ten years, Mexico's unemployment rate will increase 30 percent, as .
these children become young adults, in search of work. There were in.
1990 an estimated four million illegal aliens in the United States, .
and about 55 percent of them were from Mexico.
These people look to the United States. Human population has .
always moved, like waves, to fresh lands. But for the first time in .
human history, there are no fresh lands, no new continents. We will .
have to think and decide with great care what our policy should be .
toward immigration. At this point in history, American immigration .
policies are in a mess. Our borders are totally out of control. Our .
border patrol arrests 3000 illegal immigrants per day, or 1.2 million .
per year, and Two illegal immigrants get in for every one caught. And .
those caught just try again!.
More than 1 million people are entering the U.S. legally every .
year. From 1983 through 1992, 8.7 million of these newcomers .
arrived-the highest number in any 10-year period since 1910. A record .
1.8 million were granted permanent residence in 1991. Because present .
law stresses family unification, these arrivals can bring over their .
spouses, sons and daughters: some 3.5 million are now in line to come .
in. Once here, they can bring in their direct relatives. As a result, .
there exists no visible limit to the number of legal entries. .
Until a few years ago, immigrants seeking asylum were rare. In .
1975, a total of 200 applications were received in the U.S. Suddenly, .
asylum is the plea of choice in the U.S., and around the world, often .
as a cover for economic migration. U.S. applications were up to .
103,000 last year, and the backlog tops 300,000 cases. Under the .
present asylum rules, practically anyone who declares that he or she .
is fleeing political oppression has a good chance to enter the U.S. .
Chinese are almost always admitted, for example, if they claim that .
China's birth-control policies have limited the number of children .
