I'm a liberal pagan living in West, Texas. Yes. That West, Texas.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

AMERICA'S BORDERS BY THE NUMBERS


7,000 MILES OF U.S. BORDER WITH MEXICO AND CANADA
416 MILLION PEOPLE CHECKED AT PORTS OF ENTRY, CITIZEN AND NON-CITIZENS
550,000 ILLEGAL ENTRIES THWARTED IN 2005
160,000 APPREHENSIONS OF OTHER-THAN-MEXICAN (OTM"S) ILLEGAL CROSSERS IN 2005
219 PERCENT INCREASE IN OTM APPREHENSIONS FROM 2004
80 PERCENT CHANCE THAT AN OTM WAS RELEASED DUE TO SHORTAGE OF JAIL BEDS
155,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED IN THE INTERERIOR OR BY FUGITIVE UNITS
13.9 MILLION U.S. HOUSEHOLDS HEADED BY AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN 2004
29 PERCENT OF THE 36 MILLION IMMIGRANTS TO THE U. S. ARE HERE ILLEGALLY
460 PEOPLE DIED IN THE DESERT AFTER CROSSING ILLEGALLY, IN FISCAL 2005, A RECORD
4,900 BORDER PATROL AGENTS IN FISCAL 1995
11,200 BORDER PATROL AGENTS TODAY(1,500 MORE BEING HIRED OR TRAINED)
1.2 MILLION APPREHENSIONS OF IMMIGRANTS IN FISCAL YEAR 1995 WHO CROSSED THE SOUTHWEST BORDER ILLEGALLY
1.2 MILLION APPREHENSIONS OF IMMIGRANTS IN 2005 WHO CROSSED THE SAME BORDER ILLEGALY....

IS THAT SOME SCARY SHIT OR WHAT???

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