In 1990 the illegal aliens/immigrant population was about 4 Million. In 2,000, that increased to an estimated 9 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.

In 1986, The Immigration and Refugee Control Act (IRCA), passed Congress which was to give a "one-time" pass of amnesty to illegal immigrants in the country then. From 1986 to 1990, illegal immigrants increased again to 4 million. According to the 1990 Census and the Pew Hispanic Center in 1990, approximately 60% illegal immigrants were from Mexico, 20% from other Latin America countries, 12% from Asian countries, 5% from Europe and Canada and 2% from Africa.

According to a U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service summary release dated Jan. 31, 2003, the U.S. Census data said there were 7 million undocumented people residing in the United States as of December 2002.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, in March of 2005, there were 11.1 million illegal immigrants in the country. This is an increase of over 4 million in just 3 years. As of March 2005, 56% of illegal immigrants are coming from Mexico, 22% from other Latin American countries, 13% from Asia, 6% from Europe and Canada, and 3% from Africa. 2005 Pew Hispanic Report

Now, in 2006, based on U.S. Border Estimates of 10,000 daily illegal immigrants that are crossing the border since March 2005, it is estimated that there are now between 14.1 and 15 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. States. And it could be as high as 20 Million. This is a 28% increase from 2003 to 2005 influx of illegal immigrants coming into the country. 60% of this number, or 6,000 are coming from Mexico each and every day. Costs for education, welfare, food stamps, medical care, housing, energy assistance for illegal immigrants has soared and is staggering. There is also the costs of housing illegal immigrants in prisons and jails for crimes they commit in U.S. after crossing the border. In addition, illegal immigrants send over $30 billion dollars annual back to relatives in Mexico. Who is paying for it? The American Taxpayer.

The population of undocumented residents in the United States increased by about 23 percent during the four-year period: 2001 to 2005, according to the analysis of government data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a private research group.

Overall, the U.S. foreign-born population, was 35.7 million last year based on 2000 Census data and calculations for 2005. Those of Mexican descent again comprised the largest group of foreign born descent - more than 11 million, or 32 percent. This does not count the Mexican illegal aliens which is estimated at another 10.5 Million, with some saying it could be as high as 14-15 Million.

15 years ago, the Hispanic population which included illegal aliens/immigrants in the U.S. was approximately 11% of the U.S. population. In 2006, it is estimated at 32%, a 21% increase in 15 years. Why in the world have the politicians in Washington been stalling on doing anything concerning illegal aliens and illegal immigrants?

81% of illegal aliens, or approximately 8.2 Million, are from Mexico and Latin American countries.

This will give you an example of how much illegal aliens are costing the U.S. Department of Corrections for jailing illegal aliens in this country who have committed crimes.

On March 17, 2005, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill (S. 188) to re-authorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) for six years. SCAAP helps state and local governments with the prison and jail costs of illegal immigrants who have committed crimes not related to their immigration status. The bill authorized $750 million for fiscal year (FY) 2006, $850 million for FY 2007, and $950 million per year for FY 2008 through FY 2011. The program received $297 million in FY 2005. No funding was requested for SCAAP in the President's FY 2006 budget, therefore States were going to have to foot the bill in 2006. However, the Senate adopted a Sense of the Senate amendment to the FY 2006 budget resolution that $750 million was appropriated for SCAAP in 2006.

After reading this column, I hope you will contact your Congressman and tell them at least two things:

1:) Those that here illegally, NO AMNESTY, they must home or be arrested - they are here illegally.
2:) A wall must built on the border to stop the flow, it is averaging now 10,000 daily crossing the border.

You are the only ones that can get the politicians to do what needs to be done, please call, fax or write your Congressman today. There are links at the bottom of this article that will direct you to contact information for your Congressman.

What's Wrong With This Picture? Is This America or Mexico ? What you are seeing has occurred in the hundreds of protests by illegal immigrants across the country recently. I never thought I would see the day of seeing this in America. If you said, "Mexico", you are correct. It is illegal immigrant demonstrators in San Diego a few weeks ago waving the Mexican flag. I have received thousands of emails from Americans that were very upset seeing this. America has its own flag. Do we need another flag, especially a flag from a country that DOES not take care of its own, but instead shoves them into the U.S. by actually printing a 31 page booklet in 2004 entitled,"Guide for the Mexican Migrant,"showing illegals how to "safely" cross the border without being caught ?

