Illegal Immigrant Population Declining

Among the findings:

* Our best estimate is that the illegal population declined 13.7 percent (1.7 million) from a peak of 12.5 million in the summer of 2007 to 10.8 million in the first quarter of 2009.

Who can believe this report? They’ve been saying 12 million illegal aliens in this country since the days of Bill Clinton.

“Take away the jobs and they will go home—and enforcement works.”

As I’ve mentioned many times, it is our prosperity that has caused our downfall. If we were a mediocre homogeneous nation that held mostly protectionist values, trading with other countries only on those things necessary, but self-sufficient with all home-grown labor, none of the world’s rabble would be stepping over each other in order to get in any way they could.

We are being destroyed partly by the big shot corporate types who earn their 100 million bonuses for setting in place a branch overseas or a push for cheap illegal labor for their operations here.

History reveals to us that those nations steeped in greed for power and money have always failed. We are part of a vicious cycle that constantly plays itself out over and over again throughout the history of the world.

If there were a way to have a dynasty of near perfect humans who would be benign dictators, that would be the only system that would work. Freedom is excellent for intelligent, well-informed people, but it falls to corruption once the populace is controlled by the greed merchants, and there’s no way to prevent that under the system we now have.

Dissolution is the best answer. At least we will have a few generations of harmony and quality living before the corrupt demagogues take over.

We’ve been living on borrowed time for a long time now. Multiculturalism has accelerated the degenerative processes.

A recession is the best time to drive home illegal immigrant enforcement/reform because businesses aren’t pushing as hard for cheap labor and public sentiment is concerned about competition in a shrinking job market. It’s too bad that congress is more concerned with other things right now.

“Illegal Immigrant Population Declining” Slightly, and For Now

Each recession we have will only result in driving down wages. People will become desperate to take any job at any pay and white males will be forced to compete for jobs against people who automatically move to the head of the line by viture of the “victim” index.

I don’t know what’s going to happen and when but something is going to give.

‘While migration patterns have fundamentally changed, it must be remembered that the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants have not left the country, and tens of thousands of new illegal immigrants continue to settle in the country each year.’

Until the SAVE Act and other measures to mandate use of verification of legal residence by employers are implemented, we will suffer from the plague of leeches from the South.

Put someone in a max prison from the Marriott Family or a major food processor and you may make progrss. Otherwise, when the economy goes up a bit, the traitors in the management class will hire more illegals. Unemployed real Americans will continue to slide into total poverty.

And don’t forget Obamacare: the President and his gal pal Nancy can’t wait to provide full, free healthcare to every illegal immigrant. After all, we have compassionate leaders.

Maybe the drug dealers in Mexico will pay for our entire health care in return for open borders for drugs. Since we already have open borders for drugs, we can only benefit.

I couldn’t agree more with Ranger, and the rest of the comments here. I would only add that, like Flaxen-headed Strumpet, the immigration numbers are as cooked as the unemployment ones. If we had 12 million illegals under Clinton, and a million or so have been crossing the border and not going home per year since, plus all their “anchor babies”, we have 30-40 million at least, either illegal or uninvited. Talk about an invasion!

I wish there were some way to independently verify this because I’m more than a little skeptical. Twice they’ve tried to ram the amnesty down our throats and twice they’ve failed. Now they say they’re concentrating on enforcement but at the local level I haven’t noticed anything different. At the local level there’s just as many illegals where I live and the numbers look to me like they’re growing. They just opened another run down looking Mexican restaurant for all the illegal patrons.

I say take away the illegals and the jobs will come back. I say deport all imported foreign workers and the jobs will come back. I say outlaw the importation of Western goods manufactured in China and the jobs will come back. I say outlaw the use of foreign nationals doing back office work and the jobs will come back. I say impeach every politician who fails to legislate in favor of the American worker and the jobs will come back. And I say fine every domestic businessman who employs aliens and the jobs will come back. Everything the Globalists have done against our country can be reversed if we hold our politicians accountable for their treachery…

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On July 22nd, 2009, the Pew Hispanic Center report released a report entitled Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave? , by Jeffrey S. Passel and D´Vera Cohn.

This document concludes that immigration from Mexico has decreased:

“Immigration from Mexico to the U.S., especially unauthorized immigration, began to drop off in mid-2006, and that pattern has continued into 2009…”

On the other hand, the report indicated no great net exodus of Mexicans from the U.S.: “Recent data from U.S. and Mexican population surveys provide no evidence that an increased number of immigrants have left the United States to return to Mexico since 2006.”

It appears then that a lot of Mexicans are staying here despite the economic downturn (after all, there’s an economic downturn in Mexico also).

And that leads us to another bizarre development. It’s even been reported that some Mexicans in the U.S. are now receiving remittances from their families in Mexico.

Yeah, you read that right. Here’s an excerpt from the article More Mexicans Are Sending Money to Help Out Relatives in the U.S. [AlterNet, July 23rd, 2009]:

“For decades, money sent home by Mexicans working in the United States has been a key pillar of the Mexican economy. Now, scattered reports are surfacing of Mexicans sending money to support relatives in the United States hard hit by the economic crisis north of the border…According to Chihuahua state tourism department official Demetrio Sotomayor Cuellar, a 21 percent decrease over last year in the number of ‘paisanos’ [Mexican immigrants traveling home for visits] crossing the Chihuahua border from June 26 to July 14 led officials to investigate the visitor drop. In the course of the probe, Sotomayor said, officials ran across unusual reports in the hands of Mexico’s Interior Ministry. Much to their surprise, officials learned that some Mexicans were financially sustaining their migrant relatives in the United States. ‘This was something that was never seen before and now it is,’ Sotomayor said. ‘Family members who are employed in Mexico are sending money to those relatives who are unemployed in the United States.’ “

Maybe the family is Mexico considers this an investment in their future. They don’t want their invader relatives to leave the U.S. if there is even a hint of amnesty in the air.