
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Number of illegal immigration-related arrests at worksites by U.S. Immigration Authorities, 1997-2005 (Fiscal Year: Worksite Arrests)
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1997: 17,554
1998: 13,914
1999: 2,849
2000:  
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Number of notices of intent to fine employers hiring illegal workers by U.S. Immigration Authorities, 1997-2005 (Fiscal Year: Notices of Intent to Fine)
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1997: 865
1998: 1,023
1999:  
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The U.S. Border Patrol, by its own admission, catches only 1 in every 5 persons who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexican border. Ranchers along the Southern border contend that ratio is actually 1 in every 10 illegal border crossers.
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The U.S. Border Patrol estimates that 800,000 illegal aliens crossed U.S. Borders in the first 10 months of 2001 (January through October). Ranchers along the Southern border estimate that figure to be 1.5 million.
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Many illegal immigrants from the Middle East pay coyotes (human smugglers) from $30,000 to $50,000 to illegally cross into the U.S. from Mexico.
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15 known terrorists have been arrested entering the United States from Canada since 1995 (as of 2003).
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Between 2,000 and 5,000 terrorist operatives are said to be in the United States, many of whom are hiding in foreign immigrant communities, along with illegal aliens for which the U.S. government cannot account.
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300,000 aliens in the United States, including 6,000 from countries that support terrorism, have been ordered deported but have yet to be processed or located (as of 2003).
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62% of U.S. Border Patrol Agents believe the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security could be doing either somewhat more or a lot more to stop potential terrorists and protect the country. Also, 44% of the agents believe the U.S. borders are no more secure than i
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The total length of the border between the United States and Mexico is 1,952 miles (3,141 km).
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An average of 962,000 legal immigrants have entered the United States each year since 1990.
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Fewer than 15 percent of foreign nationals ordered to an immigration hearing ever appear at the hearing.
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The total length of the border between the Continental United States (i.e., excluding Alaska) and Canada is 3,985 miles (6,414 km). The entire U.S.-Canada border, including Alaska, is 5525 miles (8891 km) long.
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Total number of illegal immigrants residing in the United States may be as high as 20 million people (as of Jan. 2005).
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Total number of illegal entries into the United States (as of Jan. 2005): up to 3 million per year.
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12 to 15 million undocumented (illegal) immigrants are employed in the United States (as of Jan. 2005), a figure which represents 8 percent of the total U.S. workforce.
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Public costs of health care, retirement funding, education and law enforcement due to illegal immigrant labor amounts to $30 billion per year.
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20 billion dollars were sent by Mexican immigrants residing in the United States back to Mexico in 2005 (i.e., not invested in U.S. economy).
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Mexico's Largest Sources of Foreign Income (as of 2006):
(1) Petroleum
(2) Remittances from Mexican nationals living in the United States
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The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has only 18 fugitive operations squads charged with hunting down 80,000 criminal aliens and more than 320,000 foreign nationals who were ordered deported but disappeared.
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Illegal aliens are estimated to comprise more than 25 percent of the country's total inmate population in federal, state and local prisons, per the U.S. Justice Departments Office of Inspector General.
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In Los Angeles, more than 90 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants are for illegal aliens, and about 65 percent of the city's fugitive felony warrants involve illegals.
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About 40,000 illegal aliens are being held in the federal prison system nationwide. Illegals represent the fastest-growing segment of the prison population, and each inmate costs taxpayers about $21,000 a year to house, per the U.S. Justice Department.
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Although U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nationwide detain as many as 400 criminal aliens and absconders (those ordered deported but whom disappeared) every day, nearly equal numbers of new fugitive aliens are added daily to the list.
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Nearly half of the 48 al Qaeda terrorists tied to violent acts in the United States between 1993 and 2001 committed significant immigration-law violations prior to those events, but were never detained or deported.
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Taxpayers each year spend more than $7 billion to educate the children of illegal aliens, $1 billion for health care and emergency treatment, and nearly $3 billion to detain illegal aliens in state and local jails.
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From 1994 to 2003, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) assessed $34.5 million in fines against employers who broke the law by hiring illegal aliens, however only $14.5 million of the fines was collected. In other words, for every $1 in
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The federal Immigration Reform and Control Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1986, granted amnesty (permanent legal status) to 2.7 million illegal aliens.
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The federal Immigration Reform and Control Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1986, contained increased enforcement and penalty policies aimed at ending illegal immigration; nevertheless, the illegal alien population in the United States is possibly quad
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There are as many as 80 different documents a prospective employee can present to an employer that authorizes a person to work, all of which can be easily counterfeited.
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Middle Easterners with possible terrorist ties have been detained after entering the United States from Mexico, but later released for lack of jail space.
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Every day, more than 4,000 illegal aliens walk across the 375-mile border between Arizona and Mexico, the busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., without any searches for weapons or photo-ID checks.
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An estimated 3 million illegal aliens flood into the U.S. in a year (as of 2004) roughly 3 times the number of immigrants who come to the U.S. by legal means.
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From October, 2003 through Aug. 25, 2004, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 1.1 million illegals in all its operations around the U.S.; but for every person it picks up, at least three make it into the country safely.
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A small but sharply growing number of those illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border come from countries with large populations hostile to the U.S. Local law officers, ranchers and others have encountered intruders not just from Latin America, but also
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Law-enforcement authorities believe the mass movement of illegals, wherever they are from, offers the perfect cover for terrorists seeking to enter the U.S., especially since tighter controls have been imposed at airports.
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Approximately 9,900 U.S. Border Patrol agents were assigned to the 1,951-mile U.S.-Mexican border as of September, 2004 [i.e., roughly an average of only 5 agents per mile of border].