Waving the Mexican Flag in America
These people need to go home...
if they want to wave their Mexican flag

The politicians in Washington need to get off their collective behinds and do something NOW about this serious issue of illegal immigrants.


This issue has been boiling and getting worse over last 8 years. I want to make one thing very perfectly clear. I am not a racist by any means. The data and facts you will read are simply the data and facts.

There are those in the illegal immigrant movement that are attacking journalists for simply stating the facts and data, instead calling these journalists racists. I am not a racist, I am simply stating the facts, the data, the truth.

Here are the facts and data:

We've Done This Before -

The Immigration and Refugee Control Act (IRCA), passed in 1986, was touted as a "one-time-only" amnesty to end illegal immigration, to provide a clear path for foreign workers to find legal jobs in the US, and to protect US workers from underground cheap labor. I DID NOT support it. It made NO sense. It promised to provide tough employer sanctions that would shut off the lure of employment for illegal workers and therefore halt the invasion that was causing so many problems, especially in the states bordering on Mexico. Has it worked? NO - illegal immigrants from Mexico have increased to over 10,000 illegal border crossings daily into the country. That is 3 million a year.

Federal Law -
These People Are Here Illegally
Regardless of What Anyone Says...
They Have Broken The Law, They Are Criminals

Under Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code, “Improper Entry by Alien,” any citizen of any country other than the United States who: Enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers; or Eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers; or Attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact; has committed a federal crime.

Violations are punishable by criminal fines and imprisonment for up to six months. Repeat offenses can bring up to two years in prison. Additional civil fines may be imposed at the discretion of immigration judges, but civil fines do not negate the criminal sanctions or nature of the offense.

As Thomas Jefferson said, "when the citizens of a country do not enforce the laws they have written, it can only lead the country into anarchy." - In other words, "civil unrest".

Has The Above Law Been Enforced?

No - You saw the proof in the hundreds of thousands of illegal protestors you saw on the News!

Where were immigration services at these protests to check if this people were legal to be in the U.S.? Why weren't those who were actually talking to television reporters, saying they were illegally here arrested and deported?

Here Are Facts You Need To Know

Most of the data below has come from U.S. Census records, The Pew Hispanic Center and the Federation for American Immigration Reform

• The Federation for American Immigration Reform believes between 40 and 50% of the wage loss among low-skilled Americans is due directly to illegal immigration of low-skilled workers.

• In California alone, illegal immigrants last year, cost the state taxpayers $10.5 Billion dollars a year, or $1,183 per household. Illegal aliens make up a whopping 15% of all public school students in California costing 7.7 Billion Dollars annually. 1.4 Billion of the taxpayers money goes towards providing health care for illegal immigrants in California.

• Pregnant women in Mexico can't wait to cross the border. Once here and if they have the child in the U.S. without getting caught before they have the child, the child becomes a U.S. citizen with all the welfare benefits and the mother stays with the child. Each one of these illegal births as I call them in the U.S. costs the U.S. taxpayer according to Emergency Room Costs standards is $1,845.00. This is one of the reasons why hospitals have had to close in California.

• The average illegal alien family from Mexico, once they have been here for 5 years undetected has an average of 4.5 children, with 80% of these families receiving State and U.S. Government welfare and subsides.

• In Florida, the costs of illegal immigrants are 2 billion dollars annually.

• In Texas, the cost is $4.7 Billion dollars every fiscal year. $4 Billion of that is for education.

• In Colorado, the annual costs of illegal immigrants to the state are now in excess of $1 Billion dollars.

• Approximately 27% of all incarcerated persons are illegal immigrants. 63% of those persons are actually citizens of Mexico.

• In the 2004 fiscal year, the Federal government spent $1.43 billion dollars on the incarceration of illegal immigrants in prisons.

• In California, 2004, illegal immigrants costs the State $10.5 Billion annually. Today it is over $12 Billion.

• In California, 2004, convicted illegal aliens in state prisons and jails cost taxpayers there approximately $200 Million annually.

• In 2004, California was spending $1.4 Billion annually on health care for illegal immigrants/aliens through welfare programs. That has increased to $1.6 Billion annually in 2006.

  2004 California Executive Summary On Illegal Aliens Costs - PDF file
  http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/ca_costs.pdf?docID=141

• In California, 2005, 84 hospitals filed bankruptcy due to providing medical care to illegal immigrants.

