The History Of Illegal Immigration

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A Brief History of Illegal Immigration in the United States “We should honor every legal immigrant here, working hard to become a new citizen. But we are also a nation of laws.�

President Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996 Illegal immigration has long been a problem in the United States, especially since the latter half of the twentieth century.

If you are interested in ALIPAC's role fighting against illegal immigration and amnesty since 9/11 of 2004, then you can learn more about the recent history of illegal immigration reviewing our efforts at this (link). We also have information about the history of Obama and illegal immigration for you to learn more about, along with the problems with illegal immigration and how to report illegals.

The origins of illegal immigration date to the late nineteenth century. In 1875, a federal law was passed which prohibited entry of convicts and prostitutes. In 1882 President Chester A. Arthur banned almost all Chinese immigration to the United States but many still came as illegal immigrants, and shortly thereafter barred paupers, criminals and the mentally ill from entering.

Although this affected only a small percentage of immigrants, there were now distinctions between legal and illegal immigration. Before this, immigration was barely regulated.

Ellis Island, the New York portal for immigrants, opened in 1892 and became the nation’s premier federal immigration station. New arrivals were required to prove their identities, answer a series of questions, find a friend or relative who could vouch for them, and were scanned for physical ailments. When it ended operation in 1954, Ellis Island had processed over 12 million legal immigrants.

During the large wave of immigration from 1881 to 1920, nearly 23½ million immigrants poured into the United States from all over the world. In 1921, Congress passed a Quota Law that reduced immigration to 357,000 a year and limited the number of immigrants from any one country. In 1924 immigration was reduced further to 160,000 a year, and in 1929, immigration was cut to 157,000 and quotas were again reset based on national origins in the 1920 U.S. Census.

The rationale was that these laws would ensure the existing ethnic composition of the country and help assimilate the 15 million southern and eastern Europeans who had entered the previous forty years.

However, the door was left open for Mexicans (who even then were desired by employers for their cheap labor) and northern Europeans. As history would show, this legal immigration led to illegal immigration and foreshadowed today’s debate on these topics. During the 1920s illegal immigration was the subject of heated Congressional debates. Edward H. Dowell, vice-president of the California Federation of Labor, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Immigration in February of 1928 about the burden of the unrestricted flow of Mexicans on the state’s taxpayers, prisons, hospitals and American workers’ wages. He estimated that while 67,000 Mexicans entered the U.S. legally the prior year, many times that number entered illegally.

Furthermore, a Los Angeles Times story from April 1926 noted that many of the ranch workers in California’s Imperial Valley entered the U.S. illegally without passing the (then) literacy test and did not pay the $18 entrance fee. In February of 1929, the U.S. House Immigration Committee heard testimony from government officials about problems at the border with both Canada and Mexico, including steps that were taken to eliminate the “visa mill” at Juarez (opposite El Paso), where were found “the most lax conditions imaginable in connection with inspection of persons wishing to enter the United States.” Visas were required for legal residency.

Immigration dropped sharply during the lean years of the Great Depression. After the stock market crashed in 1929, the U.S. tightened visa rules which markedly reduced Mexican immigration. Local, state and federal government officials debated what to do with those already here. Some Mexicans repatriated themselves either voluntarily or under pressure from local

welfare officials. Others were deported. Eventually between about 500,000 to 1,000,000 Mexicans left the United States between 1929 and 1939. This was due to deportation, as well as other factors such as the threat of deportation and acute unemployment.

This repatriation began during President Herbert Hoover’s administration and reached its peak in the early 1930s. It also applied to all alien groups, not just Mexicans. Hoover believed they were taking jobs from Americans, and endorsed a vigorous effort to reduce legal and illegal entries and expel “undesirable aliens.” Deportations and repatriations of Mexicans and others decreased (along with legal immigration) during President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration, during the Great Depression, but did not end. In July 1935, for example, Roosevelt ordered a large deportation of alien criminals (such as mail robbers), but exempted Mexican and Canadian criminals due to the fear that they would sneak back in.

Today’s high level of problems with illegal immigration originated during the war years of the early 1940s. Labor shortages caused the federal government to set up a program to import Mexican laborers to work temporarily in agriculture, primary in the Southwest. This was called the Bracero Program. The goal was to import foreign workers (originally thought to number in the hundreds) during agricultural harvest and then encourage them to go home.

Over the next two decades about 4.8 million Mexican workers came into the country and provided cheap labor to many U.S. employers. Although braceros were supposed to be hired only if an adequate number of Americans could not be found, employers preferred the foreign workers who were willing to work for lesser wages. The program finally ended in 1964 due to complaints from unions and Mexican-Americans that these foreigners were taking jobs from them. Not surprisingly, many of the former braceros reentered and worked in the U.S. illegally -many for the same employers. Illegal immigration increased greatly during the years of the supposed “temporary work” Bracero Program. The Los Angeles Times reported in May 1950 that 21,000 Mexican nationals had “flooded across Mexican border into the United States during April” and complained about the overworked, understaffed border patrolmen and the “the endless wave of line jumpers, unprecedented in the nation’s history.” The argument about jobs “Americans won’t do” was recited by an employer, while the authorities stressed the need to enforce the law.