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Since the U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, it has been a crime to hire illegal aliens. This Act provided that employers could be fined up to $10,000 for every illegal alien they hired, and repeat offenders could be sen
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The U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (predecessor to Immigration and Customs Enforcement) program of sanctions targeting employers of illegal aliens dropped more than 70% from 1992 to 2002:
(Year: Number of Employer Fines)
1992: 7,05
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The number of arrests on job sites by the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (predecessor to Immigration and Customs Enforcement) with respect to illegal aliens declined [by more than 94%] from 1992 to 2002:
(Year: Number of Arrests)
1992
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The Mexican government has acknowledged that some 18 million Mexican citizens are now living in the United States illegally (as of 2006).
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68 percent of voters think immigration levels are too high, while just 2 percent think it is too low.
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In Los Angeles, 95% of outstanding homicide warrants are for illegal aliens, likewise for 66% of fugitive felony warrants.
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Final orders issued by the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (predecessor to Immigration and Customs Enforcement) levying fines for immigration-law violations plunged 99% from 1992 to 2002:
(Year: Final Orders Issuing Fines)
1992: 1,06
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All forms of immigration, by increasing the labor supply from 1980 to 2000, reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700, or roughly 4%. African Americans and native-born Hispanics pay the steepest price, because they a
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In just 10 months (from Oct. 1, 2003 to July 20, 2004), the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector alone stopped 9,051 persons crossing into the country illegally who had criminal records in the U.S. (378 with active warrants for their arrest), meaning they c
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Of the 400,000 illegal aliens who have been ordered to be deported, 80,000 have criminal records and the agency in charge, U.S. Homeland Security Dept., does not know the whereabouts of any of them, criminal or noncriminal, including those from countrie
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At least 4 million people who arrived in the U.S. legally on temporary work, tourist or education visas have decided to ignore immigration laws and stay permanently. The U.S. Homeland Security Dept. has little idea where these individuals are.
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Of the illegal aliens from countries supporting terrorism who had been ordered to be deported, only 6% of those not already in custody were actually removed. Some examples (as of 2004):
(Country of Origin: Number with final orders for removal actua
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An investigation by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Inspector General revealed failings of the federal catch and release program that allows illegals, including those with arrest records, to go free while awaiting a court hearing of 204 aliens
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With respect to aliens whose requests for asylum are rejected and who are ordered to be deported, only 3% are ultimately located and deported, per the U.S. Justice Department, Office of Inspector General.
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In the 1990s, half a dozen aliens applied for asylum before committing terrorist acts. Among them: Ahmad Ajaj and Ramzi Yousef, who entered the country in 1991 and 1992, respectively, seeking asylum. Ajaj left the U.S., returned in 1992 with a phony pass
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More than 4,000 people from countries identified by the State Department as terrorism sponsors or national security concerns (Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, North Korea, China, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia) were apprehended
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The 19 hijackers responsible for carrying out the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks possessed 364 aliases and 63 drivers licenses at the time of the attacks.
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Of the 19 terrorists responsible for carrying out the September 11, 2001 attacks, 8 were registered to vote in the United States, and 3 were in the country illegally.
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In one-fifth of the United States, any illegal alien can go to a DMV and obtain a de facto national identification card, in the form of a driver's license, allowing them to move freely within our country, obtain additional drivers' licenses, go to work, r
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2,973 people died from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (not including the 19 terrorists). 2,749 died in the World Trade Center attacks in New York City (including 343 fire and rescue workers responding to the disaster), 184 died in the attack at
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55,000 illegal immigrants in prison, more than half of which are in California, had been arrested a total of 460,000 times, about eight arrests each. More than a quarter of the arrests were for serious crimes ranging from burglary to rape to homicide.
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There are an estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants in the United States under deportation orders who neglected to show up for the court-ordered ride home, 85,000 of which are convicted felons.
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A majority of Latinos in the United States, 57 percent, believe immigrants have to speak English to be part of American society, while 41 percent say they do not.
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The U.S. Border Patrol apprehends 150,000 illegal aliens every month (1.8 million annually), but by the Border Patrols own estimates, some 3 to 5 illegal aliens succeed in entering the U.S. for every one that is apprehended.
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53 % of voters feel immigration is either their most important issue or one of their top 3 issues, while just 8 percent said it was not at all important.
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70 percent of voters say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who wanted to double the level of legal immigration.
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Among voters, enforcement approaches with no increase in legal immigration are the most popular policy option 44% want enforcement that causes illegals to go home; 20% want large-scale deportations; and just 31% support legalization.
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More than 70 percent of voters nationally agree that there are plenty of Americans to do low-wage jobs that require relatively little education, employers just need to pay higher wages and treat workers better to attract Americans.
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Three out of four voters in the nation agree that the reason we have illegal immigration is that past enforcement efforts have before grossly inadequate.
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Americans with college degrees are often competing against college-educated foreigner workers who will work for only 10% to 25% of the wages Americans are paid.
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Outsourcing (moving American jobs to foreign countries) will cause the loss of an estimated minimum of 14 million U.S. jobs by 2015.
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Approximately 11,000 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents patrol nearly 6,000 miles of international border the United States shares with Mexico and Canada [an average of only about 1.8 agents per mile of border].
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During 2005, Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 1.2 million illegal aliens, including 165,000 from countries other than Mexico, and 650 from special interest countries (nations designated by the intelligence community as countries that could
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During FY 2005, federal agencies seized 1,129,275 pounds of cocaine and 6,866,465 pounds of marijuana at U.S. borders. Federal law enforcement estimates that only 10 to 20 percent of drugs smuggled across the borders are seized; therefore as much as 5.6
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Not all illegal aliens are crossing into the United States to find work. Dangerous criminals that have been forced to leave their home countries due to their criminal activity come across the borders seeking refuge in the United States.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations have revealed that aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the United States.
