Howler of the Night at AP: 'Illegal Immigration Has Dramatically Dropped' In Past Decade
A write-up with a current time stamp of Tuesday afternoon on how shocked (shocked, I tell you) legal Mexican immigrants and Mexican illegal aliens in the U.S. are that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) just won a plurality of the popular vote in "their homeland" by the the Associated Press's Julie Watson posited as a fact a statement so obviously false that you have to wonder if she has editors at all.
After finding an 18 year-old (as if a teenager would know) to claim that "I think most immigrants kind of fled Mexico because of the PRI" (it couldn't have had anything to do with better jobs with no responsibilities of citizenship in the U.S. -- no way), Watson presented the following statement as a cold, hard fact:
Illegal immigration has dramatically dropped since they left because of the crackdown at the U.S. border after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the slowing of the U.S. economy.
What rubbish.
There is a mountain of evidence out that Ms. Watson's claim is untrue. Here's just one: Procon.org's illegal immigrant and U.S. population chart covering 1969 to 2010 tells us that the population of "undocumented immigrants" in 2001 according to an annual report issued by the Pew Research Center was 7.8 million. But 2005, it increased to 11.5 million. That year, Bear Stearns, which did not speculate on previous numbers, estimated that the number was really 20 million. You don't get from 7.8 million to a number over 47% larger in four years with procreation, Julie.
And if anyone is aware of a "crackdown" at the U.S. border, please let me know. I "somehow" missed it.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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illegal immigration dropping
Submitted by Stan T on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 12:55am.
Sure it's dropping, because the left no longer calls illegal immigrants by the term illegal....since there's no such thing in their definition, how could they count them? Though I do object to their new terminology "undocumented", because they do have documents, forged documents....
Exactly, Stan. If no one can be termed "illegal", there aren't
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 1:04am.
any more illegals. The LSM themselves have contributed to the drop in illegals, by refusing to acknowledge that there are illegals.
some are even unforged
Submitted by mom_rox on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 1:15am.
Many illegal immigrants even have official (unforged) documents - those just happen to be from their home country.
it HAS to drop, eventually
Submitted by superllama on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 3:01am.
it really does have to drop off eventually. it's simple math....once more of them are here than there, how many more can leave mexico? this is their dream scenario, i think...to force their useless people into the usa, so they don't have to take care of them. the democrats want them as voters, so we keep taking them in. at some point, the opposite will occur, with mexico actively trying to stop people from leaving, as the russians used to, because they'll need people to work and provide tax funds for their government, join their military, etc.
then, guess what, we'll be the bad guys again, except this time it won't be for trying to stop them from crossing the rio grande, but because we will be "luring away mexico's most precious resource, the patriotic, hardworking mexican, by telling them lies and trying to subvert their obvious hard work ethics by offering them welfare for free, to enslave them in our imperialist society."
this might take a decade or so to evolve, but remember, you heard it here first, straight from the llama's mouth.