Nearly half of Mexican adults would move to the U.S. if they could – and one in five say they would do so illegally, new surveys reveal.

These same surveys suggest that America's problem with illegals will only get worse in the years to come.

Waves of illegals continue to wreak havoc on America's southern border, and this past weekend New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson ordered a state of emergency in four of his state's counties that border Mexico "because of the urgency of the situation and, unfortunately, because of the total inaction and lack of resources from the federal government and Congress."

Arizona followed suit and declared a state of emergency on Monday.

Whether Mexico Gets Better or Not

The surveys of Mexican citizens by the Pew Hispanic Center also found that increased education and an improved standard of living won't dampen the stampede of illegals coming across the border.

The two surveys conducted in Mexico asked: "If at this moment you had the means and opportunity to go to live in the USA, would you go?" Almost half - 46 percent - said yes.

When asked if they would be inclined to work and live in the USA "without authorization," meaning illegally, 21 percent said they would.

Showing that interest in emigrating isn't confined to the poor, more than one-third of Mexican college graduates said they would move to the U.S. if they could, and more than one in eight said they'd be willing to migrate even if they had to enter the country illegally.

"People with college degrees believe they have greater economic opportunities by migration to the U.S. – even illegally – than they would staying at home," Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research group in Washington, told USA Today.

Mexicans wishing to come to the U.S. are "distributed across the whole breadth of Mexican society," he added.

A Difference of Perspective

Six in 10 Hispanics born in the U.S. favor requirements that people show proof of citizenship or legal residency before they can get a driver's license, but only 29 percent of foreign-born Hispanics agree.

An estimated 10 million Mexicans now live in the U.S., more than half of them illegally, according to Suro.

The unfettered movement of illegals across our southern border is costing American taxpayers dearly:

# Americans pay an estimated $8 billion annually for educating the children of illegal aliens.
# The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington has estimated that illegal aliens have cost U.S. workers $133 billion in job loses.
# Food stamps and medical benefits for undocumented immigrants cost Americans some $65 billion annually. Illegals have been running up a tab of $2.5 billion annually for Medicaid alone.
# The American Hospital Association has said the cost of uncompensated care for patients, many of them illegal aliens, amounted to more than $21 billion in a recent year.
# More than 75 percent of the illegal drugs in the U.S. come across our porous borders, according to experts.
# More than one-quarter of the inmates in federal prisons are illegals – costing taxpayers $900 million a year to feed and house them.

"Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it," said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, which favors strict enforcement of immigration laws.

"That's the bottom line."
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/8/17/153408.shtml

Hell,I thought half of Mexico was living here!

Eh? Que dice, chico? De que en carajo hablas?

quote:

Originally posted by patoloco:
Eh? Que dice, chico? De que en carajo hablas?

Now,Gunny,you know I was talking about illegals. Yo soy viejo.

Viejo? O anciano?

Ambos patoloco,ambos!

I just found this and I sit here wondering WTF
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/113246.shtml

Reparations for Deported Latinos?

Responding to a little-known chapter in U.S. history, the Assembly yesterday voted to establish a state fund that could be used to pay reparations to survivors of a massive deportation of Latinos in the 1930s.

By a 41-23 vote, lawmakers approved a bill by Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Garden Grove, that also would create a 16-member commission to make recommendations to the governor and Legislature on how to redress the deportations.

It would take subsequent legislation to appropriate money for the fund, however.

The bill is a response to a Hoover administration policy that attempted to remove illegal immigrants to open up jobs during the Depression.

But most of the 2 million people who were deported to Mexico were U.S. citizens or legal immigrants, bill supporters say. Of the 400,000 Californians deported, some returned and fewer than 5,000 now live in the state.

so that just means we won't have that much to pay out? Perhaps if the dems had waited a few more years that number would be in the hundreds? Wait even longer an all it would cost would be an heartfelt apology?

Just remember, the law counts people living in a state regardless of legal status for determining the number of congressmen and the change to that is far from happening.