Tag: Border policy

11% fewer INVADERS noted.

11% fewer INVADERS noted.

Study finds 11% drop in illegal immigrants
Conservatives hail the report as proof Bush’s controversial policy of enforcement via workplace raids is working.

WASHINGTON — A report Wednesday indicating a marked decline in the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. fueled a widening national debate over the Bush administration’s policy of immigration enforcement through aggressive workplace raids.

The largest such enforcement action was in May in Postville, Iowa, where federal immigration agents descended on a meatpacking plant and arrested nearly 400 workers later detained in a building used to house cattle.

The administration began aggressively enforcing workplace laws after Congress last year failed to pass an immigration overhaul. In the months since, thousands of workers have been arrested in scores of raids.

Conservatives have applauded the tactics, while critics have pointed to mistaken arrests of U.S. citizens, deaths of immigrants in detention and limited scrutiny of managers who recruit and hire them.

However, evidence that the strategy may have succeeded in reducing the number of illegal immigrants was presented in a report Wednesday by a group favoring tighter curbs on all forms of immigration.
The report by the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think tank, says that the number of illegal immigrants fell about 11% between last August and May, from 12.5 million to 11.2 million.

The study was based on an analysis of census data and concludes that if that rate of decline is sustained, the number of illegal immigrants will be halved in five years.

Steve A. Camarota, the center’s research director, acknowledged that the economy played a role in the decline but said that several factors pointed to enforcement as key. For instance, the legal immigrant population continues to grow, while the fall-off in illegal immigrants began even before unemployment began rising.

“It seems that increased enforcement has played a significant role,” Camarota said.

Who would have thought actually enforcing the laws of the land would lead to a reduction in the crime the laws were designed to prevent? Not me heavens no, LMAO.

How about this, a two pronged attack.. Build the damned fence, shut down the ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FLOOD all together and then discuss how to deal with the 12 to 30 million Illegals already here. UNTIL THE BORDER IS SEALED No Discussion at all.

BUSH IS a moron of galactic proportions him and his cronies have made a bundle off the illegal debacle, and they try to play it off like it’s a “Humane” issue.. NOT BUYING IT!

Mark my words, if BUSH doesn’t release Ramos and Campeon SOON, McCain will not win the white house. US Real CONSERVATIVES have a problem with hypocrisy.

With Obama we know were getting a racist/communist with appeasement tendencies, With McCain we think we are getting a “Republican” we are actually getting a knife in the back.

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