During President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first term, it was estimated that illegal Mexican border crossings had grown to about 1 million. Such a massive illegal workforce had a devastating impact on the wages of American workers. Eisenhower, concerned about corruption that resulted from the profits of illegal labor, took decisive action. In 1954 he appointed General Joseph Swing to head the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Shortly thereafter, “Operation Wetback” was launched. With only 1,075 Border Patrol agents, tens of thousands of illegal aliens were caught and sent back deep into Mexico. Hundreds of thousands more returned to their homeland voluntarily. Illegal immigration had dropped 95% by the end of the 1950s.

But it was not to last, as seen in prior decades, after the 1965 Immigration Act passed, while legal immigration increased sharply, illegal immigration rose right along with it. As the Center for Immigration Studies noted, this increased immigration in part because Congress “shifted the legal preference system to family relations and away from employment needs and immigrant ability.” Senator Edward Kennedy said at the time: “The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.” However, this bill spurred “chain migration” which fueled illegal immigration, along with a sense of entitlement amongst illegal

immigrants. In subsequent decades, Mexico has become the primary source country of both legal and illegal immigration.

Many illegal aliens also use the lure of “birthright citizenship,” (a/k/a “anchor babies”) to circumvent U.S. immigration laws and gain permanent residency, if not citizenship. This is a misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that grants U.S. citizenship on those born on American soil, including children of illegal aliens. Illegal immigrants know that the odds are low that U.S. immigration authorities will deport them, if they have a child who is an American citizen (and who as a bonus also qualifies for taxpayer-funded benefits).

Since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Congress has passed seven amnesties: 1. Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA), 1986: A blanket amnesty for over 2.7 million illegal aliens 2. Section 245(i) Amnesty, 1994: A temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens 3. Section 245(i) Extension Amnesty, 1997: An extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994 4. Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty, 1997: An amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America 5. Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA), 1998: An amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti 6. Late Amnesty, 2000: An amnesty for some illegal aliens who claim they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty, an estimated 400,000 illegal aliens 7. LIFE Act Amnesty, 2000: A reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty, an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens The largest of these amnesties was the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) which amnestied about 3 million illegal aliens. This law was supposed to be a compromise -- an attempt to finally limit illegal immigration through strengthened border security and increased immigration enforcement against employers -- combined with amnesty for the millions of illegal workers in the United States. Illegal immigrants who had resided in the U.S. for five years and met other conditions received temporary legal status, which could be later upgraded to citizenship.

President Ronald Reagan approved this “path to citizenship” amnesty due to what was believed to be a relatively small illegal immigrant population. Unlike many current politicians and amnesty proponents, Reagan called this what it was: amnesty. Unfortunately, there was widespread document fraud and the number of illegal aliens seeking amnesty far exceeded expectations. Most importantly, there was no political will to enforce the law against employers.

The 1986 IRCA amnesty failed and actually led to millions of more people entering the United States illegally.

While President Bill Clinton made some efforts to combat illegal immigration during the 1990s,

the problem remained. In 1996 the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 was passed. Still, leaders from Central American and Caribbean nations relied heavily on untaxed remittances sent back to their countries from the United States, and worried that Clinton would support mass deportations. While at least paying lip service to enforcement of laws, Clinton assured these leaders that there would be no mass deportations. There were about 7 million illegal aliens residing in the U.S. when he left office.

The eight years of President George W. Bush’s administration saw a marked increase in illegal immigration and a drop in immigration enforcement throughout much of his tenure. For example, the number of illegal aliens arrested in workplace cases fell from nearly 3,000 in 1999 to 445 in 2003, with the number of criminal cases against employers during this period falling from 182 to four. Not surprisingly, by 2005, there were an estimated 10-20 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Even at the end of 2007 after the Bush administration’s enforcement crackdown had been underway; only 92 criminal arrests of employers had taken place, in an economy that, according to the Washington Post, includes 6 million businesses that employ more than 7 million illegal foreign workers.

Despite the failure of past amnesties and the fact that these increase illegal immigration, Bush repeatedly pushed mass legalization (amnesty) schemes for illegal immigrants using the wellworn line that they “are doing jobs Americans will not” or “are not” doing. One scheme was the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act 2007 which was defeated by widespread popular opposition.

Today, over 1 million immigrants enter our country legally per year, while the illegal alien population grows by about 500,000 per year. Most of those who violate our borders and enter illegally come from Mexico and other Latin American countries. Only about 6 percent of the illegals come from Canada and Europe. Close to half of all illegal immigrants now residing in the U.S. did not enter illegally but rather overstayed their visas. Just as the federal government has historically failed to secure its borders, it has concurrently failed to closely monitor visa holders.

