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63% of Adult Illegals Have Lived in US for 10+ Years

Short-term illegals down due to bad economy, better enforcement

By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 2, 2011 9:40 AM CST

(Newser) – About 63% of the 10.2 million adult illegal immigrants in the United States have been living here for 10 years or more, and 46% have children, reports the LA Times. A study by the Pew Hispanic Center says that the number of long-term illegals has soared over the past decade, with the percentage of illegal adults who have lived in the United States at least 15 years now at 35%, up from 16% in 2000.

The Pew report says that the number of long-term illegal immigrants reflects the higher numbers that were able to enter the United States in the 1990s, while the declining percentage of unauthorized immigrants who have been in America less than five years stems from better border enforcement and the recession: The percentage of those who have been in the US for less than five years stood at 15% in 2010, down from 32% a decade earlier.

In this photo taken May 10, 2011, fieldworkers pick onion bulbs on a Vidalia onion farm in Lyons, Ga.
In this photo taken May 10, 2011, fieldworkers pick onion bulbs on a Vidalia onion farm in Lyons, Ga.   (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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DaveFrancis
Dec 2, 2011 8:52 PM CST
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, GINGRICH, E-VERIFY, AMERICAN WORKERS AND YOUR TAXES. Unless the former speaker’s supporters thrust him back from this plan of promising this even bigger amnesty, than the giant blanket amnesty of 1986 that was supposed to be the first and last one ever will be dwarfed in comparison. Probably the largest portion of the TEA PARTY membership; clearly recognized as the ‘American People’ of every racial persuasion, of every background, every age group and faith relationship are against a mass amnesty.   The most recent poll finds that Republican voters have elevated Newt Gingrich to presidential front runner status. But it is hard to consider that those supporting him concur with his  amnesty agenda or are even alert that Gingrich suggestion sounds like it would give U.S. jobs and residency to approximately 3.5 million illegal aliens (according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study)        You can send an email to Gingrich by Google his site  http://www.newt.org/contact.  Click on the "Platform" option and make him aware of what you want him to change and how you feel about his immigration platform.    GINGRICH, BUSH & OBAMA SEE ONLY THE OPTIONS OF DEPORTATION OR LEGALIZATION (Attrition through Enforcement isn't in their terminology) Go to NumbersUSA to study the damage of legalizing of at least 3.5 million will cause. Of course that is if you accept the ridiculous notion that only 11.5 million migrants and immigrants have settled illegal in America. More near the mark is somewhere over 20 million population figure.   Gingrich agrees with former President Bush and also Obama that the only major exceptions for illegal aliens are deporting them or legalizing them (choices that almost all Liberal mainstream press also insist on).    His official immigration proposal gives no tip-off of recognizing that there is a third option --  ‘ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT ‘ purging the jobs and welfare magnets for foreign nationals, thus that they will self-deport back to their homes in other nations. Hence, Gingrich is at odds with most of the other GOP candidates and most GOP Members of Congress, The Tea Party who favor the Attrition alternative.   PROBLEM IS since brazenly advocated his legalization agenda in the debate last week, he has informed his critics by telling them to read his official “TEN STEPS TO A LEGAL NATION “and his “7-Point Plan.” Those have read this roadmap to legalization and studied both and are more alarmed than ever.   We are in agreement with Gingrich and the Pew Center, that Gingrich is not suggesting-- a blanket amnesty contrasting differently from Bush and Obama. There are two key opportunities in Gingrich's proposals so far for limiting the harm:   Because Gingrich would never tolerate his amnestied illegal aliens to become U.S. citizens, they would not be able to use the CHAIN MIGRATION CATEGORIES TO BRING INTO AMERICA UNCEASING LINES OF EXTENDED FAMILY MEMBERS from their homelands.   The 1986 President Reagan amnesty naturalized an estimated 3 million illegal aliens.  But seeing as millions more of their relatives have been brought to this country, it multiplied the harm to American workers, infrastructure and taxpayers. The cost supplied by the Heritage Foundation for a blanket amnesty, was around the $2.6 Trillion dollars for processing. During the processing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens were admitted through the use of fraudulent documents.  Currently, voters should not be misinformed by Gingrich's public use of examples of illegal aliens who have been in the U.S. for 25 years. What about 20 years or even 10 years? Even 5 years is not mentioned?  Nothing on his website or the ‘10 Step or 7 points’ limits that Gingrich Amnesty proposal to people who have been here 25 years or more. In fact, nothing puts any kind of time limit. To qualify for the Gingrich Amnesty right now, one need only have “deep ties” of “family, church and community?”    Gingrich supporters should require him to at least persuade a 25-year residency requirement in his website amnesty plan. Otherwise we could end up with millions more people attracted by his clemency and rising the costs to even higher layers of schools for their children, health care, the food stamps, WIC, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); WIC a federally-funded health and nutrition program for women, infants, and children.  WIC helps families by providing checks for buying healthy supplemental foods from WICK-authorized vendors, nutrition education, and help finding healthcare and other community services. Low income housing, and even more supplementary programs, which our old, infirm and homeless are ineligible for?   This is your money the government is spending, taking it forcibly from your taxes. Go to any emergency hospital they are packed with foreign nationals with their children. Go to any border state school that has a present enrollment of 87 percent children of illegal aliens. It costs $113 billion dollars annually now Heritage Foundation), that is going to spiral to another astronomical figure in another year, five years or ten? Then go to Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and Indiana and observe the long lines of people—American residents and even more foreigners with huge numbers of babies in baby carriages and walking beside the mother, waiting to get in the Department of human services, waiting to get a charge card. God! American cannot even feed their own families or keep a roof over their head? THESE ARE ALL UNFUNDED MANDATES LEFT FOR YOU TO PAY?     The paramount problem is, if Gingrich wins and passes his idea of an amnesty to the Congress, then on being made law millions more will try and reach this nation? One the clarion call goes out from word of mouth, across the airwaves—unfettered numbers will be encouraged to come?   Sovereignty minded Americans should contact the Ways and Means Committee accountable for bringing E-VERIFY ‘The Legal Workforce Act’, bill H.R.2885 to the House floor in Congress. Only the American voter or legal resident has a voice in this urgent matter, which will decrease large numbers of jobs procured by the 8.2 illegal workers, which is estimated to self-deport. The number to call for the Washington politicians is 202-224-3121. The legislators need to pay attention to the People, instead of misleading us anymore. If you have further questions read about the widespread corruption in the federal and state governments at ‘Judicial Watch.’  Be attentive that the TEA PARTY does not agree with any kind of Amnesty, Dream Acts or Sanctuary cities.
jamiealex1569
Dec 2, 2011 7:53 PM CST
All the illegals need to get the hell out of America, and take their anchor babies, mexican flags, gangbangers, lazy, eating away at all of our government substedies, hands always out wanting more freebees, non english speaking, rude assholes with them!!!!!!!!
HappyHabenero
Dec 2, 2011 6:24 PM CST
so they stayed here way to long as it is...deport them

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