Surge in illegal immigration from Mexico
Anthony Spangler:
Illegal immigrants have become more intertwined in American society, with nearly one-third of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants having at least one immediate family member who is a U.S. citizen, a new study shows.
The study released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center found that nearly two-thirds of those new arrivals came in the last decade. They are mostly young families from Mexico.
"They're intertwined in American society to an unprecedented extent," said Roberto Surro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C.
Texas ranks second to California with 1.4 million illegals and was the only traditional destination state to increase its share of new arrivals, rising from 11 percent in 1990 to 14 percent in 2002-04, the study shows.
The other traditional destination states - California, New York, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey - saw a decline or held steady.
But the number of illegal immigrants outside of these states soared - from 400,000 to 3.9 million since 1990.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 12:09 PM
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6 Comments:
"immediate family member"
It is good to point this out.
Anyone thinking about amnesty for illegals here now should consider the consequences under current immigration law -- quota and non-quota follow-on immigration due to family reunification.
Previous comment is right on target because right behind minor children and wife or husband are parents, followed by siblings. Once siblings are legally here, they too can set off the family chain of immigration. I recently read that something like 400,000 immigrants qualify for SSI without having paid a dime into the system. I suspect that these are sick, old parents brought into the US by their children, who instead of taking care of them themselves are moving them onto the US taxpayers.
I recently read that something like 400,000 immigrants qualify for SSI without having paid a dime into the system.
So much for the canard that immigration will "save" social security.
"suspect"
As the author of the first comment, I can tell you this is without a doubt true. I remember one particular occasion quite vividly: I'm sitting in my cubicle (think 'Dilbert') one day at work while a Chinese colleague next door worked the phone trying to arrange the whole gamut of benefits for his just-off-the-boat parents, whom he and his wife had brought over from China. A lot of this is, of course, in full violation of legally binding pledges signed by the sponsor.
This link (sorry about the format) provides more info regarding this practice, with a special focus on Chinese immigrants:
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/WelfareUse/WelfareUsageReport/FullNMReport.html#tth_sEc1
Somewhat related is a recent lawsuit in southern California, filed to try to get such sponsors to live up to, or to get the government to force them to live up to, their legal obligation to support the sponsored immigrant -- in this case it was about medical care.
Well, the link didn't come thru at all.
But if you Google:
matloff welfare use by legal immigrants
It should be the 2nd link that comes up: "Welfare use among elderly immigrants".
It should be kept in mind that there could be 2 sets of sick old parents - the wife's and the husband's. When you get to siblings, obviously one set of parents could already be here in the US, but the sibling can then bring in his wife (or her husband) who would then be able to bring in another set of sick old parents.
Assuming - and it's by no means a sure thing - that the initial legal immigrant was allowed into the US as a result of special skills, he could pull in a large pool of relatives that have absolutely nothing to offer to the US - and a lot to take from the US - simply because he is their relative.
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