Bush Amnesty Plan Producing Huge Increase of Illegals
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Recent press reports say that illegal immigration is skyrocketing since President Bush announced his amnesty plan. For example, World Net Daily reported, "U.S. Border Patrol officials report a 15 percent increase in the use of fraudulent documents at the world's busiest land border crossing [San Ysidro]."...
A Washington Times report said basically the same thing: "The number of illegal aliens being apprehended on the southwestern border has jumped 25 percent in the first three months of 2004 compared with last year, and some are blaming President Bush's immigration proposal in January for enticing immigrants across the border."
The Times quoted Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, as saying, "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you the president's speech was the catalyst for lots of folks to make their way north and try to get into this country in order to get what they accurately believe to be amnesty."
In two Arizona sectors, Yuma and Tucson, illegal immigration is up 60 percent and 51 percent, respectively. Apprehensions are up 222 percent in the Yuma sector alone. In fact, six of the nine southwestern sectors saw increases compared to last year.
The question must be asked, "Did not President Bush realize that his amnesty proposal would result in dramatic increases in illegal immigration? And, if so, why would he propose such an absurd idea, especially during a time when America is fighting a war against terrorism?"...
On the issue of illegal immigration, there is nary a difference between the two major parties. Bush and his fellow Republicans want illegal aliens in the country so their big business contributors can continue to hire cheap labor. Democrats want illegal aliens in the country in the hopes that they will obtain voting privileges, as most of them would tend to vote Democratic. Of course, President Bush is also hopeful that his overtures to millions of illegal Mexican aliens will endear him, and the Republican Party, to the Hispanic vote....
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