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8 Million Illegal Aliens Swarm U.S. Phil Brennan, NewsMax.comAt a time when the U.S. faces an internal terrorist threat posed partly by illegal aliens, a shocking new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that there are as many as 8 million illegal aliens - or more - in the U.S. Incredibly, the number of illegal aliens living in the U.S skyrocketed by about 400,000 to 500,000 a year in 10 years, jumping from the 3.5 million estimated to have been here in 1990 to 8 million last year. The new figure is at least a million more than previously thought, the Washington Times reported Thursday. Steven Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), said the new census numbers marked "the first time anyone in the government has said it is that big." Given that the 1990 estimate of illegal aliens was 3.5 million, Camarota said, "this number shows an inability to control the border." Observers say this shocking revelation probably sounds the death knell for proposed amnesty programs and, moreover, will increase pressure on the administration to tighten control of the nation's borders to prevent illegal aliens from crossing into the U.S. and act to prevent those who have entered legally from overstaying their visas. As the Washington Post reported Thursday (using P.C. euphemisms), before Sept. 11 "support had been building for an amnesty program for undocumented workers, but that is now seen as unlikely. Not only is there less political support for regularizing undocumented workers, there is also less employer demand because the nation's economy is deteriorating." According to Camarota, the Census Bureau's estimates clearly demonstrate that amnesties failed to solve illegal immigration. A report issued by CIS shows that although 2.7 million of the estimated 5 million illegal aliens living in the country in 1986 were given amnesty (legal permanent residence), the newest estimates indicate that they have been entirely replaced by new illegal aliens and that by last year the illegal population was 3 million larger than before the last amnesty. "These new estimates have enormous implications for the security of our nation," said Camarota. "If a Mexican day laborer can sneak across the border, so can an al-Qaeda terrorist. While the vast majority of illegals are not terrorists, the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are able to settle in the United States illegally each year indicates that terrorists who wish to do so face few obstacles. We can't protect ourselves from terrorism without dealing with illegal immigration, and selective enforcement would be both immoral and ineffective." Camarota's study noted that because the terrorist threat "comes almost exclusively from foreign-born individuals, immigration enforcement must be a central part of efforts to reduce the likelihood of future attacks. "In fact," according to INS commissioner James Ziglar, "at least three of the terrorists who carried out the attacks of September 11 were illegal aliens, and the INS has no information at all on several others. In addition to concerns over terrorism, the huge number of illegal aliens living in the country also has significant implications for public services as well as for the job prospects of low-wage Americans in the current economic downturn."
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