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Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist group, have already entered the United States across the Southwest (U.S.-Mexico) border.
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Each year, hundreds of illegal aliens from countries known to harbor terrorists or promote terrorism are routinely encountered and apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.
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Mexican drug cartels wield substantial control over the U.S.-Mexican border. Law enforcement agree that very little crosses the respective cartel border territories without cartel approval and financial remuneration. These highly sophisticated crimina
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Human smuggling networks that operate along the Southwest border cannot move people across the Mexican drug cartel controlled corridors without paying a fee. The typical Mexican illegal alien pays $1,200 to $2,500. Foreign nationals are often charged an
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Approximately 90 percent of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members in the United States are foreign-born illegal aliens who depend upon the Texas-Mexico border smuggling corridor to support their criminal operations. MS-13 members are involved in a va
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From 2004 to 2005, violent incidents against U.S. Border Patrol agents on the U.S.-Mexican border increased 108%. During FY 2006, there were 746 violent incidents against Border Patrol agents, including 173 physical assaults, 46 vehicle assaults, and 43
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U.S. Border Patrol agents are fired upon from across the U.S.-Mexican border and are subject to attacks with automatic weapons while the criminal drug cartels retrieve their contraband. Also, in January 2006, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent
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On January 23, 2006, in Hudspeth County, Texas, individuals dressed in Mexican military uniforms, carrying military-style weapons and using Mexican military vehicles [suspected to be active members of the Mexican military], entered inside the United State
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U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement reports and public records show that sex offenders comprise 2% of illegal immigrants apprehended. Based on this 2% figure and an illegal immigrant population of 12 million, both of which figures are conservative,
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The U.S. Border Patrol caught the following numbers of illegal aliens other than Mexican (OTMs), most of which were apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border: FY 2003 30,147; FY 2004 44,614; FY 2005 165,178; FY 2006 108,025. The alarming increa
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FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed that individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic-sounding names, obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish, and pretending to be Hisp
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High-ranking Mexican officials have revealed that Islamic terrorist organizations have sought to establish a presence in Mexico, and are using Mexico as a refuge.
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In July, 2006, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officially ended its catch and release program in which illegal aliens crossing the border were not detained but instead released into the general U.S. population and given a notice to appear for a
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On September 29, 2006, the U.S. Congress passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorized construction of 700 miles of 2-layered reinforced fencing along the U.S.Mexico border with prioritized placement at critical, highly populated areas. On Octob
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Today there were far fewer jobs in areas perfect for low-skilled immigrant labor (agriculture, manufacturing and mining) than around 1900, and the number declines each year. However, immigrants remain predominantly low-skilled and work in low-wage occupa
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U.S. Census Bureau projections indicate that in 50 years, if the current level of immigration continues, there will be 80 million more people living in the United States than if immigration were reduced to 300,000 a year.
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In October of 2006, the International Atomic Energy Agency told the London Times that smugglers have been caught 300 times in the past 4 years trying to sneak radioactive material, which could be used to make a nuclear dirty bomb, over the border into the
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27 percent of all inmates in federal prisons are criminal aliens (noncitizens convicted of crimes while in the United States).
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Country of citizenship for criminal aliens incarcerated in federal prisons (year-end 2004):
Mexico: 63%
Columbia: 7%
Dominican Republic: 7%
Jamaica: 4%
Cuba: 3%
El Salvador: 2%
Honduras: 1%
Haiti: 1%
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Country of birth for foreign-born criminal inmates in the 5 states (Arizona, California, Florida, New York and Texas) with the most criminal aliens (80% of all criminal aliens in state prisons nationwide) as of mid-year 2004:
Mexico: 58%
Domini
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The federal cost of incarcerating criminal aliens (noncitizens convicted of crimes while in this country) totaled $5.8 billion for calendar years 2001 through 2004. The direct federal (U.S. Bureau of Prisons) costs are estimated at $4.2 billion, and fede
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Five states Arizona, California, Florida, New York and Texas incarcerate about 80 percent of criminal aliens (noncitizens convicted of crimes while in this country) in state prisons nationwide. In FY2003 and FY 2003, 4 of these 5 states (excluding Te
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In fiscal year (FY) 2002 [10/1/2001-9/30/2002], the federal government reimbursed all 50 states for incarcerating about 77,000 criminal aliens, and 752 local jurisdictions for incarcerating about 138,000 criminal aliens [for a total of about 215,000 crimi
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Households headed by illegal aliens are estimated to use $2,700 a year more in services than they pay in taxes, creating a total fiscal burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in 2002. If illegal aliens were legalized (amnesty) and able to a
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In 2003, the government of Mexico accepted only 109 of its citizens incarcerated in American prisons back from the United States, even though in California alone, 17,500 prisoners are Mexican nationals, including more than 14,000 illegal aliens.
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In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants and 60 percent of outstanding felony warrants are for illegal aliens.
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60 percent of the uninsured patients in Los Angeles County emergency rooms are not U.S. citizens, and more than half are here illegally. In 2004, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured; that's roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer.
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About 2 million undocumented [illegal] aliens in Los Angeles County alone are crowding emergency rooms for routine medical care, resulting in the Los Angeles County Department of Health having a $1.2 billion deficit. Caring for illegals is siphoning mon
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Between 1993 and 2004, 84 hospitals in California closed their doors forever. Under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA), hospital emergency rooms are required to treat the uninsured, who are often illegal aliens,
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Under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA), any patient, including illegal aliens, coming to a hospital emergency room requesting emergency care must be screened and treated until stabilized for discharge for trans
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Anchor Babies, a term to describe babies born in the United States to illegal alien women, qualify as citizens for welfare benefits, and like anchors dropped to keep boats safely in harbor, they pull their illegal alien parents and siblings into lucrati
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Ambulances from Mexico come to emergency rooms in the United States with indigents because the drivers know that American hospitals must accept patients who come within 250 yards of a hospital, regardless of the patients immigration status or ability to
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The notorious 18th Street Gang has 20,000 members the California Department of Justice deems 60% of the members of this violent street gang to be illegal aliens, but according to the Los Angeles Police Department that figure is 80%.
