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•The San Ysidro border in Southern California, just across from Tijuana, Mexico is the busiest international port of entry in the world. An average of 5,000 vehicles pass through San Ysidro every hour. There was a time when checkpoints like San Ysidro were the entrance of choice for illegal immigrants into the U.S. People used to just sprint across at will, but the laws changed in 1994.
•Over the past ten years, the Federal Government has pumped more than 20 billion dollars into security at the four major border checkpoints: San Diego, Nogales, El Paso, and McAllen. But the number of illegal Mexican immigrants coming into the U.S. has actually climbed. They’re just not using the same door to get in.
•An estimated 2 out of 3 people who try to cross the U.S.-Mexico border never make it. More than 2,000 immigrants have died in the wilderness since 1994.
•In 2002, hospitals in Arizona provided more than $40 million in care to illegal immigrants and didn’t get reimbursed a penny from insurance companies or Medicaid. Jim Dickinson, Director of Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, Arizona, says they’ve seen almost a 500% increase in care they’ve had to render for immigrants that are coming from Mexico to the U.S.
•Remittances from the U.S. are the second largest contributor to the Mexican economy – second only to oil. ($14.5 billion a year)
No matter how we come down on the issue of illegal immigration, it’s unlikely to disappear anytime soon. The truth is, we could build a fence from sea to shining sea, and still people would find a way into the promised land… as immigrants always have.
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