IMMIGRATION
Illegal –adjective - 1. forbidden by law or statute. 2. contrary to or forbidden by official rules, regulations, etc. 3. noun Informal. illegal alien.[1]
Illegal alien or Illegal immigrant –noun - 1. a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization. 2. a foreigner who enters the U.S. without an entry or immigrant visa, esp. a person who crosses the border by avoiding inspection or who overstays the period of time allowed as a visitor, tourist, or businessperson.[2]
Illegal means breaking the law. Illegal immigration is breaking immigration laws. The law is the law. You break the law you are a criminal and should be treated as such.
As John Adams said we are “a government of laws, and not of men.”
Illegal immigration into the United States is massive in scale. More than 10 million illegal aliens currently reside in the U.S., and that population is growing by 700,000 per year.[3] It is a sign of how dangerously open our borders are.
When three out of every 100 people in America are illegal immigrants (or, rather, documented with forged and faked papers), there is a profound security problem.
CHILLING FACT
“Shortly after midnight on September 9, 2001, Maryland state trooper Joseph Catalano pulled over a red Mitsubishi rental car traveling 90 mph in a 65 mph zone on I-95 north of Baltimore,” the introduction of the report stated.
“The driver, Ziad Jarrah, had a Florida driver’s license and quietly accepted the $270 fine issued by Catalano before continuing on to join his friends at a hotel in New Jersey. Two days later, Jarrah boarded United Airlines flight 93, which he would later pilot into a field near Shanksville, Pa., killing everyone aboard,” it added.
In 2003 amendment 287 (g) was added to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. The program trains and certifies state and local law enforcement personnel to enforce federal immigration law through Memorandums of Agreement (MOA) issued by the Department of Homeland Security through its Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
After September 11, 2001, dozens of state and local law enforcement agencies have been able to join ranks with federal immigration authorities under the auspices of the 287(g) program to help identify and remove foreign nationals who commit crimes or otherwise pose a threat to our well-being.”
Between January 2006 and November 2008, local law enforcement agencies under amendment 287(g) arrested more than 81,000 illegal or criminal aliens.
In 2008, the number of 287(g) arrests (45,368) was equal to one-fifth of all criminal aliens identified by ICE in prisons and jails nationwide that year (221,085).
Participating agencies credit the 287(g) program as a major factor in reduced local crime rates, smaller inmate populations, and lower criminal justice costs.
The biggest obstacle to improving and expanding the 287(g) program is the lack of funding for bed space to detain illegal aliens discovered by local agencies to have committed crimes. As a result, ICE currently is removing fewer than half of the criminal aliens identified under 287(g).
The report, written by Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies at CIS, and CIS Fellow James R. Edwards, Jr., is critical of the Obama administration and Congress for not fully supporting the 287 (g) program as the report concludes it was intended to operate.
The gains of 287(g) will certainly be lost if the troubling change in congressional priority and ICE’s (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency) bureaucratic games persist.” [4]
THE COST TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
In 2006 the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates the current local annual costs of illegal immigration from just three program areas — educating the children in public primary and secondary schools, providing medical services in emergency rooms, and incarceration — amount to about $36 billion.
FAIR’s estimate is that the annual fiscal costs in 2010 would increase by nearly 70 percent to $61.5 billion for just these same three program areas. The amount would swell by an additional nearly 73 percent to $106.3 billion by 2020. [5]
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