US Mexican Border Fence

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US Mexican Border Fence
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The Facts

• Approximately 12 Million or more illegal aliens
  currently reside in the United States
• 60 cross the border without permission, the
  other 40 stay longer than their visa permits
• 1 in 8 people residing in the United States are
  foreign in comparison to 1 in 20 in 1970

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Why limit illegal immigration?

• Cost US government billions of dollars
• Crime
• Take US jobs
• Drug trafficking

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Why limit illegal Immigration?

• Illegal Immigration costs the federal
  government more than 10 billion a year
• government services
• Medicaid
• medical treatment for the
• uninsured
• food assistance programs
• federal prison and court
• systems,
• federal aid to schools.

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Crime caused by Illegal Immigration

• 7 million use stolen Social Security Numbers
• 50 of Crime committed in neighborhoods adjacent
  to Mexico is committed by illegal immigrants

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Homeland Security

• 450 OTMs have been apprehended crossing the
  border from
• Afghanistan
• Angola
• Jordan
• Qatar
• Pakistan
• Yemen
• National Security measures must be taken by the
  Federal Government to protect American borders
  from foreign terrorists.

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Building a Fence

• Proven success along the San Diego border
• Building a fence will not halt illegal
  immigration, however any action to slow the
  process is advantageous to the United States and
  its Citizens.