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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 387
Illegal Aliens
Estimates of the total number of illegal aliens in the US range as high as 20 million.
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Nobody knows how fast the population of illegals is rising but the Census Bureau estimates that
its growing by approximately 500,000 a year. An Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
report estimates that the number of illegal immigrants is much higher; 700,000 a year during
much of the 1990s, “817,000 by 1998 and nearly 1 million by 1999.” Even still higher estimates
have been produced by independent INS and Border Patrol sources. Based on these sources Jon
Dougherty believes the number exceeds 2.5 million illegals per year.
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While the majority of the illegals come for work, a fearfully high number raise concerns
for national security. The former INS issued a report in 2003 which estimated that 78,000 illegal
aliens were in the US “from countries of ‘special concern’ due to the war on terrorism
—‘visitors’ who are now required by the agency to register.”
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In the book Illegals, Jon
Dougherty, the author, estimated that the number of illegals in the US from the Middle East to be
150,000, nearly twice the INS figure. Dougherty’s estimate is based on statistics from the Center
for Immigration studies, the INS, and the US. Census Bureau.
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According to the Census
Bureau, there are illegals from many other areas of the world that should raise potential concern;
these include: an estimated 115,000 illegals from China and 55,000 from Korea.
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One would expect that since September 11, 2001 that the US government would be more
concerned about illegal aliens but until recently this hasn't been the case. The Washington Times
wrote the following concerning a report issued by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS):
“Immigration enforcement efforts actually have become more lax since the September 11 attacks
and have had ‘no meaningful impact’ on the growing number of immigrants now in the United
States.”
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In the Spring of 2004 a startling announcement was made by some high-ranking officials
from Homeland Security at a public meeting in Texas attended by some 400 people. Incredibly
they announced that “they had no plans to arrest, deport, or hassle the scores of aliens illegally
living and working in the Houston area” as reported by the Houston Chronicle.
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“In Blaine, Washington, retired deputy chief border Patrol agent Eugene Davis estimated
that ‘there has been no effort to locate 95 percent’ of aliens apprehended in his region over the
past decade and released pending deportation hearings. ‘They have simply been allowed to
disappear in the United States.’”
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“In 2002 the INS admitted there were 300,000 foreigners
who have been ordered out of the country but have disappeared before they could be deported.
By the end of 2004 that number had grown to 400,000.”
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Still more incredible, Time magazine disclosed that a captured Al-Qaeda operative had
revealed “the group’s potential plans to target the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction.” In
order to get the weapons into the US, Al-Qaeda had “considered plans to ‘smuggle nuclear
materials to Mexico, then operatives would carry material into the U.S.’”
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This shows illegal
immigration to be one of the greatest threats to ever face the US or possibly any other nation ever
in the history of the world. Our leaders tell us that another mass attack is inevitable. One must
consider that since little has been done to thwart such an attack which they say is inevitable,
maybe they intend to let it happen?
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