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Illegal aliens move freely in 'sanctuary cities'. In Los Angeles, San Diego, Stockton, New York, Chicago, Miami, Austin, and Houston, no hospital, physician, city employee, or police officer can report immigration violators to the Dept. of Homeland Secur
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Los Angeles County treats five times as many undocumented [illegal] immigrants as state law requires. 53 percent of the 800,000 annual users of the county's system are uninsured and receive care even though state law does not mandate it. The county healt
Source: Anderson, Troy, "Health audit raises pulse - Report urges cuts in care for illegals", L.A. Daily News, March 30, 2005
Los Angeles County spends about $340 million a year treating undocumented [illegal] immigrants at its health facilities, and could save between $130 million and $138 million a year by discontinuing non-emergency services to them.
Source: Anderson, Troy, "Health audit raises pulse - Report urges cuts in care for illegals", L.A. Daily News, March 30, 2005
1 million (1,000,000) foreign citizens facing immigration proceedings have been released into the general U.S. population, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of those people, 465,000 are fugitive aliens who have been ordered deport
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Based on U.S. Census Bureau data, there are an estimated 1.5 million illegal alien children and an additional 2 million U.S.-born children of illegal aliens in K-12 classrooms across the country. Nationwide costs of educating the children of illegal alien
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About one-third of all illegal aliens employed in the U.S. are working off-the-books, so no direct payroll taxes are collected. Most of the rest are working for very low wages, meaning that tax withholding can cover only a small fraction of the cost of ed
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In 2000, about 8 million of the total 53 million school-age (5-17) children in the U.S. were the offspring of immigrants who had arrived since 1970. This is equal to all of the growth in the school-age population over in the last 20 years.
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Immigration not only increases total education costs, but also increases per-pupil costs as school districts must hire specially trained teachers and institute new programs. Bringing a student with limited English skills to average performance levels requ
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At least 15 million illegal aliens now reside in the United States, having crossed our borders without a health screening. In the past 5 years, over 16,000 new cases of a drug resistant form of tuberculosis, 100,000 cases of hepatitis A and 7,000 new c
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An estimated minimum 1.1 million illegal alien children attend American schools, the great majority of them cannot speak English. Annually, California spends $2.2 billion, Colorado spends $140.6 million, and Georgia spends $230 million to educate illegal
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Currently, more than half of the babies born in California hospital maternity units are anchor babies babies born to illegal alien women that, merely because they were born inside the United States, are considered U.S. citizens and instantly qualify for
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MediCal in 2003 had 760,000 illegal aliens, up from 2002 when there were 470,000. The numbers of immigrants receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a federal grant of money and food stamps, including legal aliens, refugees, and illegals with fraudul
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66 percent of all tuberculosis (TB) cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Many illegals who cross our borders have TB, which had previously largely disappeared from America thanks to excellent hygiene and powerful mod
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Leprosy, which horribly destroys flesh and disfigures faces, was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted, however America has seen more than 7,000 cases of leprosy in the past three years. Illegal aliens and other immigrants br
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9.4 Percent of all persons born in Mexico lived in the United States in 2005.
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Percentage of workers in select specific occupation areas that are unauthorized migrants Illegal aliens workers represent:
36% of insulation workers;
29% of agricultural workers;
29% of roofers;
28% of drywall installers;
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About two-thirds (66%) of the unauthorized [illegal alien] population has been in the United States for 10 years or less. 40% have been in the U.S. for 5 years or less.
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Unauthorized migrants [illegal aliens] make up a large share of all workers in various occupational categories, including 24% of all workers employed in farming occupations, 17% in cleaning, 14% in construction, and 12% in food preparation.
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Unauthorized migrants [illegal aliens] accounted for 30% of the foreign-born population in the United States in 2005.
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56% of all unauthorized migrants [illegal aliens] in the United States came from Mexico. Another 22% came from the rest of Latin America, primarily Central America. Thus, the vast majority of illegal aliens (78%) came from Latin American countries sou
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Those who overstay their visas represent between 25% and 40% of unauthorized migrants [illegal aliens] in the United States.
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In 2005, 14% of Mexican workers were working as part of the U.S. labor force, compared to only 2.5 percent of Canadian workers.
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Remittances sent by Mexican workers working abroad back to Mexico reached more than $20 billion by 2005, the lions share of which came from the United States (i.e., billions not re-invested in the U.S. economy). This figure amounted to 2.8% of th
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From 2000 to 2005, the number of native-born [i.e., American] men who were employed fell by 1.7 million. At the same time, the number of new male immigrant workers increased by 1.9 million.
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Of the 4.1 million new immigrant workers who got jobs in the United States between 2000 and 2005, an estimated 1.4 million to 2.7 million are illegal entrants.
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Based on a population of 12,000,000 illegal immigrants in the United States, and figures from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports and public records showing 2% of illegals apprehended are sex offenders, there are approximately 240,000 illegal
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On average, 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders come across U.S. borders illegally every day.
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Based on an in-depth study of 1,500 illegal immigrant sex offenders, who had a total of 5,999 victims (4 each on average), the estimated 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the U.S. have victimized a total of 960,000 persons.
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Source: Congressman Steve King (R-IA), 2006.
21 percent of laborers at day labor centers eventually acquired documents to legally reside in the United States; the vast majority of 79 percent of such day laborers are in the United States illegally.