• Arizona spent $1.3 billion last year on the incarceration of illegal immigrants from Mexico.

• In Tucson Arizona, just the last six months, the state has absorbed $7 Million in unpaid bills at the University Medical Center due to illegal immigrants. Today, approximately 18 hospitals in Arizona are on the verge of closing their doors because of illegal immigrants. In 2005, 14 had to close their doors.

• Here is a real doozy of an example of how our "brilliant" politicians in Washington have thought about giving the farm to illegal aliens and ignoring the health care needs of 43 Million uninsured Americans at the time.

  In 2002, there was a bill seeking a path through Congress called The Federal Responsibility for Immigrant Health Act of 2002. It was the most irresponsible piece of legislation I have ever seen. Sponsored by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., this measure would have had the federal government, i.e. taxpayers from all 50 states, pick up the tab for the health insurance costs of illegal immigrants, despite the fact that at the time over 43 Million Americans were without health insurance. Thank God it never made it to the floor for a vote. Here are illegal aliens, that have broken a law by coming into this country and this bill would have paid insurance premiums for illegal aliens, basically rewarding them for breaking the law. Can you believe this?

• 80% of cocaine, and 50% of heroine in the United States comes through our southern border, Mexico. The Mexican government has done very little to curb this, as a matter of fact recent findings like the tunnel in San Diego this year found members of the Mexican Army involved in the drug traffic.

• In 1993, four states; Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas filed lawsuits against the federal government seeking to recover the spiraling costs of providing services to illegal immigrants and their American-born children. Partly in response to these pressures, the 1994 federal crime bill included $1.8 billion over six years to reimburse states for the costs of detaining criminal illegal immigrants in prisons; Congress approved $130 million for 1995 as the first installment.

• However, in 1999, the State of Florida again sued the U.S. Govt. for the spiraling costs, ( $3.4 billion) of illegal immigrants based on claims the U.S. Govt. was not doing anything to curb the influx. That case is still pending. Presently, 11 other states are looking at litigation against the Govt. concerning the same issues of spiraling costs for illegal aliens. The border states - California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas - are going bankrupt due to the spiraling costs of illegal aliens.

• Mexican and Unites States border forces have clashed over 120 times over the past 5 years

• An average of 10,000 illegal immigrants cross the border every day, over three million per year. 60% are coming from Mexico.

• The U.S. Department of Correction's budget skyrockets every year and is currently over $800 million dollars annually for "illegals immigrants" who have committed crimes in the U.S. Hello, that is nearly 1 billion dollars a year for this alone.

• Time magazine stated in 2004 that illegal immigration accelerated under the Bush Administration, with the US gaining 3 million additional illegal immigrant residents in 2004. A third of all illegal immigrants in the US live in California. Other states with large illegal populations are, in descending order, California,Texas, New York, Illinois, Florida, Arizona, Oregon,Utah, New Mexico, Indiana, Minnesota, North Carolina.

• After more than 100 years in existence, President Bush dissolved the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)in March 2003 and absorbed it into the new Homeland Security Department. Until its dissolution, the INS had been part of the Justice Department since 1940, and before that, part of the US Labor Department. After September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration complained that the INS was insufficiently focused on deporting and expelling illegal immigrants, and thus asked that it be transferred to Homeland Security. It should had never been transferred to the Homeland Security. The US Border Patrol is charged with the responsibility of enforcing illegal immigration across US borders. Until 2003, the Border Patrol was part of the INS, but was also folded into Homeland Security.

• On October 7, 2005, 80 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the President, calling on him to enforce immigration laws, and deferring consideration of the White House's proposed guest-worker immigration program. "History has shown that enforcement provisions are ignored and underfunded..." said the Congressional letter. Congressman Culberson told CNN's Lou Dobbs on October 7, 2005, "We've got a full-scale war going on our southern border. You don't need to go to Iraq to see a war. We've got widespread lawlessness...We need boots on the ground...ASAP."

  WE MUST STOP THE FLOW OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ACROSS THE BORDER
  THE WALL MUST BE BUILT ALONG THE BORDER !

• There are 1.8 million undocumented illegal immigrant children, versus 3.1 million that have been born by illegal immigrants once in the country. The mother can then stay in the United States because the child is born here. She then gets on welfare, gets foods stamps, housing assistance, claiming her husband has left her when in fact he lives right down the right...and all this is being paid for by the American Taxpayer to the tune of $35-$40 billion a year.

