| The United
States today is burdened by well over 6 MILLION illegal aliens
It is simply too easy for
terrorists to sneak through American borders. It says a whole lot when The American Patrol
estimates the United States today is burdened by 6 MILLION illegal aliens. We have loose
borders somewhere. To be sure, an estimated 300,000+ stream through the 2000 mile
Mexican-U.S. border annually - a conservative figure. An article in the Sierra Times, July
8, 2000 states "more than 87 percent of people of Mexican decent now residing in the
United States are not US citizens - holding instead resident alien status or illegal alien
status."7
To put this problem in proper perspective, INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service)
only posts statistics for illegal immigrants apprehended along 205 miles of the
U.S.-Mexico Rio Grande border known as the Del Rio Sector. This leaves 1800 miles
unaccounted for and obviously does not include illegals who slip through undetected. This
figure is estimated to be as much as eight times higher8 than those apprehended!
In 1999, INS captured 156,656 illegal aliens. These were all Mexicans except 4,799 listed
as "others". Through just July of this year, 132,007 illegal Mexicans had been
apprehended, plus another 5,640 "others".9 Extrapolating from the number of
immigrants who slip through this border and elude authorities, America would have at least
1.25 million people entering the country illegally at the Southern border. Think how this
number magnifies when the borders along New Mexico, Arizona and California are added! |