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Less than 6 percent of laborers at day labor centers entered the United States with legal documentation (i.e., legally entered U.S.).
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Reduction in average annual earnings by American workers due to immigrant labor: 4 to 6 percent.
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Number of illegal immigration-related arrests at worksites by U.S. Immigration Authorities, 1997-2005 (Fiscal Year: Worksite Arrests)
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1997: 17,554
1998: 13,914
1999: 2,849
2000:  
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Number of notices of intent to fine employers hiring illegal workers by U.S. Immigration Authorities, 1997-2005 (Fiscal Year: Notices of Intent to Fine)
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1997: 865
1998: 1,023
1999:  
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The U.S. Border Patrol, by its own admission, catches only 1 in every 5 persons who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexican border. Ranchers along the Southern border contend that ratio is actually 1 in every 10 illegal border crossers.
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The U.S. Border Patrol estimates that 800,000 illegal aliens crossed U.S. Borders in the first 10 months of 2001 (January through October). Ranchers along the Southern border estimate that figure to be 1.5 million.
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Many illegal immigrants from the Middle East pay coyotes (human smugglers) from $30,000 to $50,000 to illegally cross into the U.S. from Mexico.
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15 known terrorists have been arrested entering the United States from Canada since 1995 (as of 2003).
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Between 2,000 and 5,000 terrorist operatives are said to be in the United States, many of whom are hiding in foreign immigrant communities, along with illegal aliens for which the U.S. government cannot account.
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300,000 aliens in the United States, including 6,000 from countries that support terrorism, have been ordered deported but have yet to be processed or located (as of 2003).
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62% of U.S. Border Patrol Agents believe the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security could be doing either somewhat more or a lot more to stop potential terrorists and protect the country. Also, 44% of the agents believe the U.S. borders are no more secure than i
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The total length of the border between the United States and Mexico is 1,952 miles (3,141 km).
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An average of 962,000 legal immigrants have entered the United States each year since 1990.
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Fewer than 15 percent of foreign nationals ordered to an immigration hearing ever appear at the hearing.
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The total length of the border between the Continental United States (i.e., excluding Alaska) and Canada is 3,985 miles (6,414 km). The entire U.S.-Canada border, including Alaska, is 5525 miles (8891 km) long.
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Total number of illegal immigrants residing in the United States may be as high as 20 million people (as of Jan. 2005).
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Total number of illegal entries into the United States (as of Jan. 2005): up to 3 million per year.
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12 to 15 million undocumented (illegal) immigrants are employed in the United States (as of Jan. 2005), a figure which represents 8 percent of the total U.S. workforce.
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Public costs of health care, retirement funding, education and law enforcement due to illegal immigrant labor amounts to $30 billion per year.
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20 billion dollars were sent by Mexican immigrants residing in the United States back to Mexico in 2005 (i.e., not invested in U.S. economy).
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Mexico's Largest Sources of Foreign Income (as of 2006):
(1) Petroleum
(2) Remittances from Mexican nationals living in the United States
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The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has only 18 fugitive operations squads charged with hunting down 80,000 criminal aliens and more than 320,000 foreign nationals who were ordered deported but disappeared.
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Illegal aliens are estimated to comprise more than 25 percent of the country's total inmate population in federal, state and local prisons, per the U.S. Justice Departments Office of Inspector General.
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In Los Angeles, more than 90 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants are for illegal aliens, and about 65 percent of the city's fugitive felony warrants involve illegals.
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About 40,000 illegal aliens are being held in the federal prison system nationwide. Illegals represent the fastest-growing segment of the prison population, and each inmate costs taxpayers about $21,000 a year to house, per the U.S. Justice Department.
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Although U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nationwide detain as many as 400 criminal aliens and absconders (those ordered deported but whom disappeared) every day, nearly equal numbers of new fugitive aliens are added daily to the list.
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Nearly half of the 48 al Qaeda terrorists tied to violent acts in the United States between 1993 and 2001 committed significant immigration-law violations prior to those events, but were never detained or deported.
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Taxpayers each year spend more than $7 billion to educate the children of illegal aliens, $1 billion for health care and emergency treatment, and nearly $3 billion to detain illegal aliens in state and local jails.
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From 1994 to 2003, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) assessed $34.5 million in fines against employers who broke the law by hiring illegal aliens, however only $14.5 million of the fines was collected. In other words, for every $1 in
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The federal Immigration Reform and Control Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1986, granted amnesty (permanent legal status) to 2.7 million illegal aliens.
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The federal Immigration Reform and Control Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1986, contained increased enforcement and penalty policies aimed at ending illegal immigration; nevertheless, the illegal alien population in the United States is possibly quad
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There are as many as 80 different documents a prospective employee can present to an employer that authorizes a person to work, all of which can be easily counterfeited.
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Middle Easterners with possible terrorist ties have been detained after entering the United States from Mexico, but later released for lack of jail space.
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Every day, more than 4,000 illegal aliens walk across the 375-mile border between Arizona and Mexico, the busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., without any searches for weapons or photo-ID checks.
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An estimated 3 million illegal aliens flood into the U.S. in a year (as of 2004) roughly 3 times the number of immigrants who come to the U.S. by legal means.
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From October, 2003 through Aug. 25, 2004, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 1.1 million illegals in all its operations around the U.S.; but for every person it picks up, at least three make it into the country safely.
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A small but sharply growing number of those illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border come from countries with large populations hostile to the U.S. Local law officers, ranchers and others have encountered intruders not just from Latin America, but also
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Law-enforcement authorities believe the mass movement of illegals, wherever they are from, offers the perfect cover for terrorists seeking to enter the U.S., especially since tighter controls have been imposed at airports.
