does anyone know the amount of illegals coming across the mexican/american border each night?
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yea how many i'd like to know!
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In 2004 10,000 federal agents (CBP) working on the border apprehended 1.1 million people attempting to cross the border.\n\nHave you ever been to the border between the US and Mexico?  It is very long (over 2000 miles) and extremely in hospitable. I know because I was stationed in a recon unit to watch a portion of it.  Even if a fence is built, there is no way to watch the fence all the time, and any fence can be breached.  Do the math....to adequately watch the border with real time guards (that is someone who can respond to an immediate breach) you would need a guard tower every 1/4 mile (depending on terrain).  That is 8000 guard towers.  To staff that 24 hours/365, with two agents, you would need 64,000 agents, plus another large group to actually round up the illegals, process them, and detain them.  Although some might like to, we can't shoot them or abuse them, so this is expensive.  \n\nBy my rapid calculations, we would need about 100,000 more law enforcement personnel (at a cost of 8 billion dollars per year, not counting facilities).  We would also have to build a more user-friendly infrastructure along the border, which, by the way has lots of private land along it.  Yes, we could uset he military to staff these towers, but wait, by the constitution we can't have active duty military or reserve make arrests (posse comitatus).  Yes, they can watch and radio (like we did in the Sonoran Desert years ago), but then you end up with nasty situations like the Marine who shot and killed a Mexican boy who had strayed over the border with some sheep.\n\nPart of the problem is that while people whine about this, they love to get cheap labor.  Many businesses and private families intentionally employ illegal aliens because they save money.  The pressure that special interest groups representing certain of these folks is certain to make it difficult to stop the supply.  Congress is about the consider a new bill to have guest workers, like in Germany with the Turks.  After all, you don't really want a job as a fruit picker, do you, or as an office cleaner...got to leave those for the migrant workers!
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Too many to count.  The daily apprehension rate is kept by the supervisors.  Then the ones we come across once we go home and go out and about.  Living and working around the Border Patrol is quite interesting.
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They come here through various methods, from walking, swimming, etc., there have even been tunnels discovered that are air conditioned to get here.  Out of the 3 million illegals that came here last year, about 1400 or so died in the desert.  That survival is not a requirement to be legal, nor should it ever be.\n\nWomen who are pregnant on the border are given free access to our hospitals free of charge to have anchor babies through ambulances.\n\nRight now, if there were a 1 mile train coming from Mexico brimming with illegals the train could not be stopped because they are a common carrier.\n\nThey pay 'coyotes' to get them across.  I knew a guy that stayed stuck in a car for 9 days straight from around Guatemala to get here illegally.\n\nDon't forget also that the Mexican goverment prints and distributes a manual how to get here and end run our constitution to stay.  They tell their people we are stupid.  It irks me to find out that they are right about our leaders.\n\nThere are communities, some not more than three feet on the Mexican side having as many as 150,000 people waiting for their chance to hop the fence and get in.  Some of those places are so dangerous the Mexican police won't go there.  \n\nThe Mexican army shoots .50 caliber bullets at our border patrol, according to them almost every day, to protect drug smugglers and human traffikers to cross.\n\nOur people on the border have been accosted by armies of illegals crossing over and assaulting them and thier families - the Mexican Government keeps trying to sue them for civil rights violations for protecting theirselves, their property, and their families.\n\nAnyway you can think of to get here, they get here.  And people on both sides can and do get hurt.
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OPEN BORDERS IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO AMERICA!\n\nIn 2005 as many as 4 - 10- million illegal aliens crossed into the United States illegally.\n\nDuring 2005, Boarder Patrol apprehended approximately 1.2 million illegal aliens; of those 165,00 were from Countries other than Mexico.  Of the non-Mexican aliens, approximately 650 were from special interest countries. (Terrorist countries)\n\nFederal law enforcement estimates that 10 percent to 30 percent of illegal aliens are actually apprehended.  \n\n(Which calculates to, 6,500 to 19,500 illegal aliens from TERRORIST countries snuck across the boarder in 2005 alone!)
