Quoting a Time magazine investigation "It is fair to estimate…that the number of illegal aliens flooding into the US this year will total 3 million - enough to fill 22,000 Boeing 737-700 aircraft, or 60 flights every day for a year"

"In 2006, the US/Mexico Border Counties Coalition…[found that] If those 24 counties were the 51st state, that state would be number one in federal crimes, due to drug and illegal immigration arrests, number two in tuberculosis, number three in the incidence of hepatitis and concentration of Hispanics. Remove prosperous San Diego County, and that 51st state would be number two in unemployment and 51 in per capita income and in the percentage of its population that has finished high school"

In 2006, we have as many illegal aliens inside our borders, 12 to 20 million, as all the Germans and Italians, out two largest immigrant groups, who ever came in two centuries.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 22 percent of all births in California are born to illegal aliens.

Congressman JD Hayworth notes in Whatever it Takes, that "at a minimum, almost 4,500 people cross into Arizona illegally each day without getting caught…"

As part of "Operation Gatekeeper" a 14 mile border fence was erected in San Diego in 1994. Congressman Duncan Hunter, whose district encompasses that fence, has said of it: 'brought down the border murders from an average of 10 every year to zero. It brought down the number of drug trucks from 300 a month to zero. It brought down smuggling of narcotics and people to almost zero"