• A quarter million undocumented Middle-Eastern aliens live in the United States.

• The net annual increase in illegal immigrants is at least 500 thousand and growing each year. Southeastern states are experiencing the highest growth rate in illegal immigration in the nation, particularly North Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, and Tennessee, according to a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center.

• Illegal immigrants do not just take jobs Americans don’t want. According to a recent report by the Center for Immigration Studies, illegal immigrant workers are displacing non-immigrant and even legal immigrant American workers on almost a one for one basis. Who is profiting from this? Why are American voters tolerating such an outrage?

• Some illegal aliens are abused by the employers that high them illegally and lower wages than their American counterparts. In these jobs and in construction, these illegal aliens are not taking jobs that Americans do not want, they are taking jobs that Americans have lost due to these places paying illegal aliens lower wages or under the counter in cash.

  For example, illegals working in meat packing plants or chicken plants who have been seriously injured, some have actually died, while some permanently injured. Having no health insurance and being insured, they have had to rely on State and Federal Medicaid funds to pay for their medical treatment - or as in many cases, the hospital has to "eat" their bill. This has caused an increase in hospitals costs to American taxpayers while also causing the closure of some of the hospitals and emergency rooms in hospitals. Usually, these illegal alien/immigrants, men or women who have been injured like this, usually have at least one child born in the U.S. which has allowed them to remain in the U.S.legally, while collectively they have broken the law by entering the U.S. over the southern bordr deserts.

• Competition from cheap illegal immigrant labor has depressed American wage levels 4-6% since 2000.

• Many if not most undocumented workers use fake social security numbers,meaning they pay into SSI and many say will never see the rewards for it. This is not true. The illegal immigrants workers with fake SSN cards DO NOT pay enough in to offset the costs of; education, health care and other services they receive. You've already seen some of the costs listed above, and this is just a minor few of all the many States that have illegal immigrants in their States. In addition, this use of a fake social security number is also breaking a Federal Law and is a federal crime. It is also creating a mess at the Social Security Department, because believe this or not, some of these people have come back years later trying to get social security using the fake number, but with their real names.

• Mexicans wire over $30 billion dollars to their relatives in Mexico annually.

• The social expenses that the American Taxpayer is picking up on illegal immigrants for education, health care, retirement funding, education and law enforcement are accruing at $35-$40 billion per year. In 2002, according to the The Center for Immigration Studies, an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization, estimated the social costs of illegal immigrants were $22-$25 billion annually. A 60% increase in just 3 years. Can the American Taxpayer afford this and continue to afford it?

• In 2003, The American Hospital Association reported that its member facilities provided $21 billion in uncompensated health-care services last year to illegal aliens. In 2005, that has increased to over $35 billion. Hospitals nationwide are literally having to close their doors due to illegal immigrants, they are bankrupting the hospitals.

• Illegal immigrants pay hardly no property taxes nationwide. Therefore the rest of American Taxpayers are footing the bill to educate their children.

• In Oregon there are approximately 13,000 illegal aliens in their K-12 system. At a cost of more than $10,000 per year per student, it is costing Oregon about $130 million per year to educate illegal alien children in their primary and secondary schools. And this is only one state, Oregon! Multiply that figure by the number of states that have the same problem.

• In 2003, the cost nationwide to teach children of illegal aliens was $7.4 Billion. Today, it is in excess of $9.8 Billion.

• In January, Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc. released a study, "The Underground Labor Force Is Rising to the Surface," www.bearstearns.com/bscportal/pdfs/underground.pdf., the authors assert that between 4 million and 6 million illegals are paid under the table and as a result cheat the federal government out of an estimated $35 billion a year in income taxes. The cumulative cost to states is even greater. Most illegal immigrants are poorly educated and unskilled and as a result do not earn enough money to be required to pay taxes, even if they are carried on the payroll. That is particularly true in Oregon, Oregon does not have a sales tax. Some of the other states that have a large illegal population do not have a state sales tax either.

• Did you know that our country is the only one where illegal immigrants or groups that support illegal immigrants can hold demonstrations against Immigration Services for doing their job. And where they can demand a bilingual education and now a taxpayer subsidized college education. What's wrong with this picture I ask you?