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I dont really know, illegal immigrants are a problem all over the U.S. there are over 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, some are in more states than others. I think that the border needs to be covered more and I think if there are underground tunnels to the United States, they need to be found and filled.
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I'm not sure, but I know this...in Mexico, if you're an illegal and you get caught, they bus or fly you back to your country of origin.  In 2004, the Mexican government deported over 200k illegal immigrants that streamed in from their southern border with Guatemala.  If Fox thinks open borders is such a wonderful thing, perhaps Mexico might consider drinking a little of their own Kool-aid.
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Here in Arizona there are more "native" people per square mile that in any other part of the nation. I travel through 4 different reservations daily. The number of American flags you will see flying from homes is awesome. These people respect America and America respects them. These are law abiding people. You would be hard pressed to convince even a few to allow illegals into America.
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You are right. According to the pew Hispanic research center the vast majority of illegal Mexicans were gainfully employed before crossing into America. I saw an interview on an Arizona news show. The interview was with a 16 year old girl who thought she could cross the desert. She was lucky the border patrol found her. When she was asked what preparations she had made for her journey she said none, then she was asked how far she had ever walked at on time before and her response was from one end of the mall to the other. When asked if she would try to enter illegally again she said yes.
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I've seen those facts before, attributed to the Los Angeles Times.\n\nThe fact is that illegal immigrants concentrate, not only in states, but in specific localities.  That is enough to significantly impact statistics for that locality, be it a state or a county.\n\nThe impact is huge, but it is mostly for state and local costs, which the federal government refuses to reimburse while refusing to allocate (federal) funding enforce laws that might prevent this from occurring.\n\nContact your Congressmen. Don't forget to say that the 10 year 'rolling amnesty' through the 'statute of limitations' provision in the Senate bill has got to go.  They are ignoring the elephant in the bedroom.
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The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The actions of President Bush are prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and agree with Bill O'Reilly. \n\nCanadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists, and Unitarians crossing their fields at night. \n\n"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. "The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry." \n\n"He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?" \n\nIn an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields. "Not real effective," he said. "The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk." \n\nOfficials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border and leave them to fend for themselves. \n\n"A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though." \n\nWhen liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR races. \n\nIn recent days, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers on Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney hits to prove they were alive in the '50s. \n\n"If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age," an official said. \n\nCanadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies. \n\n"I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors does one country need?" \n\nIn an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to Cheney said. \n\n"We're going to have some Peter, Paul & Mary concerts. And we might put some endangered species on postage stamps. The President is determined to reach out," he said.
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Mendi if you open your yahoo browser and put in 'immigration' and 'border security' it will come up.  I saw it on the main stream press.  They are trying to get help from their government.  It was such a problem the US started spending more to drop people further into the interior, to make it easier.\n\nhere: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060617/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_no_way_home_3
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Well there is really no way to know how many illegal ones come since they are undocumented. So every website you go to is just going to be estimating. This website says how many entered up to 2004: http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/
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Theirs a little border town in Arizona that has sprung up on the Mexican side of the border, their is no fence, they are coming in by the thousands, they rest their then make a run over the desert, if they don't make it they go back to that little town and try again, and the border patrol does nothing. I watched it on Fox news today. I think we need a HUGE border fence in every state that borders Mexico.
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15 million illegals from mexico, 20 million illegals total...we are being invaded!!!!
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I saw some accounts saying that was the case a couple of weeks back. People picked up said they were 'coming for the amnesty' and knew the guard was going to the border.  However, there will probably be some diminishing effect when the border patrol is really there, until they figure their next move.\n\nMeanwhile, I read in another article that coyote fees have gone up by 50%.
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Too many!! It is irrelevant to the issue now. We have too many illegal aliens in our country, now, today, 2006 and we need to put a stop to it and deport those here. There has to be a stopping point to the law being abused. That time has come.