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Shrinking Problem: Illegal Immigration From Mexico

Larry Mr. T234 Wrote: Apr 26, 2012 1:16 PM

So, now is the time to build a big fence and secure the border, when we won't give the Mexicans a "we better go now or never" idea, nor the DEEMO's a fit over our 'mean republican' ideas. Use all the technology available to thwart tunnels, etc. The long term cost will be nothing compared to the illegal drugs the Mexicans deliver without problem as well as the guns coming back over the border by the Drug invaders.

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dhellew3 Wrote: Apr 26, 2012 2:50 PM

There is an even simpler solution... stop the handouts and they will leave on their own.

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Shrinking Problem: Illegal Immigration From Mexico

The illegal immigration problem is going away.

That's the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States.

Pew's demographers have carefully combed through statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican government, and have come up with estimates of the flow of migrants from and back to Mexico. Their work seems to be as close to definitive as possible.

They conclude that from 2005 to 2010 some 1.39 million people came from Mexico to the United States and 1.37 million went from the U.S....

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