• According to Harvard Economist George Borgas and Edwin S. Ruvenstein, "immigration policy is costing each American worker $2,600 a year. Did you get that amount? $2,600 a year. Their research has revealed that a massive redistribution of wealth is occurring, because of immigration's impact on American wages - Americans are becoming poorer - that is why Americans have been forced having to shop at Walmart buying cheaply made products now made in China that were once made in the U.S. Do you remember when Walmart had these huge signs in their stores saying, MADE IN AMERICA, and Walmart touted that over 80% of the products they sold were made in the U.S? Instead, Walmart has literally bankrupt many small U.S. manufacturing companies demanding lower prices. These smaller companies couldn't compete with the ridiculous low prices Walmart could get for cheaply made products made in China.

  HELLO AMERICA - YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF REGARDING THIS!

• Conservatively, total direct costs of illegal immigrants for federal, state, and local government programs is estimated to be over $90 billion dollars per year. Even with the state, local and federal taxes illegal immigrants pay, this leaves the Federal Government and the States footing the bill to the tune of $60 Billion a year due to illegal immigrants. Actually is you, the American Taxpayer that is footing the bill.

• According to a Bear Stearns Report, 4 to 6 million illegal immigrants are in the underground economy, where no income is reported and no taxes are paid. This is a loss in excess of $15 Billion or more a year in tax revenues that is lost that would not be lost if American workers held those jobs.

• The annual cost of educating the 3.5 million children of illegal immigrants is over $28 billion.

• If you have XX million illegal immigrants leave. Those that were being paid $6 to $7 an-hour workers are replaced with Americans at $10 to $12 an hour. Wouldn’t that nearly double the tax collection and balance the budget? How can anyone believe or state the illegal immigrants are contributing to this country. They are simply a financial burden and drain.

• There are millions of unemployed Americans in this country, the majority of whom are willing to work. However, Americans have been replaced with illegal immigrants. For example, many that use to work at meat packing factories, housing construction sites have been replaced with illegal immigrants earning $2-$3 dollars less an hour. There are countless millions of Americans who have lost their jobs due to outsourcing to countries that have a universal health care system and cheaper labor, and there are countless Americans who have lost their jobs to immigrants that will work for substandard wages. This is not longer America the free, it American the slave labor country.

• In a newsletter that Congressman Charlie Norwood recently sent, he says, "President Bush's recent budget proposals calls for the United States to allow over 1 million new illegal immigrants to infiltrate our border illegally during 2007. In addition, with our current budget and reform plans, we are by default agreeing to allow an additional 4 million illegal aliens into our country over the next four years, the equivalent of the entire population of South Carolina or Oregon." Think about that a minute...that will be like adding a 51st state, populated entirely by low-income illegal aliens.

• On March 20, 2006, one Southern California school district almost closed its middle and high schools for the rest of the week after officials said they had heard rumors that some of the widespread demonstrations against proposed federal immigration reforms could turn violent.

• Anna Ortega, 27, said that she was a legal permanent U.S. resident and that until recently she was an office manager for a chiropractor in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. Four years ago, she was convicted of conspiracy for being a bit player in a drug-smuggling ring. Her husband, a U.S. citizen and repeat offender, received 10 years in prison; she got probation. She was ordered to appear at a deportation hearing, but she skipped it. Come to find out, she was an illegal alien.

• Demonstrations by illegal aliens took place in communities of all sizes. From 50,000 in Atlanta to one involving 3,000 people in the farming town of Garden City, Kan., which has fewer than 30,000 residents. In Atlanta, many in white T-shirts, and waving Mexican flags, joined a two-mile march from a largely immigrant neighborhood. What is this waving the Mexican flag in American. This is not Mexico, if these illegal immigrants want to wave their flag, they need to go back to Mexico and wave it there.

• Florentino Cruz, 32, an illegal worker from Mexico who has been in the United States since 1992 said on live television in New York. "This country was made by immigrants." Yes, it was, but they were "legal" immigrants who came through ports legally, NOT CROSSING THE BORDER.

• 90% of the illegal aliens from Mexico and Latin American countries cannot speak or write English. Schools nationwide have been forced to institute Spanish classes in schools. English is the language spoken in America, not Spanish, Castelian or one of the many dialects that have emerged over the centuries between the Spanish and Indian lanugages in Mexico which some call, Mexican.

• The Rev. James Orange from the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda compared the demonstrations to civil rights demonstrations led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and farm-labor organizer Cesar Chavez. This issue has NOTHING to do with civil rights. Has Rev. Orange lost his mind. These people have broken the law, they are illegally in the United States.

