how many people cross the border between Mexico and the US ?
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wayyyyyyy wayyyyy too many
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If you want to know come see for yourself. Its just one big joke. You can drive or walk or fly right through the Arizona/Mexico border at will.
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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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A mexican crossing the border
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No. It's the present!\n\nThat article was written poorly!  After reading it three times, I still haven't figured out if it's the American police or Mexican police!   Anyways, it doesn't matter regarding your question.  It sounds like one criminal group is fighting another for an illegal smuggling route.  What does the immigration law have to do with that? \n\nBreaking the law is just that!  We are finally trying to enforce some of our immigration laws. Our Southern border is our weakest link in our national security. It's about time we're doing something about it!
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There might be some good information ,  www.dhs.gov  but there will never be any accurate statistics on how much is actually getting through and you also have to look at the factors of where the threat is on drugs being smuggled into the U.S.  On a percentage of drugs from Mexico versus Canada, Mexico 80% Canada 10% and other countries 10%.  Are there any dealers out there who want to give statistics???
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WE will never know!!! A better question is, How many TERRORISTS have sneaked into this country across the mexican border??!!!!!! THEY know how EASY it is to sneak in here too!!!!!!!!! If we had a president with any balls, he would have CLOSED the borders BEFORE 9-11, when there was "chatter" that something BIG was going to happen in the U.S.!!! NOW,six years LATER, he decides to put the guard on the border. But, it's NOT to keep out terrorists, it's ALL FOR SHOW!!!!!!!!!
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Yes\nIf We Do Not Stop The Incredible Flow Of ILLEGAL Aliens,\nThe US Will Lose Its Status As A First World Nation\n\nMore than 20 million illegal aliens presently reside in the United States, with roughly 12,000 additional illegal aliens entering every day.\nhttp://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html#howManyIllegals\n\nIn Comparison, The Populations Of The Following 18 States COMBINED Equals  21,149,673 \nRanked By Population \n34 -  Utah -               2,469,585 \n35 -  Nevada -             2,414,807 \n36 -  New Mexico -         1,928,384 \n37 -  West Virginia -      1,816,856 \n38 -  Nebraska -           1,758,787 \n39 -  Idaho -              1,429,096 \n40 -  Maine -              1,321,505 \n41 -  New Hampshire -      1,309,940 \n42 -  Hawaii -             1,275,194 \n43 -  Rhode Island -       1,076,189 \n44 -  Montana -              935,670 \n45 -  Delaware -             843,524 \n46 -  South Dakota -         775,933 \n47 -  Alaska -               663,661 \n48 -  North Dakota -         636,677 \n49 -  Vermont -              623,050 \n(n/a) District of Columbia - 550,521 \n50 -  Wyoming -              509,294                    \n                                                    \n                           = 21,149,673\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population\n\nNot all illegal aliens come from Mexico.\n \n---In 1997, the Illegal Alien population was 54 percent Mexican. \n---The Illegal Alien population is currently 70 percent Mexican, with 30 percent coming from other countries. \n\nLatin America, including Mexico, is the source of 90 percent of illegal aliens entering into the United States.\n\nA 2004 Fox News article stated that "it is not just Mexicans who are flooding into our border states anymore.  Along with the Nicaraguans, Brazilians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, and Chileans,  agents of the Border Patrol now encounter Chinese, Pakistanis, and Indians.  Nationals of countries other than Mexico are known, in Border Patrol parlance, as 'OTMs'" - Other Than Mexicans. \n\nhttp://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html#howManyIl...\n\nOn January 9, 2004, President Bush proposed a guest worker program - a thinly veiled amnesty for illegal aliens. \nA February 29, 2004, Fox News article subsequently stated that from 50 percent to 90 percent of illegal aliens apprehended claimed they were coming here for the "amnesty" (their words). One Border Patrol officer stated that "They believe that they are only responding to an invitation." \nIn fact, official Border Patrol apprehension statistics show that total 2004 apprehensions as of June 30, 2004  represent a 190 Increase over total 2003 apprehensions.\n\n\nFrom the Los Angeles Times: \n\n--Over two-thirds of ALL births (66 Percent) are to Illegal Alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by the Taxpayers\n\n--40 percent of all workers are working for cash and not paying taxes. Why would they want to be legal and pay taxes?\n\n--Over 300,000 Illegal Aliens are living in garages\n\n--Less than 2 percent of Illegal Aliens are picking crops\n\n--29 percent of Illegal Aliens are on welfare.\n\n--Nearly 25 percent of all inmates in California Detention Centers are Illegal Aliens. \n\n--29 percent of inmates in the Federal Prisons are Illegal Aliens. \n\n--It cost Los Angeles $276 Million in welfare costs for 100,000 children of Illegal Aliens in 2004\n\nMexico is NOT a poor country. \nIt has the fifth richest economy in the world, and by sending its teeming masses to our country, that status keeps on rising. Mexico has more resources per square mile than the U.S. and plenty of money to take care of its own people.\nYet ILLEGAL Aliens From Mexico send about $39 BILLION (B)Annually back to Mexico to assist their families and prop up the corrupt Mexican government that keeps most of its citizens in poverty.\n\nThe Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the
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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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80% of the illegals that are coming across the border are not even Mexicans. They are from Guatamala and El Salvador , Panama, China and so on. Its not the Mexicans that are crossing over the border except for maybe a few. Now 1000's cross everyday with a Visa to go shopping in San Diego and in doing so are paying mega cash into state tax which who is benifiting from? They arent because they are go back home.  Yeah the government in Mexico sucks but things are changing slowly and thats because who ever tries to change things to fast and are noticed those people disappear. A few years back Colossio who was running for President came to Tijuana to speak and since he was wanting to change things for the people he was shot. In your question you said " it will take some Blood , sweat and tears . and thats how we made this country what it is.  Now I ask you Whos blood sweat and tears  made this country? Yours?  Whos blood and sweat do you think made The US?  AMericans?   American is not a race, it is a name given to a country in which every race of the world came together to build the country.
