A few weeks ago, President Bush announced his plan of “de facto” amnesty for illegal immigrants. As a legal immigrant, I was not happy with the plan and wrote about it in a recent NEXT article. In that article, I predicted a sudden surge in attempted illegal border crossings.
Unfortunately, it looks like I was right.
As this article describes, not only has the number of attempted crossings increased, but many of those illegal immigrants are claiming they did it because of the president’s program.
Currently, border officials are required to ask all border crossers if they entered the US illegally because of the president’s “de facto” amnesty plan. At one Texas crossing point, an astounding 90% of all illegal aliens caught at the border claimed they came because of amnesty!
90%!! That represents a HUGE threat to our country, not to even mention the drain on social services, the slapping in the face of millions of legal immigrants and military and border personnel, and the flagrant ignoring of the rule of law.
It doesn’t matter if this policy hasn’t been enacted yet or if it technically isn’t amnesty. What matters is that Mexicans think it's going to be enacted and that it is amnesty. As long as they continue to believe that, they will continue trying to cross the border.
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