About 12-20 million illegal aliens currently reside in the United States. California has more illegals than any other state, at about 2.4 million. Others states with high illegal alien populations include Texas, Florida and New York, although many states are now impacted.

Americans of all backgrounds are still seriously concerned about the negative impact of illegal immigration, such as with the number of bankrupted hospitals, overcrowded schools, and increased crime. Taxpayers pay dearly for this, illustrating the high cost of so-called “cheap labor” for some unscrupulous employers and their political allies who for decades have watered down immigration laws. For example, in California alone, as of 2004 the net cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers is estimated to be nearly $9 billion annually.

Despite Americans’ opposition to illegal immigration and amnesty, open border advocates are pressuring President Barack Obama to pass yet another mass amnesty for illegal aliens. These special interests and their allies in the mainstream media continually attempt to re frame the debate away from the core issues (e.g., illegality, sovereignty, overpopulation, fiscal costs), and redefine the terms used in the debate. The most common euphemisms for amnesty used by the open-border lobby are: “comprehensive immigration reform,” “pathway to citizenship,” “earned legalization,” “guest” or “temporary worker plan,” and bringing “undocumented immigrants” “out of the shadows.” Citizens concerned about illegal immigration should also be aware that

pro-illegal alien advocates often offer the false choice between either mass deportation or mass amnesty. They say that since we can’t “round up and deport 12 million people” we have to provide them with a “pathway to citizenship” (i.e. amnesty).

You can learn more about ALIPAC's and William Gheen's history of fighting illegal immigration and amnesty here at www.ALIPAC.us. Our archives are the largest collection of information about the history of illegal immigration in the world! While we encourage you to report illegal aliens, you need to get involved with our movement to have our laws enforced too!

However, there is a common sense, humane and cost-effective way to solve the problem of illegal immigration, without resorting to either mass deportation or amnesty. This is called “attrition through enforcement” wherein if our existing immigration laws are consistently enforced and jobs cut off, the number of illegal aliens will return to their home countries over time. This middle-ground strategy is endorsed by real immigration reform groups such as ALIPAC and NumbersUSA. Acknowledgements: Special thanks to NumbersUSA for the history of amnesties.

The Problems With Illegal Immigration There are many problems associated with illegal immigration and illegal immigrants, which is why America has existing immigration and border laws designed to protect our citizens.

The main problems caused by illegal immigration are lost jobs, depreciated wages, stolen taxpayer resources, and increased numbers of crimes and domestic terrorism. Each of these problems harms Americans in many ways.

Millions of American citizens are out of work or unable to find a job because we have 12-20 million illegal aliens in America due to politicians like Obama supporting illegal immigration instead of protecting Americans.

A historic number of Americans have lost their jobs and lost their homes due to foreclosure because of illegal immigration. Less desirable jobs that Americans would take to provide for their families are either held by illegal immigrants or the flood of illegals have depreciated wages so low that an American cannot make ends meet working in those lost jobs!

ALIPAC estimates that illegal immigrants are stealing over 125 Billion dollars worth of American taxpayer resources each year. Illegal immigrants are in our country against the wishes of American citizens. They are breaking our laws and yet as taxpayers we are forced to pay for their education, their healthcare needs, increased infrastructure to handle their presence in our land, and increased costs in our courts and prisons.

And when American citizens need these taxpayer resources, we find illegal immigrants filling our emergency rooms, classrooms, and courthouses demanding that we speak their language and provide free interpreters for them!

All across America, our suffering citizens are standing in lines in grocery stores trying to make ends meet and barely able to feed their children while watching illegal immigrants use food

stamps and welfare to benefit their families ahead of us.

And then there are the terrible crimes that are committed by illegal aliens on American soil.

If you want to know who in America is politically responsible for all of the death and destruction caused by illegal immigration and amnesty for illegal immigrants then visit ALIPAC's illegal alien amnesty supporter list page for the names of the traitors, documentation of their role, and their contact information.

You will need to dig into the extensive archives here at www.ALIPAC.us to learn more about these crimes because the major media in America like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Associated Press, etc. are constantly running stories about how wonderful illegal aliens are and how they are suffering. They censor the stories about the hidden thousands of Americans who are being killed by illegal immigrants each year!

While not all illegal immigrants are involved in crimes beyond breaking into America, stealing American identities, and engaging in document fraud as most of them do, many do go on to worse crimes than those.

Illegal immigrants come from lawless third world countries where the gangs rule, not laws or Constitutions or elected officials. Many of them retain that "rape and pillage" mentality once they enter the US, and to make the problem worse, our own government shows illegal immigrants that they can violate our laws and get away with it!

