While U.S. Border Patrol agents have estimated that annual illegal immigration from Mexico into the U.S. averaged 800,000 people in years prior to 2003, many including reporters from Time magazine and their sources confirmed that as many as 3 million illegal aliens crossed the southern border in the year prior to the summer of 2004. With this comes a wave of crime, as it is well documented that 30% of those incarcerated in the U.S. are illegal aliens, who are for now 3-7% of the population. Hundreds of thousands of innocent social security number owners are defrauded by illegal immigrants who steal their identities, and are threatened by the U.S. government for back-taxes illegals don't pay and by banks when illegals default on fraudulent loans. All credible sources who investigate the cost of illegal immigration stipulate California spends about $9 billion dollars a year above the tax revenue they collect for services for illegal aliens (see http://www.fairus.org), and the U.S. federal government spends at least $10 billion a year, which is estimated to climb to at least $30 billion a year if illegal aliens receive amnesty or qualify for full federal benefits. Furthermore, about $17 billion dollars a year leaves the private American economy for Mexico alone, money sent from illegal Mexican nationals who usually wire funds to families in Mexico; the figure is estimated to be $56 billion overall for money sent abroad from all illegal immigrants combined. Recent epidemics of hepatitis A, leprosy, and other diseases have been determined to originate from invaders from the south. Another report, based on an analysis of the latest Census Bureau data, shows that the number of adult immigrants holding a job increased by over two million between 2000 and 2004, while the number of adult natives holding a job decreased by nearly half a million. What’s more, job losses among native-born Americans tended to be highest in areas with the largest immigrant influx. Victor Borgas, a Harvard professor, has stated, "Americans lose $133 billion in wages annually to illegal aliens taking US citizens' jobs." He calculates that all immigration, by increasing the labor supply from 1980 to 2000, "reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700, or roughly 4%." Borgas says African Americans and native-born Hispanics pay the steepest price because they are more often in direct competition with immigrants for jobs.

The visible effects of illegal immigration are obvious in places like southern California. Roads, schools, hospitals, and jails are far too overcrowded. Many classrooms now have over 50 students to a class. Too many state and county hospitals are being shut down from loss of revenue due to uninsured patients, blamed mostly on illegal aliens. California receives very little funding from the federal government for housing illegal alien prisoners, and will soon lose all funding with proposed budget cuts, infuriating state officials who call immigration a "federal issue".

The U.S.-Mexican border offers plenty of human traffic in broad day light, as the current problem proves to be one not of bad vigilance or alien identification but lack of Border Patrol personnel who can detain illegals or use other retardants. Many Border Patrol agents are killed by illegal aliens toting guns, a fact that assures the President's violation of Article IV, Section IV of the Constitution in refusing to stop invasion is a refusal to stop an armed invasion amongst other things. A myriad of reports from federal intelligence confirms that the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda is actively recruiting Mexicans and Central Americans to commit terrorist attacks in the United States. Many Mexican murderers and cop-killers, who number by the thousands, have fled back to Mexico to escape prosecution in the U.S. and extradition by the corrupt Mexican government, which refuses to honor its extradition treaty with the U.S.

Americans can probably expect no action on the part of the federal or state governments to even attempt to solve the problem. President Bush, who refers to illegal immigration as "an issue you're concerned about" when interviewed by Fox News, frequently offers slow-motion amnesty proposals to illegal aliens, which, along with driver's licenses and other benefits offered by Gray Davis and other former and current state governors, results in an immediate "spike" in the number of aliens trying to cross the border illegally. The lie of NAFTA is that more jobs sent to Mexico would result in more jobs and higher wages there, when in fact, as the President admits, the illegals are motivated by their inferior wages to come to the U.S., yet NAFTA is not stopping many companies from leaving Mexico for even cheaper wages in China. The President insists on hammering out the tired argument that illegals take jobs that Americans don't want, when in fact the teenage unemployment rate in the southwest is astronomically high and 10 million adult legal Americans, mostly blue collar workers, are unemployed. More evidence will verify that illegal immigrant labor inhibits technologic innovation, as companies lose the incentive to buy cybernauts for automation in factories, and farmers refuse to purchase high-tech tractors and farm equipment that could greatly expedite farming. Employers instead choose the quick and dirty solution that result in less long-term income but higher short-term income, and illegals conform to tedious and often dangerous labor that result in more medical care, workers' compensation, and social services that we all pay for.

The California legislature frequently proposes allowing permanent "family reunions" for illegals with their families abroad in California. California law enforcement is no longer allowed to inquire anyone of residential status or assist in the deportation of illegal aliens; the Los Angeles Police Department even refuses to arrest illegal alien gang members with criminal records for the purpose of deportation. It is a known fact that a 10-foot high brick wall can be built along the entire U.S. Mexican border for about $1.7 billion, a fraction of the annual cost of the Border Patrol, a prospect that "scares" politicians knowing that would knock the most precious commodity of special-interest support down to a trickle. To put it concisely, "the Democrats want the vote and the Republicans want the cheap labor".