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Mexico is not eligible for green cards. And those people need to have jobs, quick. So they hop across the border.
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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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Estimating the gross numbers of illegals entering the U.S.,  Census figures show that 90 percent of illegal immigration comes from Latin America, with 70 percent of the total from Mexico. \nThe last decade has witnessed a tidal wave of illegal Mexican immigration. \nThe Center for Immigration Studies noted: \n"Indeed, the last decade saw an unprecedented number of Mexicans cross the U.S. border. Between 1990 and 2000, their number doubled- from 4.2 million to 9.2 million, or 30 percent of the entire foreign-born population in the United States. Within this number, unauthorized Mexicans grew by more than 100 percent - from 2 million to 4.8 million, or 69 percent of all illegal aliens in the United States."\n\nThough the Mexican government should be embarrassed that 10 percent of its people have fled to the U.S. from Mexico, President Vicente Fox's administration has embraced this reality. In fact, increasing the number of Mexicans working illegally in the United States is among Mexico's highest foreign policy objectives.\n\nOf course, not all illegal aliens come from Mexico. \nIn 1997, the illegal alien population was 54 percent Mexican. \nThe illegal alien population is currently 70 percent Mexican, \nwith 30 percent coming from other countries. \nLatin America, including Mexico, is the source of 90 percent of illegal aliens entering into the United States.\n\n A 2004 Fox News article stated that "it is not just Mexicans who are flooding into our border states anymore.  Along with the Nicaraguans, Brazilians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, and Chileans,  agents of the Border Patrol now encounter Chinese, Pakistanis, and Indians.  Nationals of countries other than Mexico are known, in Border Patrol parlance, as 'OTMs'" - Other Than Mexicans.\n\nseeing a pattern here??\n\n"and Im not aware of any Mexican terrorists"\n\nhttp://www.washtimes.com/national/20040928-123346-3928r.htm\nA top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States — \n\nhttp://www.mexidata.info/id381.html\nRecently there have been reported sightings of al-Qaeda operatives in Honduras. According to some observers, their alleged presence in that country conforms to their desire to secure land routes to the United States,\n\nhttp://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/03/09/possible_al_qaeda_infiltration_worries_fbi_chief/\nWASHINGTON -- FBI director Robert Mueller told Congress yesterday that people from countries with ties to Al Qaeda have crossed into the United States from Mexico, using false identities.\n\nhttp://www.usbc.org/info/2005/feb/alqaedalikely.htm\nU.S. officials say Mexican traffickers are increasingly smuggling people from some countries that Washington says are state sponsors of terrorism. One smuggler on the route said he would take anyone, even Osama bin Laden, for a price. 'Just as long as he paid me, I'd take him. I'd take whoever,' said the seasoned immigrant trafficker in the desert near Mexicali, just across from California.\n\n Anyone else seeing a pattern here??\n\nOur IDIOT President has made a choice to send the National Guard to the Mexican border to help assist in preventing illegal immigration.(FINALLY, The IDIOT Stepped Up And Did Something Right)
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the mexican-american border. :p, a lil racist. but im mexican so it's ok :D
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Not at the current time, however come then end of 2006  you will need one it you travel via air or sea to Canada or Mexico.  The end of 2007 all ways of travel into Canada and Mexico you will need one.  Check site below!   It would be better for you to have one any way to cross, less hassle.  As one poster stated, its easy to cross over into Canada, but coming back across to America, its harder for an American to regain entry then one from another country trying to get in.   The custom people here in the states will allow terrorist, murderers, etc to come into the USA, but give a true American citizen a hard time.   Retire military get treated like crap, I know I was drilled when I came back from a visit to friends in Canada.  Spend the money now on a passport, use it both crossing over to Canada and especially coming back to the United States.
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NEW: Homeland Security Report:\nhttp://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf \n\n40 pages of reports and pictures of pure insanity!\n\nDuring the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border.
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About 371,000,000. But this amount doesn't include the population of Mexico, Central America or Caribbean.