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Rightwing News posted Answering 13 Frequently Asked Questions About Illegal Immigration. Please take the time to read this as it is very informative…

1) How many illegal aliens are there in the United States? Since they’re not here legally, there’s no way to do a precise count. Most estimates are in the 10-12 million range, but some people believe as few as 8 million illegal immigrants are here and others think the count may go as high as 20 million plus.

2) How do the American people feel about illegal immigration? Time and time again, across numerous polls, the American people have expressed displeasure with our lax border security and illegal immigration. Here’s some info on some of the more recent polling data from a column written yesterday by Tony Blankley.
Unquestionably, the American people see illegal immigration as a problem and want the borders to be secured.

3) So, if the American people oppose illegal immigration, why does Congress seem so reluctant to do anything about it? The Democrats look at illegal aliens as an easy way to pad their vote totals. Because Hispanics tend to vote for Democrats in disproportionate numbers, 10 million illegal immigrants could translate into a net gain of 2-3 million potential voters for the Democrats once they become US citizens.

Republicans tend to be hesitant to crack down on illegal immigration because they fear alienating Hispanic immigrants and because the members of the business community who make money by hiring illegal aliens, funnel part their ill gotten gains into Republican (and to a lesser extent, Democratic) coffers.

This leads to a situation where many Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill talk tough about illegal immigration and border security in order to placate the voters, but in actuality, they work hard to keep the flow of illegal aliens from being cut off.

Here’s Mark Krikorian giving some examples of how our lawmakers often work behind-the-scenes to thwart our immigration laws.

4) What about Pete Wilson, the former governor of California? Didn’t he try to crack down on illegal immigration and wasn’t there a backlash against Republicans because of it? This is a myth that has been seized upon by pro-illegal immigrant forces, but it doesn’t bear up under scrutiny.

In 1994, Pete Wilson supported Prop 187, a bill that cut off government services to illegal aliens. Prop 187 passed with the support of 59% of the voters (including 31% of the Hispanic vote). So, did Wilson get buried by the “backlash?” No, instead he won a 15 point landslide victory.

Fast forward to 2006. The current Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger voted for Prop 187, had Pete Wilson as the co-chair of his campaign, said he would not approve driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, and was still elected in a very liberal state that’s 34% Hispanic.

The idea that being tough on illegal immigrants is guaranteed to cause a massive backlash for Republicans at the polls simply isn’t true.

5) Well, what about an Amnesty for illegals? Didn’t we have one of those before? Back in 1986, during the Reagan administration, illegal aliens who were already here were allowed to become American citizens. Basically, it was supposed to be a one time amnesty for illegals and in return, security measures would be beefed up to take care of the illegal immigrant problem once and for all.

However, in practice what happened was that once the illegal immigrants were made citizens, the enforcement provisions weren’t treated seriously, and even more illegal aliens poured across the border hoping to get in on the next amnesty.

Today? We’re talking about essentially the same sort of proposal in the Senate. Allowing illegal aliens to become citizens in return for security measures, in practice, may or may not actually ever be put into place.

6) If illegals weren’t allowed to become citizens, what would be the problem with allowing illegal aliens who are already here to stay as guest workers? There are at least three major problems with allowing illegal aliens to stay here as guest workers.

Number one, many Americans don’t realize this, but there are countless millions of foreigners waiting patiently to enter the United States the right way. To allow the illegals who are already here to stay rewards lawbreakers and makes the people who respected our laws look like chumps.

Number two, when you reward illegal behavior and treat people who obey the law like chumps, you can expect more lawbreaking. In other words, if we allow the illegals who are already here to stay here, we can expect another massive onslaught of illegals to enter our country because we’ll have shown them that breaking our laws pays.

Number three, if we give the illegal aliens who are already here free passes that allow them to continue working and create a guest worker program, there’s a very real danger that what we’ll end up with is a guest worker program AND massive numbers of illegals pouring into the country. As was mentioned earlier in this FAQ, the politicians in Washington have a heavy incentive to keep the flow of illegals going and they’ve lied before about crack downs on illegal immigration. So, you can’t simply take the Federal government’s word for it when they say they’re going to toughen up security in return for a guest worker program. Americans will only be able to believe it when it happens.

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