That is why many illegals also drive drunk, burglarize homes and cars, molest children, join violent gangs, deal drugs, etc. They know that the US Government will turn a blind eye or only slap them on the wrist if they are caught, or if they become wanted for a serious crime, they can simply escape justice forever by returning to their home nation.

Each year in America thousands upon thousands of our innocent citizens lose their property, security, health, or lives because our own government refuses to honor its most basic and important role of protecting us from people outside of our nation who would come into our nation illegally and do us harm!

Crimes committed by are a big problem caused by illegal immigration and the nonenforcement of our laws, and how do you put a price tag on our losses from murder, rape, and theft?

From coast to coast, Americans are reporting illegals or illegal immigrants, and our Department of Homeland Security will not arrest or deport them until after an American has been severely injured, raped, or killed by an illegal.

Another problem with illegal immigration is the terrorists among the illegal immigrants coming into America. If there is a terrorist on planet Earth that wants to harm Americans who has not already illegally immigrated to our nation, then they are probably too stupid for us to worry about.

How many thousands of terrorists are now here waiting to strike because our own government has turned against Americans?

And then you have these gangs like MS-13 and Mexican Mafia that are shooting up neighborhoods and police stations, and having their initiates murder and gang rape people at random to join.

The 9/11 hijackers broke our immigration laws and were in America illegally, and received their student visas from our government after they had already attacked us on September 11, 2001!

One of the DC Snipers that killed so many people in Washington, DC, and Virginia was an illegal immigrant whom immigration agents had picked up from local police and then let go!

Another big problem with illegal immigration that the media won't talk about is how many illegal immigrants are voting in US elections stealing votes from Americans. ALIPAC believes that so many illegal aliens voted in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2010 they were able to save the campaign of US Senator Harry Reid from Tea Party challenger Sharron Angle!

The problems being caused by illegal immigration are numerous and severe, and they will all get worse if any form of amnesty is passed allowing illegal aliens to stay in America!

Below is a list of problems with illegal immigration seen throughout our history of illegal immigration that many of our ALIPAC activists have compiled for you to review and consider.

These problems along with other facts and statistics about illegal immigration should help you to understand this issue better. If you are willing to help us fight to stop and reverse illegal immigration then please join our e-mail alerts here at ALIPAC.us.

More Problems Associated with Illegal Immigration • • Anchor Babies: Birthright Citizenship Exploited • Anti-American Attitudes • Anti-Semitic Attitudes • Attacks on Border Patrol and Law Enforcement Agents • Attacks on Free Speech in America • Animal Abuse Increases • Census Numbers: Negative Impact on Congressional Representation • Civil rights: Devalued by comparison to illegal actions • Child Endangerment • Child Molestation • Closed and Overcrowded Hospitals and Emergency Rooms • Cost of Translators • Consulates issuing Matricular Cards (ID Mexico won't even accept) • Day Laborers loitering and creating public hazards • Depreciated Wages for Americans and Legal Immigrants • Deterioration of Common American Culture • Desecration of the American Flag: Foreign Flags used aggressively • Disrespect for American Laws • Document Fraud • Drunk driving injuries and deaths: Hit and Runs • Ethnic Cleansing and Race Riots

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Farm animals within city limits Food Poisoning Foreign Influence on US Politics Gangs, Graffiti, Drugs, Cartels, Smugglers, and Violence Gang Rape and unreported rapes High Birth Rates and Overpopulation Human Sex Slavery Identity Theft Increased Crime Increased Taxes for Americans Increased pressures on infrastructure (roads, traffic, water, sewer) Infectious Diseases Lost American Jobs Lost American Sovereignty Lost Self Governance of American citizens Vs. Globalism and Elitism Male Chauvinism: Gender inequality Not Speaking English, loss of common language, Press 1 for English Overcrowded Schools and Negative Impact on American Education Overcrowded single family homes Overcrowded Jails and Prisons Public Sanitation Loss: Trash and human waste in towns Racist Groups and Race Based Politics Remittances: Billions of dollars sent out of the US Economy Rule of Law: Fundamental principles of America sacrificed.

Separatist Movements: Demands for autonomy Smear Campaigns and Lies: Dirty Politics Stolen American Taxpayer Resources: Tuition, Welfare, Licenses Taking limited seats in colleges at taxpayer expense Taxpayer funds going to special interest groups (example) "La Raza" Terrorism Threats and Loss of national security Trash and Negative Impact on Environment at border Unfair to Legal Immigrants Unfair Business Competition for law abiding companies Unlicensed and Uninsured Motorists Untaxed Wages Voter Fraud

Obama & Illegal Immigration As the nation's 3rd largest grass roots organization fighting against illegal immigration and Amnesty for illegal immigrants, we are often asked about Barack Obama and illegal immigration.

Barack Obama has been the worst President in US History on the issue of illegal immigration and border security. George Bush was horrible on this issue and he left our borders open and our immigration laws unenforced during a time of war, but Obama is worse because he actually

supports illegal immigration, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and the destruction of the borders of the United States!

