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December 01, 2003
LOOK FOR A SURGE IN MEXICAN ILLEGAL MIGRATION IN 2004 While immigration to the United States surged over the past few years despite a slumping U.S. economy, an even greater wave of illegal immigration from Mexico may be looming. The Mexican peso has lost 26 percent of its value since the spring of 2002 meaning that already impoverished Mexicans have even less purchasing power. Moreover, the surge in cheaper imports from China to the U.S. is making it even harder for Mexicans to find work producing exports for the American market. The U.S. buys 90 percent of Mexico’s exports. Frustrated by the lack of economic progress at the midpoint of President Vicente Fox’s six-year term, labor unrest is growing in Mexico, and this could lead to paralyzing strikes that would further cripple the country’s economy. NEWSDAY TAKES UP CASE OF SALVADORAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT Because he has been working with Salvadoran youth gang members, Newsday has highlighted the case of Julio Canas, a former gang member who is detained for deportation to El Salvador for being in the U.S. illegally and for racketeering. His lawyer is fighting deportation by arguing that it is the equivalent of a death sentence for a former MS-13 gang member to be sent back to his home country. GEYER CHALLENGES CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON IMMIGRATION Syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer draws on FAIR’s recent report on the continuing and increasing immigrant settlement since 2000 to debunk conventional wisdom that we need immigration to meet the demands of the workforce. Noting that mass immigration continues despite the economic downturn and high unemployment, she writes that, “What this means, in contradistinction to what immigration advocates insist, is that American taxpayers are footing the bill for industry's desire for cheap labor (at any cost to the nation), for the academic left's ideas about diluting traditional Americanism, and for the average American's desire not to look racist -- or to take any position that seems unpopular.” Geyer concludes that, “In the end, it is not only the libertarians with their wishful thinking, not only big industry with its voracious appetite for cheap labor, not only the far left with its utopian ideas about transforming America, and not even the cynical Hispanic advocacy groups driven by their own bureaucratic ambitions. What happens rests upon what individual, average, concerned Americans will do as their country changes before their eyes -- and ultimately, with their compliance.“ WHILE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS GO WITHOUT, ILLEGAL ALIENS GIVEN FREE HEALTHCARE… Hidden inside the much-celebrated $395 billion Medicare package is a “stocking stuffer” that has gone “largely unnoticed,” says an article in Frontpage.com. “Hidden within the sweeping reforms to Medicare is a provision that would provide $1 billion in federal funds for illegal immigrant health care.” The provision, sponsored by Arizona Senator John Kyl, will provide $1 billion over four years in payments to border area hospitals, including $150 million to Arizona facilities struggling under the strain of caring for illegal aliens. "It’s ironic that this amendment was introduced by Kyl," comented FAIR’s David Ray. "They’ve enacted laws in Arizona that virtually roll out the welcome wagon to illegal aliens. They have sanctuary policies barring cooperation between local police and immigration agents and they accept the Matricula card for services intended for legal residents. Arizona is finally realizing that if you build it, they will come, but now they’re looking to the rest of us to bail them out on the costs." |