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MEXICANS IN THE U.S.LEGAL ILLEGAL AND

OTHERLETS SEE WHAT YOUVE LEARNED

THIS SEMESTERROUND 2 OFWHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUTMEXICO?

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THESE ARE STATS FROM2008:

THERE ARE AROUND 11MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.IN THE US

, %IN 2005 57 OF THE,ILLEGALS WERE FROM MEXICO

%AND 24 FROM OTHER LATIN.AMERICAN COUNTRIES

,IN MANY PARTS OF THE US ALL ILLEGALIMMIGRANTS WHO SPEAK SPANISH ARE

.ASSUMED TO BE MEXICAN

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PROFESSIONS [AS REPORTEDBY NPR AND USA TODAY]

- %3 4 WORK INAGRICULTURE

- %21 33 WORKIN SERVICES

- %16 19 WORK INCONSTRUCTION AND RELATED

ACTIVITIES

- % ,15 17 WORK IN PRODUCTION

INSTALLATION AND REPAIR

%12 IN SALES

%10 IN MANAGEMENT

%8 IN

TRANSPORTATION

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IN 2006

, ,6 570 000 ILLEGAL RESIDENTS WERE FROM MEXICO

.ABOUT MILLION CROSS THE BORDER EVERY YEAR

,MANY ARE TEMPORARY AND EVENTUALLY.RETURN TO MEXICO AND THEIR FAMILIES

THE DIFFICULTIES AND EXPENSES INVOLVED INCROSSING THE BORDER PROMPTS MANY TO STAY.LONGER THAN ANTICIPATED

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COYOTES

.PROFESSIONAL SMUGGLES OF INDIVIDUALS ACROSS THE BORDER

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Coyote abuses

As providers of illegalservices to desperate,clients they are basically

.mercenaries

-Clients who pre pay maybe abandoned in the

desert without water or.protection

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er coyo es pac as manybodies as they can into trucks,with no concern for those stuckinside. Death by asphyxiation

is not uncommon.

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Those who help

Mindful of thedeaths in the,desert there are

humanitarians on

the US side whoprovide waterstations for thosecrossing the

,desert reasoningthat no humanbeing deserves to

die in such a.horrible way

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Their next-door-neighbor mayhave a different approach

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Governmental efforts

,In the 1930s Congress ennactedthe Mexican. ,Repatriation act Around 500 000 Mexicans and

Mexican Americans were deported or coerced into.emigrating The majority of those removed were.US citizens

, In 1954 Operation Weback deported a sizeable,number of illegal immigrants along with their leal

.US born children

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Economic impact

An MIT study shows that illegalimmigraton has a substantial effect

on reducing the economid status of USpoor while benefiting middle class

.and wealthier people

Illegal workers areestimated to pay around $7

billion per year into Social.Security

An American BarAssociation report

estimates that illegalimmigrants contribute more

in taxes than they cost in

.social services

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Deportation

, , .1 159 802 apprehensions in 2004

% /Fewer than 4 prosecuted because it costs $90 day to

.incarcerate

Most sign a form that they are voluntarily,returning to Mexico and are taken by bus to

.the border

In the summer of 2004 an experimental ,program of deep repatriation was run with

,151charter flights costing $50 000 eachtaking those apprehended into Central and

.Southern Mexico

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Crime

There are statistics proving that illegal immigration raises crime, .rates and others proving that they don t You have to be VERY careful

.when considering the source of these statistics If there are no,reliable footnotes or bibliographies someone may have made the

.information up

Reliable sources state that violent crimes on the border,related to smuggling have risen gangs from El Salvador

have set up bases in Mexico and have launched attacks on.the Border Patrol

,However large groups of immigrants concentrated in urban.areas have not affected the crime rates

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Economic concerns

They re taking our!jobs

/ They do jobs that we don t want won t!do

, True if what you re

looking for is,unskilled low

.paying labor

:Those hurt the

high school, -dropouts the ex,cons the

mentally.challenged

The latter has no

;choice the first 2.did

.True The average salary for an

. / .illegal worker is $4 15 hour. .Minimum wage is $7 25

An illegal worker may or may not pay/income taxes have taxes deducted from

.salary He or she will certainly pay.sales tax on anything purchased

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Solutions?

Guest workers? Amnesty? [Historical perspective? how many of you are]Oneida?

What to do with the kids born here of illegal parents?

: ,The German example prior to 1975 children born inGermany only were legal citizens if born to a German.father

-Since 2000 all children born in Germany to non Germanparents are citizens if at least one parent is a legalresident and has resided in the country for at least 8

.years

Whil d th

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While you ponder thosequestions, lets see what

youve learned this semester!

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