When Barack Obama came to power, he did not do much about illegal immigration. We had hoped that he would understand the history of illegal immigration and many of the problems with illegal immigration that Americans face such as job loss, depreciated wages for American workers, and stolen taxpayer resources. Not to mention the thousands of Americans who are losing their lives each year at the hands of illegal immigrants who are here in America because Barack Obama, and Bush before him, refused to enforce our existing immigration laws.

Barack Obama ended all raids of businesses hiring illegal aliens. Then, when he could not get amnesty legislation passed, he decided to create amnesty for illegals with a memo. That's right folks, not a law, and not an official Executive Order... a memo.

The United States is now under some new form of Martial Law where nationally destructive policies like Barack Obama's illegal immigration supporting DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) amnesty become our national policy with no legislation to back it up!

And the result of Barack Obama's illegal immigration supporting efforts is that our Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) union is suing Obama for issuing illegal orders to stop enforcing existing border and immigration laws in defiance of our Constitution and American way of governance!

In April of 2013, it is now being reported that illegal immigration has more than doubled and illegal immigrants are telling Border Patrol agents who capture them that "Obama is going to let me go!"

Sadly, far too many Americans do not recognize dictatorships or totalitarian rule as we do. But to help educate many Americans, ALIPAC has called for the impeachment of Barack Obama to be followed by charges of treason against the people of the United States. Furthermore, we never refer to him as "President" Barack Obama because we find his incredible disregard for the US Constitution, our existing immigration laws, our Congress, and the will of a large majority of American citizens who want secure borders instead of Amnesty to be treasonous!

Trying to report illegals during the administration of Barack Obama is almost a waste of time.

They rarely answer the phone at the reporting phone number, and when Obama and Napolitano's DHS agents do answer, they are often rude to callers. Then you have less than a 1% chance that they will act on your report!

Barack Obama is also releasing illegal alien invaders, including many violent criminals from detention centers. Barack Obama is literally unleashing violent illegal aliens out of the jail house gates and into your neighborhoods!

Barack Obama's administration has also been caught buying thousands of assault rifles for the murderous Mexican cartels that import over 90% of the illegal immigrants, methamphetamine, and cocaine into America! The scandals known as Fast and Furious and Operation Gunwalker are false flag operations where a large number of Barack Obama's federal law enforcement agencies used our tax monies to buy assault weapons for Mexican killers and then used the deaths in Mexico as a reason to try to destroy the Second Amendment Constitutional rights of American

citizens!

Yet, instead of bringing Barack Obama up on impeachment or gun trafficking charges, Congress is trying to rubber stamp Obama's illegal and unConstitutional amnesty decrees!

If you review our archives here at www.ALIPAC.us, you will learn as we have that Barack Obama is on the side of illegal immigration and illegal immigrants and against the American people. Unfortunately, you have to learn that by digging in on the facts about illegal immigration because our media appears to be controlled by the same nation building cabal that backs Obama!

Barack Obama and illegal immigration? Barack Obama is why illegal immigration stopped reversing and why more illegals than ever are spilling over our borders after Obama put most of our Border Patrol agents on furlough through sequestration!

When you lose your job to an illegal alien, or your loved one is killed by an illegal invader, you can thank Barack Obama for refusing to do his job to protect American citizens from people outside of our nation who would come here and do us harm. That is why the statistics about illegal immigration show most Americans are upset and want no form of amnesty for illegals.

He swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and that Constitution says Barack Obama is to protect all states from invasion and enforce the laws of Congress and he is refusing to do both!

On the issue of illegal immigration, Barack Obama is a traitor and should be impeached, put on trial, and incarcerated for his many crimes against the American public and the great deal of death and destruction our citizens are enduring at the hands of the illegal immigration Barack Obama supports and seeks to make permanent with amnesty!

If you oppose Barack Obama's support for illegal immigration and amnesty, please join our email alerts here at ALIPAC to join our fight to restore the Rule of Law, secured borders, and Constitutional governance for America.

With your help, we can Stop and Reverse Illegal Immigration in America!

Yours in the cause, William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team www.alipac.us

Illegal Immigration Facts and Statistics ALIPAC's collection of polls, surveys, information, facts, and statistics about illegal immigration 2013 (THIS PAGE LAST UPDATED: November 11, 2013) 60% oppose Obama and GOP leadership on immigration reform amnesty according to a new Pew Research poll. With 60% opposed, the poll also found "only about a third of the public

(32%) approves of the job Obama is doing on immigration policy."

(Oct. 30-Nov. 6. 2013, Pew Research Center poll) Only one in eight swing-voters strongly back amnesty, says Obama’s own polling firm!

