Visa violators represent nearly half of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. But they have been largely ignored amid a national clamor to secure the border, fueled in part by Arizona's tough new immigration law, the killing of a southern Arizona rancher and worries that cartel violence in Mexico could spill into this country, analysts and experts say.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 40 to 50 percent of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants entered the country legally. As of May 2006, the most current data available, 4 million to 5.5 million people had entered the U.S. legally and then remained after their visas had expired. An additional 250,000 to 500,000 people entered legally with temporary border-crossing cards and then stayed.
This reminds me of our "War on Poverty" and "War on Drugs" campaigns. Throw billions and billions and BILLIONS of dollars at something over a decades-long period and not even make a fucking DENT in the problem. It is crystal clear the the US Government is the closest thing to incomptency that could ever be developed. Honestly, they couldn't be more inefficient if they TRIED. To catch 1400 (out of 5.5 MILLION, or .025%!!) of current illegals in the country, we spent $68.3 MILLION dollars. That's $48,785 PER illegal. That's just over FIVE illegals a year for each of the 272 investigators assigned to the unit. At that rate we'd need to employ 1,000,000 agents and spend $249,999,999,999.00.In 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement created a special unit to track down visa violators. Funding grew from $6.7 million the first year to $68.3 million in fiscal year 2009, according to testimony in March by Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for ICE John Morton to the House Homeland Security Committee. Investigators analyze records of hundreds of thousands of potential violators based on data from various government databases that keep track of students, tourists and other people who enter the U.S. On average, the 272 investigators assigned to the unit arrest 1,400 visa violators a year, Morton said. ICE officials said the number of overstayers arrested each year has steadily risen, though they could not provide details.
War on Poverty - $10 trillion dollars and counting - Epic Fail
War on Drugs - $2 trillion dollars and counting - Epic Fail
War on Illegal Immigration $billions and billions and counting - Epic Fail
War on Terrorism - $billions and billions and counting - Epic Fail
It's been a banner 50+ years for this country. At this point I'd say we (as a country) peaked in 1945 and have been on a slippery slope to oblivion since.
We need a revolution.