• In Houston, demonstrators estimated at 50,000 gathered at a park in a largely Hispanic area of town as they rallied to march toward the spot where the city's founders first arrived. Some were chanting in Spanish as they waved their Mexican flag, "Viva Mexico, we will take back Texas which was ours to begin with."

• What Is Causing This Exodus Out of Mexico - Widespread Poverty and Hunger in Mexico is What !
  According to the World Bank, 53% of Mexico' population of 104 million residents live in poverty, which is defined as living on less than $2 a day. Close to 24% of Mexico's population live in extreme poverty, which means they live on less than $1 a day.

  The bottom 40% of Mexican households share less than 11% of the country's wealth. Millions live in extreme poverty,and children are compelled to work on the streets in order to help provide food for their families. Many work as prostitutes.

  Unemployment in Mexico is realistically estimated near 40%, and there are no government unemployment benefits. There are also virtually no welfare benefits to provide the basics for poverty-stricken, often-starving women, children and families. There is no health care for the poor in Mexico. If you are poor and get sick in Mexico, 90% die from even minor illnesses that could easily be cured by medical care.

• A recent Roper poll found that a large majority (75%) supports strong laws to identify and deport illegal immigrants. Are the politicians in Washington listening? No !

  The poll also found that the public rejects President Bush's proposal to give a more limited amnesty to some 3 million illegal immigrants from Mexico.

• An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found 59 percent say they oppose allowing illegal immigrants to apply for legal, temporary-worker status. They want illegals deported back to country of origin.

• A Time Magazine poll found that 79% of Americans say illegal immigrants should have the chance to work here, but most want tougher enforcement, but through legal means by applying for a green card. They also want illegals deported.

• A CBS News poll shows that 63 percent of Americans do not want illegal immigrants to receive work permits, an idea currently being pushed by the Bush Adminstration. They also want illegal immigrants that have entered the country illegally deported - no more amensty like the government did in 1986.

• 76% of those polled in the Southwest feel illegal immigrants hurts the economy in their states. Those surveyed also said they didn't want private citizens to patrol US borders, but the government or military and want illegal immigrants deported. They also stated they want a wall build to stop the staggering 10,000 a day that are coming over the border from Mexico.

• In a Wall Street poll, 87% of those poll said they do not want illegals immigrants to be able to get drivers licenses. They also want them deported. They did however state they support a guest worker program, but not illegal immigrants that sneak into the country and take jobs away from Americans.

• Last but least, I want to make one thing perfectly clear. This column is not about the Hispanic population who entered this country legally. Nor have these truths and data been presented to be racist. Facts are facts. It is about illegal alien immigrants and their burdensome costs to the American Taxpayer, which many politicians in Washington have forgotten who have been footing the bill for illegal/aliens and immigrants. If you don't believe that, then you are missing the whole point of the facts in truth of this column.

I received the following email from one of my readers, a Hispanic woman who LEGALLY entered the country and became a citizen. I admire people like this woman for she says it like it is. I have omitted her name for privacy reasons.

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Dear Mr. Dewey:

I hope you will be doing a article about illegal immigrants.

As a person of Hispanic descent from Mexico who legally entered this country and became a citizen, I am very upset that our government officials are talking about giving these people amnesty again. Didn't they already do that in 1986 and it was suppose to be only a one time thing.

I am upset because my property tax bill keeps climbing every year to cover schools, health care costs and local colleges costs for these illegal immigrants, while my own children don’t qualify for financial aid for college. Government agencies may claim that illegal immigrants don’t qualify for state-funded programs, but what about the children they start having once they illegally get here and have children here - then they do? The politicians are not seeing that.

Another thing, right here on my own street are three illegal immigrant women from Mexico. Each of them brought anywhere from 1 to 4 children with them born in Mexico. Then they have another child here in the United States which means they can now stay because of the child born here. These woman are collecting welfare, foods stamps, basically free health care saying their husbands left them, when it fact their husbands have not and are traveling the country working. Now I ask you, why should I, an American Citizen and taxpayer being forced to pay for these people. These people need to be sent back to Mexico and the Mexican government needs to fix the corruption and standard of living in Mexico so that these people will not want to come to the United States. And our government needs to stop being so nice to the Mexican government about this issue also. We need a wall built across the border, I tell you, this is the only way we are going to stop these people.

