Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:29:06 -0500
From: "J.B. Tunginchik" <theophile@I-55.COM>
Reply-To: BB for Hummingbirds and Gardening for them in the Southeast
<HUMNET-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
To: HUMNET-L@listserv.lsu.edu
Subject: [HUMNET-L] Region V - Immigration Issues

Dear Dr. Remsen,

We at INS would never spam a listserv but we wish to bring to your
attention a problem of pressing concern. Perhaps you could help us spread
the word. Use your own discretion.

Respectfully and patriotically,
J. B. Tunginchik
Region V Superviser

For Immediate Circulation:

Immigration & Naturalization has, once again, begun its autumnal round-up
of suspected illegal immigrants. There's an annual shift in immigrant
patterns of activities related to the cessation of daylight savings time
(most of them being farm workers). To date, in 2001, the INS Federales have
reported detainees from 65 counties/parishes in 11 of 37 states east of
Colorado. In the entire fall and winter of 2000, detainees were reported
from 203 counties/parishes in 28 of 37 states east of Colorado.

INS has every reason to believe that geographic patterns of immigrant
activities for the 2001-2002 season will mirror those of last year. Thus
illegal
immigrants, on the move, will likely be detected in more than twice as
many states and three times as many counties than they have been detained
in
as of this writing. Obviously, it appears that most of the captures occur
after Daylight Savings Time ends for the year. That's why today's urgency.

The biggest headache for INS is figuring out where these illegals are
coming from, at what points they are entering the country and what routes
they take (probably AmTrak) to their ultimate destinations, most heavily
concentrated in the Gulf Region. As these are migrant workers, most finish
their summer chores in the Pacific Northwest, including parts of Canada and
Alaska and are known to leave the region enmasse, for Mexico, a good two
months prior to when most of the autumn illegals show up in the Gulf South.

So, the major interdiction question, in order to stem the tide of illegal
immigration, is whether or not that portion of spring-summer alien Pacific Northwesterners which ends up in the Gulf South arrives via Canada, the Plains States, the
Missouri & Mississippi Valley, the Ohio River Valley, the Atlantic Seaboard
or even Mexico.

In INS Region I, including many states north and west of this writer's
location, year to date, no detainees have been captured. In all of last
year, aliens were detained in only 4 of 317 counties. This region includes
the following states with numbers of counties reporting detainees, first in
2001 ytd, then all of 2000: North Dakota (0/53) (1/53); South Dakota
(0/66) (0/66); Nebraska (0/93) (1/93) ; Kansas (0/105) (0/105) ; Oklahoma
(0/77) (2/77).

In INS Region II, including many states north and central to this writer's
location, year to date, detainees have already been captured in 3 of 375
counties. Still, in all of last year, aliens were detained in but 7 of 375
counties. This region includes the following states with numbers of
counties reporting detainees, first in 2001 ytd, then all of 2000:
Minnesota (0/87) (0/87) ; Iowa (0/99) (1/99) ; Missouri (2/114) (2/15) ;
Arkansas (1/75) (4/75).

In INS Region III, including many states north and east to this writer's
location, year to date, detainees have already been captured in 1 of 564
counties. In all of last year, aliens were detained in 23 of 564 counties.
This region includes the following states with numbers of counties
reporting detainees, first in 2001 ytd, then all of 2000: Wisconsin (0/72)
(4/72) ; Michigan (1/83) (2/83) ; Illinois Counties (0/102) (1/102);
Indiana (0/92) (0/92); Kentucky (0/120) (4/120) ; Tennessee (0/95)
(12/95).

Arguably, Tennessees has problems moreso resembling its neighboring
southern tier of states.

In INS Region IV, including many states near the Atlantic Seaboard, year to
date, detainees have already been captured in 2 of 881 counties. In all of
last year, aliens were detained in 34 of 881 counties. This region includes
the following states with numbers of counties reporting detainees, first in
2001 ytd, then all of 2000: Maine (0/16) (0/16); New Hampshire (0/10)
(0/10) ; Vermont (0/14) (0/14) ; Massachusetts (0/8) (1/8) ;
Connecticut Counties (1/8) (3/8) ; Rhode Island (0/5) (0/5) ;New York
(0/58) 1/58) ; New Jersey (1/21) (5/21) ; Pennsylvania (0/67) (3/67) ;
Delaware (0/3) (2/3) ;Ohio (0/88) (1/88) ; Maryland (0/24) (4/24) ;
Virginia (0/95)
(7/95; West Virginia (0/55) (0/55).

In INS Region V, including many states near the Gulf South, year to date,
detainees have already been captured in 59 of 839 counties. In all of last
year, aliens were detained in 175 of 839 counties. This region includes the
following states with numbers of counties reporting detainees, first in
2001 ytd, then all of 2000: Texas (23/254) (62/254) ; Louisiana Parishes
(16/64) (26/64) ; Mississippi (2/82) (14/82); AlabamaCounties (1/67)
(23/67); Georgia (10/159) (15/159) ; Florida (4/67) (14/67) ; South
Carolina (3/46) (7/46) ; North Carolina (0/100) (14/100) .

Congress is presently embroiled in a furious funding debate as one INS
Region competes with the next, The region most aggrieved of all, of course,
is Region V, the Gulf South, as they obviously have the greater problem.
Some INS agents want funding concentrated in certain subsections of Texas
and especially Louisiana (which is disproportionately taking on most of the
country's burden it seems as regards illegal aliens). Some claim that most
of the
same 175 counties in Region V will be victimized again this year, along
with neighboring counties, unless something is done to stop the problem.
This basically involves finding the
aliens where they are now, before they arrive to tax the resources of
county, rural and municipal governments. It is thought that the problem is
exacerbated by some residents of these states actually providing safe haven
for these immigrants!

Some agents further press the claim that these aliens are already in these
175 counties, hiding out, undetected. Certain agents take umbrage with this
notion, insulting as it is to their ability to track these immigrants down.

Others claim that these immigrants are spread out in regions north of here,
slowly making their way south, but, as one can see from the data, year to
date, detainees have been reported in ONLY 10 of 2,137 counties represented
in ALL four regions north of the Gulf South. Still, other agents maintain
they are skulkers and devious. In all of last year, only 68 of these 2,137
counties hosted illegals while poor Louisiana, alone, provided haven for
over 500 detainees in 26 of their 64 parishes (counties).

A few officials in Louisiana and Texas suspect neither northern origins nor
local hideouts are sheltering the inevitable influx of illegals but suspect, instead, that
they'll be coming into their states, increasing in numbers as Christmas
approaches, having left their compadres behind in Mexico. [Picture the
"scattershot" pattern which emerges across parts of the various regions or
the lack thereof.] It's an immigrant strategy that has been severely called
into question due to the economics involved, especially once taking into
account the long journey many of them made just two or three months earlier
from as far away as Canada and Alaska to Mexico. One counter to that is how
bad things are in Mexico, especially for young jobless males and especially
females with little credit history or no business savvy. (They are
disproportionately represented in the stateside illegal immigrant
population).

Congress is about ready to throw up its arms. I'm sure your representatives
want to hear what you have to say. WHERE do YOU think these aliens are
right NOW? And where should agents put their traps and dragnets in order to
catch them?

[Anyone seeking more information is STRONGLY encouraged to visit
Immigration & Notyournation Agent S. J. Peterson's site at
http://www.geocities.com/trochilids/ where much of the underlying data is
available --- true patriot, with the incredible amount of work he does, he
likely never sleeps.]