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Approximately 9,900 U.S. Border Patrol agents were assigned to the 1,951-mile U.S.-Mexican border as of September, 2004 [i.e., roughly an average of only 5 agents per mile of border].
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Since the U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, it has been a crime to hire illegal aliens. This Act provided that employers could be fined up to $10,000 for every illegal alien they hired, and repeat offenders could be sen
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The U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (predecessor to Immigration and Customs Enforcement) program of sanctions targeting employers of illegal aliens dropped more than 70% from 1992 to 2002:
(Year: Number of Employer Fines)
1992: 7,05
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The number of arrests on job sites by the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (predecessor to Immigration and Customs Enforcement) with respect to illegal aliens declined [by more than 94%] from 1992 to 2002:
(Year: Number of Arrests)
1992
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The Mexican government has acknowledged that some 18 million Mexican citizens are now living in the United States illegally (as of 2006).
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68 percent of voters think immigration levels are too high, while just 2 percent think it is too low.
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In Los Angeles, 95% of outstanding homicide warrants are for illegal aliens, likewise for 66% of fugitive felony warrants.
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Final orders issued by the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (predecessor to Immigration and Customs Enforcement) levying fines for immigration-law violations plunged 99% from 1992 to 2002:
(Year: Final Orders Issuing Fines)
1992: 1,06
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All forms of immigration, by increasing the labor supply from 1980 to 2000, reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700, or roughly 4%. African Americans and native-born Hispanics pay the steepest price, because they a
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In just 10 months (from Oct. 1, 2003 to July 20, 2004), the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector alone stopped 9,051 persons crossing into the country illegally who had criminal records in the U.S. (378 with active warrants for their arrest), meaning they c
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Of the 400,000 illegal aliens who have been ordered to be deported, 80,000 have criminal records and the agency in charge, U.S. Homeland Security Dept., does not know the whereabouts of any of them, criminal or noncriminal, including those from countrie
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At least 4 million people who arrived in the U.S. legally on temporary work, tourist or education visas have decided to ignore immigration laws and stay permanently. The U.S. Homeland Security Dept. has little idea where these individuals are.
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Of the illegal aliens from countries supporting terrorism who had been ordered to be deported, only 6% of those not already in custody were actually removed. Some examples (as of 2004):
(Country of Origin: Number with final orders for removal actua
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An investigation by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Inspector General revealed failings of the federal catch and release program that allows illegals, including those with arrest records, to go free while awaiting a court hearing of 204 aliens
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With respect to aliens whose requests for asylum are rejected and who are ordered to be deported, only 3% are ultimately located and deported, per the U.S. Justice Department, Office of Inspector General.
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In the 1990s, half a dozen aliens applied for asylum before committing terrorist acts. Among them: Ahmad Ajaj and Ramzi Yousef, who entered the country in 1991 and 1992, respectively, seeking asylum. Ajaj left the U.S., returned in 1992 with a phony pass
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More than 4,000 people from countries identified by the State Department as terrorism sponsors or national security concerns (Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, North Korea, China, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia) were apprehended
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The 19 hijackers responsible for carrying out the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks possessed 364 aliases and 63 drivers licenses at the time of the attacks.
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Of the 19 terrorists responsible for carrying out the September 11, 2001 attacks, 8 were registered to vote in the United States, and 3 were in the country illegally.
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In one-fifth of the United States, any illegal alien can go to a DMV and obtain a de facto national identification card, in the form of a driver's license, allowing them to move freely within our country, obtain additional drivers' licenses, go to work, r
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2,973 people died from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (not including the 19 terrorists). 2,749 died in the World Trade Center attacks in New York City (including 343 fire and rescue workers responding to the disaster), 184 died in the attack at
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55,000 illegal immigrants in prison, more than half of which are in California, had been arrested a total of 460,000 times, about eight arrests each. More than a quarter of the arrests were for serious crimes ranging from burglary to rape to homicide.
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There are an estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants in the United States under deportation orders who neglected to show up for the court-ordered ride home, 85,000 of which are convicted felons.
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A majority of Latinos in the United States, 57 percent, believe immigrants have to speak English to be part of American society, while 41 percent say they do not.
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The U.S. Border Patrol apprehends 150,000 illegal aliens every month (1.8 million annually), but by the Border Patrols own estimates, some 3 to 5 illegal aliens succeed in entering the U.S. for every one that is apprehended.
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53 % of voters feel immigration is either their most important issue or one of their top 3 issues, while just 8 percent said it was not at all important.
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70 percent of voters say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who wanted to double the level of legal immigration.
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Among voters, enforcement approaches with no increase in legal immigration are the most popular policy option 44% want enforcement that causes illegals to go home; 20% want large-scale deportations; and just 31% support legalization.
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More than 70 percent of voters nationally agree that there are plenty of Americans to do low-wage jobs that require relatively little education, employers just need to pay higher wages and treat workers better to attract Americans.
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Three out of four voters in the nation agree that the reason we have illegal immigration is that past enforcement efforts have before grossly inadequate.
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Americans with college degrees are often competing against college-educated foreigner workers who will work for only 10% to 25% of the wages Americans are paid.
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Outsourcing (moving American jobs to foreign countries) will cause the loss of an estimated minimum of 14 million U.S. jobs by 2015.
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Approximately 11,000 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents patrol nearly 6,000 miles of international border the United States shares with Mexico and Canada [an average of only about 1.8 agents per mile of border].
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During 2005, Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 1.2 million illegal aliens, including 165,000 from countries other than Mexico, and 650 from special interest countries (nations designated by the intelligence community as countries that could
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During FY 2005, federal agencies seized 1,129,275 pounds of cocaine and 6,866,465 pounds of marijuana at U.S. borders. Federal law enforcement estimates that only 10 to 20 percent of drugs smuggled across the borders are seized; therefore as much as 5.6
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Not all illegal aliens are crossing into the United States to find work. Dangerous criminals that have been forced to leave their home countries due to their criminal activity come across the borders seeking refuge in the United States.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations have revealed that aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the United States.
