From AOL News:
Those targeted for deportation represent a small fraction of the estimated 8 million illegal immigrants in the USA. Most illegal immigrants are unknown to U.S. immigration officials. Only those who are caught trying to enter the USA or who otherwise reveal themselves — such as by committing crimes, applying for asylum or seeking government benefits — become targets for deportation.
Despite the rising number of deportations, U.S. agents have struggled to reduce the number of illegal immigrants who have disobeyed orders to leave the country or who have failed to appear at deportation hearings. That number has remained at an estimated 400,000 because immigrants continue to flow into the USA — particularly along the Southwest border — and illegal immigrants continue to defy orders to appear at deportation hearings.
I believe the above assumption of the number of illegal aliens within the United States probably is an erroneous estimate. I've read numbers in the ten to twelve million range, in many different publications. With such a weak grasp of border control, useful deportation procedures become useless, or nearly so.
What interested me in this article was its largely sympathetic view of illegal immigrants. And yet, in a sidebar located on the right-hand side of the page, AOL asks its readers to vote on an issue facing an illegal alien profiled in the article. She is in trouble for playing a small role in a drug-smuggling operation, in addition to her extralegal status. Here are the voting results:
Should Ana Ortega be allowed to return to the United States?
No--82%
Yes--18%
These percentages were derived from 124,913 votes.
Yep, just like Asa Hutchinson informed us, Americans obviously "don't have the will" to deport illegal aliens--or "invaders", as I like to call them.
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