Re: Newscum barfs lies again

On 10/21/2024 2:07 AM, K Wills wrote:
>> Why not hire 60,000 border patrol agents instead?
>> That's where the real threat to the country is.
>       How so? As you will already know, most came to the U.S. legally
> then over stayed their visas.

BULLSHIT LIE!

https://www.fairus.org/issue/how-many-illegal-aliens-are-united-states-2023-update

As of June 2023, FAIR estimates that approximately 16.8 million illegal 
aliens reside in the United States. This is significantly higher than 
our January 2022 illegal alien population estimate of 15.5 million.[1] 
This estimate is also a 2.3 million increase from our end-of-2020 
estimate, meaning the illegal alien population increased 16 percent 
nationwide during just the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency.

FAIR’s most recent comprehensive fiscal cost study showed that illegal 
aliens and their U.S.-born children impose a net annual cost of $150.6 
billion on American taxpayers as of the beginning of 2023. According to 
the previous (2017) cost study, the annual net cost of illegal migration 
was approximately $116 billion.[2] This means that in the short span of 
5 years, the annual cost to American taxpayers has increased by nearly 
$35 billion. When further adjusted for the increased illegal alien 
population growth demonstrated by this report, taxpayers are being set 
up for annual spending to the tune of $163 billion and counting. This 
burden will only continue to grow as a result of the Biden 
administration’s open-borders policies.

WHO IS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN?
An illegal alien is simply any alien who is present in the United States 
without legal status, like a valid visa or lawful permanent residence.

It is important to note that “legal status” is not the same as “lawful 
presence.” For example, recipients of deferred action, deferred enforced 
departure, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), or parole do not have legal 
status. These programs (some of which are authorized by statute, some 
are not) do not give illegal aliens visas or green cards.  They merely 
defer deportation for a period of time.

Nevertheless, these aliens are still described as “lawfully present” or 
as having “lawful presence.”  That is because “lawful presence” is a 
term of art under immigration law designed to clarify that although an 
alien has no legal status, he or she is not accruing unlawful presence 
under Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Section 212(a)(9) for 
purposes of the three and ten-year bars.[3]

Under INA Section 212(a)(9), an alien who has no legal status will start 
to accrue days of unlawful presence. If the alien accrues more than 180 
of unlawful presence and is then deported or otherwise leaves, the alien 
is barred from admission for three years.  If the alien accrues 365 or 
more days (one year) of unlawful presence and is then deported or 
otherwise leaves, s/he is barred from admission for ten years.[4]

However, if an alien is granted a deferral of deportation, such as 
deferred action, the deferral would not be meaningful if, by staying, 
the alien could be barred from re-entry for three to ten years.  To 
avoid this outcome, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service 
(INS), now United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), 
essentially deemed that aliens with such deferrals are “lawfully 
present” so that they do not accrue days of unlawful presence and are 
not subject to the statutory bars.[5]

For this study’s purposes, we use the definition that conforms to U.S. 
immigration law and consider individuals present in the U.S. without 
legal status to be illegal aliens, regardless of any deferments 
applicable to their removal or accrual of unlawful presence. Counting 
individuals in these situations as “legal immigrants” or “lawful 
residents” would be both incorrect and a biased mischaracterization of 
immigration law.