Supporting immigration reform amnesty for illegal aliens is a big campaign loser for any district where swing voters are a concern. This middle non-partisan bloc comprises 51 percent of all voters found that just 12 percent of these middle-bloc respondents strongly support “providing illegal immigrants with a path to citizenship even though they have broken the rules,” while Thirty-eight percent of the middle-bloc strongly oppose the amnesty, creating a political minefield for the politicians who need to woo swing-voters. While those strongly opposed to amnesty dominate the strongly support group 38% vs 12% or 3 to 1, overall swing voters were 32% leaning amnesty and 54% leaning against!

(October 15 2013, NBC and Esquire magazine paid for this poll conducted by Obama’s Benenson Strategy Group, and Public Opinion Strategies, which was the primary polling firm for GOP candidate Gov. Mitt Romney) Illegal Immigrants will vote 8 to 1 Democrat if ever given citizenship by legislative amnesty such as the one contained in S. 744! Prior to citizenship 31% of illegal aliens identify as Democrats and just 4% as Republicans. For those already given amnesty, illegals in the US under ten years, 26 percent identified with Democrats against 9 percent for Republicans; for those who’d been in the US for over two decades, 54 percent identified as Democrats and 10 percent identified as Republicans.

(July 22, 2013, Pew Center Researc Poll) 53% of Americans want all or most illegal immigrants deported from the United States for immigration reform while only 36% favor the 'Gang of 8' amnesty legislation design to allow illegals to stay that is labeled as 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform'. Seventy-five percent of Republicans think all or most immigrants should be deported, compared to 40 percent of Democrats who think the same. (April 22, 2013, Reuters/Ipsos poll)

80% of Republicans would be less likely to vote for a member of Congress who supports giving legal status to undocumented aliens while 72% of all Americans favor enforcement measures to address illegal immigration instead of legal status for illegals. (April 15, 2013, Pulse Opinion Research) 2011 67% Say States Should Be Able To Enforce Immigration Laws If Feds Are Not. Just 22% disagree. (3 to 1 margin) Eighty-seven percent (87%) of Republicans and 74% of voters not affiliated with either major party say states should have the right to enforce immigration laws if they believe the federal government is not. Democrats are almost evenly divided on the question.

(February 18, 2011 Rasmussen Reports) 76.7 percent of residents polled in the Lake and Porter County areas of Indiana strongly favor state legislation which would require law enforcement officers to verify citizenship of possible immigrants in certain situations. 83.9 percent of residents strongly agreed with the portion of the

bill which would require a process established to suspend or revoke business licenses of employers who knowingly employ illegal immigrants. (February 13, 2011 Valparaiso-based JEM Research Inc.) 2010 70% of Americans say it’s important to locate and deport those residing in the U.S. illegally, 53% say children born to illegal immigrant parents should not be automatic citizens. An incredible 92% of those responding said developing a plan to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. is important, including 74% who said it’s very important. Just 7% said such a plan is not important. (August 20-23, 2010 ZOGBY International Poll) --An EPIC/MRA poll of 600 likely Michigan voters showed that nearly three-fourths favor the Arizona law and two out of every three state residents would support a similar law being approved by Michigan lawmakers, August 2010 --60% in Florida favor Arizona-like immigration law in their state, Rasmussen Reports, August 2010 --Most Americans (58%) oppose granting U.S. citizenship automatically to children born in America to illegal immigrants; Rasmussen Reports, August 2010 --On immigration, 69% of American voters say that reform should move in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration, while only 22% say that reform should primarily move in the direction of integrating illegal immigrants into American society, Quinnipiac University poll (question 43), July 2010 --On immigration, Pennsylvania voters report 72 - 21% that reform should move more in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration rather than integrating illegal immigrants into American society, Quinnipiac University poll (question 29), July 2010 --Arizona Voters (66%) still support immigration law, 59% favor Governor Brewer’s appeal of Judge Bolton’s decision to block implementation of some parts of the law, Rasmussen Reports, July 2010

--68% of U.S. voters now believe the United States should continue to build a fence on the Mexican border; support for the fence is strong across all demographic groups Rasmussen Reports, July 2010 --A solid majority (69%) of voters in Texas would favor an immigration law similar to the one passed in Arizona in their state, Rasmussen Reports, July 2010 --60% of Colorado voters favor an Arizona-like immigration law in their own state, Rasmussen Reports, July 2010 --A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Arizona finds that 64% agree that children born to illegal immigrants in recent history should not automatically become citizens of the United States, Rasmussen Reports, July 2010 --Florida voters (registered) say 68 - 24% that immigration reform should move in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration rather than integrating illegal immigrants into American society, Quinnipiac University poll (question 29), June 2010 --Ohio voters say 72 - 22% that immigration reform should move in the direction of stricter enforcement rather than integrating illegal immigrants into American society, Quinnipiac University poll (question 35), June 2010 --69% of Likely Voters in Texas believe the military should be sent to the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration, Rasmussen Reports, June 2010 --71% of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania support sending U.S. troops to the border with Mexico to help prevent illegal immigration, Rasmussen Reports, June 2010