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Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist group, have already entered the United States across the Southwest (U.S.-Mexico) border.
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Each year, hundreds of illegal aliens from countries known to harbor terrorists or promote terrorism are routinely encountered and apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.
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Mexican drug cartels wield substantial control over the U.S.-Mexican border. Law enforcement agree that very little crosses the respective cartel border territories without cartel approval and financial remuneration. These highly sophisticated crimina
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Human smuggling networks that operate along the Southwest border cannot move people across the Mexican drug cartel controlled corridors without paying a fee. The typical Mexican illegal alien pays $1,200 to $2,500. Foreign nationals are often charged an
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Approximately 90 percent of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members in the United States are foreign-born illegal aliens who depend upon the Texas-Mexico border smuggling corridor to support their criminal operations. MS-13 members are involved in a va
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From 2004 to 2005, violent incidents against U.S. Border Patrol agents on the U.S.-Mexican border increased 108%. During FY 2006, there were 746 violent incidents against Border Patrol agents, including 173 physical assaults, 46 vehicle assaults, and 43
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U.S. Border Patrol agents are fired upon from across the U.S.-Mexican border and are subject to attacks with automatic weapons while the criminal drug cartels retrieve their contraband. Also, in January 2006, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent
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On January 23, 2006, in Hudspeth County, Texas, individuals dressed in Mexican military uniforms, carrying military-style weapons and using Mexican military vehicles [suspected to be active members of the Mexican military], entered inside the United State
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U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement reports and public records show that sex offenders comprise 2% of illegal immigrants apprehended. Based on this 2% figure and an illegal immigrant population of 12 million, both of which figures are conservative,
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The U.S. Border Patrol caught the following numbers of illegal aliens other than Mexican (OTMs), most of which were apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border: FY 2003 30,147; FY 2004 44,614; FY 2005 165,178; FY 2006 108,025. The alarming increa
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FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed that individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic-sounding names, obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish, and pretending to be Hisp
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High-ranking Mexican officials have revealed that Islamic terrorist organizations have sought to establish a presence in Mexico, and are using Mexico as a refuge.
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In July, 2006, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officially ended its catch and release program in which illegal aliens crossing the border were not detained but instead released into the general U.S. population and given a notice to appear for a
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On September 29, 2006, the U.S. Congress passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorized construction of 700 miles of 2-layered reinforced fencing along the U.S.Mexico border with prioritized placement at critical, highly populated areas. On Octob
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Today there were far fewer jobs in areas perfect for low-skilled immigrant labor (agriculture, manufacturing and mining) than around 1900, and the number declines each year. However, immigrants remain predominantly low-skilled and work in low-wage occupa
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U.S. Census Bureau projections indicate that in 50 years, if the current level of immigration continues, there will be 80 million more people living in the United States than if immigration were reduced to 300,000 a year.
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In October of 2006, the International Atomic Energy Agency told the London Times that smugglers have been caught 300 times in the past 4 years trying to sneak radioactive material, which could be used to make a nuclear dirty bomb, over the border into the
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27 percent of all inmates in federal prisons are criminal aliens (noncitizens convicted of crimes while in the United States).
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Country of citizenship for criminal aliens incarcerated in federal prisons (year-end 2004):
Mexico: 63%
Columbia: 7%
Dominican Republic: 7%
Jamaica: 4%
Cuba: 3%
El Salvador: 2%
Honduras: 1%
Haiti: 1%
Guatema
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Country of birth for foreign-born criminal inmates in the 5 states (Arizona, California, Florida, New York and Texas) with the most criminal aliens (80% of all criminal aliens in state prisons nationwide) as of mid-year 2004:
Mexico: 58%
Domini
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The federal cost of incarcerating criminal aliens (noncitizens convicted of crimes while in this country) totaled $5.8 billion for calendar years 2001 through 2004. The direct federal (U.S. Bureau of Prisons) costs are estimated at $4.2 billion, and fede
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Five states Arizona, California, Florida, New York and Texas incarcerate about 80 percent of criminal aliens (noncitizens convicted of crimes while in this country) in state prisons nationwide. In FY2003 and FY 2003, 4 of these 5 states (excluding Te
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In fiscal year (FY) 2002 [10/1/2001-9/30/2002], the federal government reimbursed all 50 states for incarcerating about 77,000 criminal aliens, and 752 local jurisdictions for incarcerating about 138,000 criminal aliens [for a total of about 215,000 crimi
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Households headed by illegal aliens are estimated to use $2,700 a year more in services than they pay in taxes, creating a total fiscal burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in 2002. If illegal aliens were legalized (amnesty) and able to a
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In 2003, the government of Mexico accepted only 109 of its citizens incarcerated in American prisons back from the United States, even though in California alone, 17,500 prisoners are Mexican nationals, including more than 14,000 illegal aliens.
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In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants and 60 percent of outstanding felony warrants are for illegal aliens.
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60 percent of the uninsured patients in Los Angeles County emergency rooms are not U.S. citizens, and more than half are here illegally. In 2004, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured; that's roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer.