My comments are not welcome by many in my Hispanic community, but the bottom line is money and the illegal immigrants are a financial burden to the communities, to the states and the country. President Bush and all the other sleeping politicians need a wake-up call about this issue. Please write an article and provide the facts to the public - they need to know before it is too late.

Sincerely, One of Your Readers In San Diego, CA.

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You the American voter/taxpayer have the facts. Now it is up to you. The explosive wave of illegal immigration that has been seen especially the last five years is an outrageous scandal and betrayal of the public trust by our elected Congressmen in Washington. They have done nothing to address this issue since 1986 when they gave the 4 million illegals in the country then amnesty.

I cannot provide you with anything more to convince you of the importance of what must be done concerning this issue. What little I have presented to you in this article, is just the tip of the iceberg of the financial and social costs of illegal aliens in this country.

One thing I forgot to mention are the "gangs" that are showing up from southern Latin American countries.

These are gangs more ruthless that you can imagine. The most dangerous "gang" in the U.S. is the, Mara Salvatruchas 13 gang, also known as MS-13, ( Mara means posse, and the 13 represents where the gang first started, California.) Where did these gang members come from, Central and South America, especially Salvador, crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

Police authorities and the FBI ignored this growing gang that has now grown to over 70,000 members in 33 states, mainly because of a lack of funding and manpower. As the current rate of "new" members being accepted into the "gangs", MS-13 is expected to grow to over 500,000 in five years. It is also being called the "Mexican Mafia" in the U.S. for they are bringing into their fold illegals from Mexico. This gang is the most violent gang known to date in the U.S. They use machetes most of the time to kill or injure to near death.

Two summers ago, the body of a young woman who had informed against her boyfriend who was a gang member was found on the banks of the Shenandoah River, repeadtly stabbed and her head nearly severed. Last May, gang members in Alexandria, VA, armed with machetes, hacked away at a member of a rival American gang, slicing his fingers off, then this ears, then his toes. To put it bluntly, we do not need these kind of people in America. They have no understanding of what values are, much less what is right and wrong. They need to be sent back to where they came, or better yet, prevented from entering the country.

1990 to 2004 - Where Illegal Immigrants Lived.

In 1990, 88 percent of the illegal immigrant population lived in six states - California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Florida and New Jersey. By 2004, those states accounted for 61 percent of the nation's undocumented illegal/alien population. The top state is California, where nearly one-quarter of the undocumented reside, followed by Texas (14 percent) and Florida (9 percent). Next on the list were New York (7 percent), Arizona (5 percent), Illinois (4 percent), New Jersey (4 percent), and North Carolina (3 percent).

Arizona and North Carolina are two of the fastest-growing states in the nation overall and have metropolitan areas booming with new construction, restaurants and service-oriented businesses - job sectors that often hire undocumented illegal workers. Take Walmart for example who hired contractors for cleaning services in their stores who recently got hit with a $7 million dollar fine for hiring illegal immigrants for $2.00 an hour. Just think how many jobs that took away from U.S. citizens.

In March of 2005, I wrote a column, "Is It Time To Really Close The Border?". You may want to read that column also. I tried to warn then what was going to happen in 2006.

I hope it is not too late for you the American voter/taxpayer to do something. Our politicians, both Republicans and Democrats have sat on their collective behinds too long on this issue. You must let them hear your voice. Please contact your Congressman today and tell them:

• 1:) Those that here illegally, NO AMNESTY, they must go home and re-enter legally or be arrested - they are here illegally.
  
  

• 2:) A wall must built on the border to stop the flow, it is averaging now 10,000 daily crossing the border.

  You can find your Congressmen contact information below at the links:

  Please send me an email that you have written your Congressmen concerning this very serious issue that should have been taken cared of, even going back to President Clinton and President Johnson.

U.S. Senators Email Addresses U.S. House Of Representatives

~ David Lawrence Dewey

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Make sure you read about the new documentary Read About the Film - Click Here Do you want to die young with a diseased heart? Develop needless high blood presure? Develop diabetes type II ? If not - then you need to watch this new documentary ! THE FILM HAS WON FIVE FILM AWARDS !

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Do you care about your health, the health of your children, your family?
Then make sure you read my column:
Hydrogenated Oils - Silent Killers
Learn the truth about these deadly oils in our food supplies

Read about Greta Ferebee's and my efforts in a nationwide petition campaign to get these and other toxins out of the food supply. VISIT our website:

DoWeCare.org

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