--70% of U.S. voters favor strict government sanctions on employers who hire illegal immigrants, Rasmussen Reports, June 2010 --61% in a poll of nationwide voters think we should enforce current immigration laws to solve the illegal immigration problems, while only 34% think we should overhaul immigration laws, Fox News Poll/Opinion Dynamics (question 33), May 2010 --67% of U.S. voters say military troops should be sent to the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration, Rasmussen Reports, May 2010 --70% of Massachusetts voters favor a proposal recently rejected by the state legislature that would stop illegal immigrants from receiving public benefits, Rasmussen Reports, May 2010 --A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 87% of adults favor making English the nation's official language, Rasmussen Reports, May 2010 --62% of Florida voters favor a law like Arizona’s that authorizes local police to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant, Rasmussen Reports, May 2010 --Nationally, 60% of voters favor letting local police stop and verify immigration status, Rasmussen Reports, April 2010 67% of U.S. voters say that "illegal immigrants are a significant strain on the U.S. budget." Of voters polled, two-out-of-three (66 percent) said the availability of government money and services draw illegal immigrants to the United States and 68 percent said gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already living in the United States. Of particular importance, 80 percent of voters said the issue of immigration will be somewhat important in determining how they will vote in the next congressional election;

half (50 percent) said it will be very important to them. (Rasmussen Reports, March 3, 2010).

76% of Born-Again Protestants support immigration enforcement that pushes illegal aliens out of the country while only 12% support legalization. 64% of Mainline Protestants and Catholics prefer enforcement while only 24% support legalization or amnesty. 43% of American Jews prefer enforcement while 40% prefer legalization. ZOGBY POLL December 2009 59% of executives (e.g., CEOs, CFOs, etc.), 67% of small business owners, and 58% of union households support enforcement of our immigration laws over granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

This is in stark contract to the push for Amnesty by the US Chamber of Commerce, AFL-CIO, and the Service Employees International Union. ZOGBY Poll February, 2010 52% of Hispanics, 57% of Asian-Americans, and 50% of African-Americans support immigration enforcement options that send illegals back home over the Amnesty legalization option. 56% of Hispanics, 57% of Asian Americans, and 68% of black Americans feel immigration levels are to high. 61, 69, and 70% of these minority groups feel illegal immigration is caused by a lack of enforcement not due to legal immigration limits. ZOGBY Poll February, 2010

2009 Seventy-eight percent (78%) of likely voters were opposed to legalizing the status of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. with only 19% supporting it. 88% of African-Americans were opposed to legalization. Pulse Opinion Research, LLC, September, 2009 71% of Americans want to see the bosses who hire illegal immigrants arrested while 64 percent support police conducting surprise raids on businesses suspected of hiring illegal immigrants (The Raids Obama has stopped) Rasmussen Reports poll, October, 2009.

80 percent of U.S. voters oppose proposals for government-backed health-care plans for illegal immigrants Rasmussen Reports poll, June, 2009.

78 percent of Americans believe that high immigration numbers have had a negative impact on the cost and quality of the nation's health care system and 78% of likely voters were opposed to legalizing the status of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. American Council for Immigration Reform, September, 2009 73% of Americans called for a drop in the number of illegal immigrants CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, October, 2009.

58% of Arizona voters say the policies and activities of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have had a positive impact on the state’s image, [May 2009, Rasmussen Reports] 74% of Americans think the government is not doing enough to keep illegal immigrants from coming into this country,[Washington Post-ABC News poll, April 2009] 66% of likely voters nationwide say it is Very Important for the government to improve its enforcement of the borders and reduce illegal immigration, [April 2009, Rasmussen Reports] 73% of U.S. voters believe that a police officer should automatically check to see if someone is in this country legally when the officer pulls that person over for a traffic violation, [March 2009,

Rasmussen Reports] 67% of voters also say that if law enforcement officers know of places where immigrants gather to find work, they should sometimes conduct surprise raids to identify and deport illegal immigrants, [March 2009, Rasmussen Reports] 68% of Arizona voters have a favorable view of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, [March 2009, Rasmussen Reports] 68% of U.S. voters favor strict government sanctions on employers who hire illegal immigrants, [March 2009, Rasmussen Reports] 62% of New Jersey Residents oppose offering illegal immigrants some type of driver’s licenses. Just 33% favor this proposal, [March 2009, Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll] Only 20% of New Jersey residents favor extending in-state college tuition rates to undocumented immigrants living in the state compared to 37% who say illegal immigrants should pay higher outof-state rates. 39% say that illegal immigrants should not even be allowed to attend New Jersey’s public colleges and universities at all, [March 2009, Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll] 78% of registered Utah voters want to see SB81 implemented. The bill would, among other provisions, require all companies that contract with the state to check the immigration status of their employees and allow local police to enforce immigration law, [January 2009, The Salt Lake Tribune] 2008 74% of U.S. voters continue to believe the federal government is not doing enough to secure the country’s borders, [December 2008, Rasmussen Reports] 63% of voters say gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers in the country, [December 2008, Rasmussen Reports] Only 32% of Obama voters considered his support for illegal immigration amnesty as a factor in their decisions to vote for him. 67% said it was either not a factor at all, or they voted for Obama in spite of his stance on amnesty, [November 2008, Zogby Interactive Survey of Likely Voters] 60% of voters said reducing illegal immigration and cracking down on employers who hire them is important to them, while only 21% supported "legalizing or creating a pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens, [November 2008, Zogby Interactive Survey of Likely Voters] Transatlantic Trends: when asked about what governments should do to address illegal immigration, 83% of respondents supported stronger border controls, 74% supported cracking down on employers, and 68% supported deportation, [November 2008, TNS Opinion]