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About 2 million undocumented [illegal] aliens in Los Angeles County alone are crowding emergency rooms for routine medical care, resulting in the Los Angeles County Department of Health having a $1.2 billion deficit. Caring for illegals is siphoning mon
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Between 1993 and 2004, 84 hospitals in California closed their doors forever. Under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA), hospital emergency rooms are required to treat the uninsured, who are often illegal aliens,
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Under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA), any patient, including illegal aliens, coming to a hospital emergency room requesting emergency care must be screened and treated until stabilized for discharge for trans
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Anchor Babies, a term to describe babies born in the United States to illegal alien women, qualify as citizens for welfare benefits, and like anchors dropped to keep boats safely in harbor, they pull their illegal alien parents and siblings into lucrati
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Ambulances from Mexico come to emergency rooms in the United States with indigents because the drivers know that American hospitals must accept patients who come within 250 yards of a hospital, regardless of the patients immigration status or ability to
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The notorious 18th Street Gang has 20,000 members the California Department of Justice deems 60% of the members of this violent street gang to be illegal aliens, but according to the Los Angeles Police Department that figure is 80%.
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Illegal aliens move freely in 'sanctuary cities'. In Los Angeles, San Diego, Stockton, New York, Chicago, Miami, Austin, and Houston, no hospital, physician, city employee, or police officer can report immigration violators to the Dept. of Homeland Secur
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Los Angeles County treats five times as many undocumented [illegal] immigrants as state law requires. 53 percent of the 800,000 annual users of the county's system are uninsured and receive care even though state law does not mandate it. The county healt
Source: Anderson, Troy, "Health audit raises pulse - Report urges cuts in care for illegals", L.A. Daily News, March 30, 2005
Los Angeles County spends about $340 million a year treating undocumented [illegal] immigrants at its health facilities, and could save between $130 million and $138 million a year by discontinuing non-emergency services to them.
Source: Anderson, Troy, "Health audit raises pulse - Report urges cuts in care for illegals", L.A. Daily News, March 30, 2005
1 million (1,000,000) foreign citizens facing immigration proceedings have been released into the general U.S. population, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of those people, 465,000 are fugitive aliens who have been ordered deport
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Based on U.S. Census Bureau data, there are an estimated 1.5 million illegal alien children and an additional 2 million U.S.-born children of illegal aliens in K-12 classrooms across the country. Nationwide costs of educating the children of illegal alien
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About one-third of all illegal aliens employed in the U.S. are working off-the-books, so no direct payroll taxes are collected. Most of the rest are working for very low wages, meaning that tax withholding can cover only a small fraction of the cost of ed
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In 2000, about 8 million of the total 53 million school-age (5-17) children in the U.S. were the offspring of immigrants who had arrived since 1970. This is equal to all of the growth in the school-age population over in the last 20 years.
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Immigration not only increases total education costs, but also increases per-pupil costs as school districts must hire specially trained teachers and institute new programs. Bringing a student with limited English skills to average performance levels requ
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At least 15 million illegal aliens now reside in the United States, having crossed our borders without a health screening. In the past 5 years, over 16,000 new cases of a drug resistant form of tuberculosis, 100,000 cases of hepatitis A and 7,000 new c
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An estimated minimum 1.1 million illegal alien children attend American schools, the great majority of them cannot speak English. Annually, California spends $2.2 billion, Colorado spends $140.6 million, and Georgia spends $230 million to educate illegal
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Currently, more than half of the babies born in California hospital maternity units are anchor babies babies born to illegal alien women that, merely because they were born inside the United States, are considered U.S. citizens and instantly qualify for
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MediCal in 2003 had 760,000 illegal aliens, up from 2002 when there were 470,000. The numbers of immigrants receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a federal grant of money and food stamps, including legal aliens, refugees, and illegals with fraudul
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66 percent of all tuberculosis (TB) cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Many illegals who cross our borders have TB, which had previously largely disappeared from America thanks to excellent hygiene and powerful mod
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Leprosy, which horribly destroys flesh and disfigures faces, was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted, however America has seen more than 7,000 cases of leprosy in the past three years. Illegal aliens and other immigrants br
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9.4 Percent of all persons born in Mexico lived in the United States in 2005.
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Percentage of workers in select specific occupation areas that are unauthorized migrants Illegal aliens workers represent:
36% of insulation workers;
29% of agricultural workers;
29% of roofers;
28% of drywall installers;
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About two-thirds (66%) of the unauthorized [illegal alien] population has been in the United States for 10 years or less. 40% have been in the U.S. for 5 years or less.
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Unauthorized migrants [illegal aliens] make up a large share of all workers in various occupational categories, including 24% of all workers employed in farming occupations, 17% in cleaning, 14% in construction, and 12% in food preparation.
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Unauthorized migrants [illegal aliens] accounted for 30% of the foreign-born population in the United States in 2005.
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56% of all unauthorized migrants [illegal aliens] in the United States came from Mexico. Another 22% came from the rest of Latin America, primarily Central America. Thus, the vast majority of illegal aliens (78%) came from Latin American countries sou
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Those who overstay their visas represent between 25% and 40% of unauthorized migrants [illegal aliens] in the United States.
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In 2005, 14% of Mexican workers were working as part of the U.S. labor force, compared to only 2.5 percent of Canadian workers.
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Remittances sent by Mexican workers working abroad back to Mexico reached more than $20 billion by 2005, the lions share of which came from the United States (i.e., billions not re-invested in the U.S. economy). This figure amounted to 2.8% of th
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From 2000 to 2005, the number of native-born [i.e., American] men who were employed fell by 1.7 million. At the same time, the number of new male immigrant workers increased by 1.9 million.
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Of the 4.1 million new immigrant workers who got jobs in the United States between 2000 and 2005, an estimated 1.4 million to 2.7 million are illegal entrants.
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Based on a population of 12,000,000 illegal immigrants in the United States, and figures from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports and public records showing 2% of illegals apprehended are sex offenders, there are approximately 240,000 illegal
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On average, 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders come across U.S. borders illegally every day.
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Based on an in-depth study of 1,500 illegal immigrant sex offenders, who had a total of 5,999 victims (4 each on average), the estimated 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the U.S. have victimized a total of 960,000 persons.
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