Monday - June 05, 2006

The Unwelcome Guests

Still think a “guest worker program” is a good idea? Read the story below and think again. Nearly half of illegals in the country right now came here legally with a work visa and ... never left. How’s that for a cold slap in the face?

Here you thought they were crawling over the fence and swimming the river and it turns out they are just walking in with our government’s permission and that same government then conveniently forgets about them.

Yes, that would be the very same government that will hound you or I to the grave over $100 in back taxes. That rotten, no-good, useless government in DC keeps millions of records on legal taxpaying citizens so they can find us in a flash ... yet they seem to have lost six million Mexicans.

Are you angry enough yet to do what needs to be done and vote every one of those fat, overpaid, bloviating politicians in DC out of office?

Millions of Visa Overstays Overlooked
_{June 5, 2006, 7:47 AM EDT}

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Millions of illegal immigrants in the United States never jumped the U.S.-Mexico border where Congress wants to erect impenetrable walls and President Bush is sending National Guard troops to patrol. They never sneaked in at all.

The little-acknowledged reality is that nearly half the estimated 12 million undocumented foreigners in the United States entered on bona fide U.S. visas—and simply never left. Authorities call them “overstays” who have been largely overlooked in the vitriolic debate on immigration.

“The southwestern border gets all the attention, but it’s staggering the number of people who come and overstay their visa,” said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington. “It’s a very large-scale problem.” A study by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center last month indicated that 45 percent of the undocumented migrants in the United States overstayed legal visas.

Confirming those findings or knowing the home country of those who overstay their visas is tricky because U.S. authorities don’t track the problem. Immigration authorities also generally don’t compare entry and exit information to see who should have left the country. “There’s no annual reports published on visa overstays because obviously these people are hiding and don’t want to be found,” Boyd said.

Ana Luisa certainly doesn’t, so she asked that her last name not be used. The Mexico City native lives in Dallas with her husband, 13-year-old son and 5-month-old daughter—who was born in the United States and is an American citizen—and volunteers at a middle school. When she moved to the United States, she made sure to return to Mexico every six months to renew her tourist visa. But the trip soon became a chore and she let her visa lapse a year ago. Now if she returns to Mexico again she likely won’t be able to get another U.S. visa.

“I’m illegal, but I’m someone who is trying to help with my work,” she said in a phone interview. Ana Luisa said she would never have sneaked across the border to get into the United States, and didn’t see the harm in overstaying her visa. In Dallas, she said, her son is able to get a better education than he would in Mexico.

“I wouldn’t risk my life in the river or in the desert like thousands of others do,” she said. Many borrow the social security numbers of legal residents or use falsified documents to build what appear to be legal identities, making it difficult for employers to know when someone is undocumented. Others work informally, as maids, gardeners or in other jobs where employers rarely require paperwork, despite federal law.

- More on the story here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/05/2006 at 07:57 AM   
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