71.5% of likely voters said they agree (including 47.8% who strongly agree) that local law enforcement officers should enforce federal immigration laws, including 51.5% of Hispanics and 56.2% of self-described "liberals." [October 2008, Judicial Watch/Zogby International] 57.1% of likely voters said more law enforcement is needed to address the issue of illegal immigration while only 7.1% said they believe less law enforcement should be used. 34.7% of Hispanics support more law enforcement while 15.5% said less, [October 2008, Judicial Watch/ Zogby International] 69% of voters say controlling the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers, while just 21% think legalization is more important, [August 2008, Rasmussen Reports] 2007 Ohio voters prefer strict enforcement over integration of illegal immigrants 71 - 20 % and 22% say they would vote against a candidate who disagrees with them only on the immigration issue, [December 2007, Quinnipiac University poll] 77% of American voters say companies should be allowed to require employees to speak English while on the job, [November 2007, Rasmussen Reports] 77% of American adults are opposed to making drivers licenses available to people who are in the country illegally, [November 2007, Rasmussen Reports] Only 22% of voters support the Dream Act proposal introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and 59% of all voters oppose the Dream Act concept, [October 2007, Rasmussen Reports] 68% of North Carolinians disagree (including 41.6% who strongly disagree) with proposals that would allow undocumented immigrants to stay in this country for several years as long as they have a job, [September 2007, Elon University Poll] 58% of voters nationwide favor cutting off federal funds for “sanctuary cities” that offer protection to illegal immigrants, [August 2007, Rasmussen Reports] 79% of American adults favor a proposal requiring employers to fire workers who falsify identity documents, [August 2007, Rasmussen Reports] Just 22% of American voters currently favor the “comprehensive” immigration reform bill in the U.S. Senate despite a despite a massive White House effort, [June 2007, Rasmussen Reports] 2007 Senate amnesty bill: just 16% of American voters believe illegal immigration will decline if the bill is passed. If voters had a chance to improve the legislation, 75% would make changes to

increase border security measures and reduce illegal immigration and just 19% would make it easier for illegal immigrants to stay in the country and eventually become citizens, [May 2007, Rasmussen Reports] When presented by itself, 79% of likely voters supported reducing the illegal immigrant population by increasing border enforcement, penalizing employers, and increasing cooperation with local law enforcement, while 15 percent were opposed. No other proposal had near this level of support, [May 2007, Pulse Opinion Research] Which approach do you prefer – enforcing the law and cause illegal immigrants to go home over time or granting legal status and citizenship to those who meet certain requirements? 56% prefer “Enforce the law” while 35% prefer “Grant legal status.” [May 2007, Pulse Opinion Research] 58% of likely voters prefer that the 12 million illegal immigrants in the country go home as opposed to 30% who prefer they be allowed to stay legally, [May 2007, Pulse Opinion Research] 59% of Americans believe the more effective way to deal with the potential treat to national security posed by millions of illegal immigrants living within the United States is to crack down on illegal immigration by toughening the enforcement of existing laws, deporting illegal immigrants and prosecuting the employers who illegally employ workers, [April 2007, UPI/Zogby Poll] 61% of likely American voters oppose providing a path to US citizenship for those illegal immigrants who entered the United States illegally, and who fraudulently obtained green cards and Social Security numbers, when millions are playing by the rules and waiting in their countries to enter the United States legally, [April 2007, McLaughlin & Associates Poll] 2006 A poll of likely voters, using neutral language, found that Americans prefer the House of Representatives’ enforcement-only bill by 2-1 over Senate proposals to legalize illegal immigrants and greatly increase legal immigration, [April 2006, Zogby America] 2005 81% WANT local police to detain illegals: ONLY 35% WANT GUEST WORKER. 81 percent believes local and state police should help federal authorities enforce laws against illegal immigration. Only 14 percent disagreed. 35 percent gave their support, and 56 percent said no to the Bush plan to give illegals a path to citizenship according to a (April, 2005 ZOGBY America Poll) CHECK OUT

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