"I have never been prouder to be an American." - San Diego citizen, April 2003, Re: Liberation of Iraq

15 June 2003 - San Diego, CA -  - New shorter URL: http://borderreport.cjb.net

U.S. Border Report's research studies: Immigration | Smuggling. Mad Cow scare in Canada, heightened terror alert in U.S. Judge lifts restrictions on 400,000 Calif. acres set aside for Whipsnake.(!) 18th victim dies in one of deadliest smuggling attempts in U.S. history.  Murders in Mexico may be linked to organ trafficking in U.S.A. FARM SCENE: California proposal would ban hand weeding. Foreign-born troops add patriotic element to immigration debate. 6 Iraqis backpacking into U.S. disguised as Mexican illegals says C.I.A. Northern Mexico may be host to foreign Islamic terrorist guerrilla groups.  San Diego marches in support of U.S. airmen, sailors, and soldiers in Gulf. Anti-war, anti-Bush protesters trash and burn 9-11 memorials in L.A. Defunct I.N.S. ramps up estimate of illegals in the U.S. to at least 8 million. Study says illegals in U.S. exceed combined populations of 13 U.S. states. All-time record increase of 32.7 million U.S. citizens since 1990. (+13.2%) U.S. border hospitals provide illegals $200 million uncompensated care. Gallup poll says 94% of Americans oppose amnesty for Mexican illegals. Even the White House has illegals fraudulently employed as workers. Dying to work at a job in the U.S that pays 18.24 times more money. The increasing Mexican-American anti-Americanism in America. Ranchers in Arizona use newest military technology to apprehend illegals. 24.1% at San Diego school test positive for Tuberculosis, study concludes.

The Death of the West: How dying native populations and out-of-control immigration imperils our country and western civilization - by Patrick J. Buchanan, hardcover, 320 pages, $21.95, now on the New York Time's bestseller list more than 15 weeks.

What happened to your Mexico border website? The scope of our website has changed dramatically since 11 September 2001. We previously detailed specific foot routes and methods used by foreign nationals (and now terrorists - see below) to enter the United States from Mexico in the remote backcountry of southern California. Every day an average of 1,067 foreign nationals from many countries, often backpacking narcotics or other contraband, enter southern California and Arizona by simply walking across the Mexican border in our remote southwest backcountry. In fiscal year 1999 (latest figure available), 389,427 were caught by the U.S. Border Patrol in only southern CA, and many more were not caught, and even more foreign nationals enter nationwide using this easy method to evade our immigration laws and quotas. For obvious U.S. national security reasons, that portion of the website was discontinued after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. The September 2001 issue of U.S. Border Report remains available in the archives link below.

13 million illegal aliens: A recent study at Northeastern University in Boston by researchers Andrew Sum, Neeta Fogg, and Paul Harrington concludes as many as 13 million illegal aliens may reside in the United States. This is comparable in size to the combined populations of the following 13 states and the District of Columbia (in alphabetical order): Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia (population totals of 12,588,161; see itemized listing). The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service says about 40% of these illegal aliens are in California. The 2000 census counted about 8 million illegal aliens in the United States, and some expert demographers admit the 2000 census may have missed up to 5 million more.

10% of U.S. workforce may soon be illegal. The Northeastern University study found another anomaly. From 1994 to 2000, U.S. businesses reported creating 5.2 million more jobs than U.S. workers reported obtaining. They believe this discrepancy is from illegal aliens who wish to avoid coming to the government's attention. They conclude the annual increase in illegal aliens is between 500,000 and 1 million and is about the same as the net number of legal immigrants each year.

Invasion: Exposes how America continues to welcome terrorists, criminal aliens, foreign murderers, torturers, foreign menaces, and the rest of the world's "undesirables" to our shores - by Michelle Malkin, Hardcover, 332 pages, $19.87. Ms. Malkin writes for the Jewish World Review and is 1st generation of immigrant parents.

Don't be tricked by open-border advocates like John Fund (Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal) and others at the Wall street Journal, or by pro-immigration organizations like *LULAC and *La RAZA (The Race), and by politicians and other NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) who use these new trick words for another illegal alien amnesty. Words like "progressive solution," or "normalization," or "regularization" (John Fund uses this trick word numerous times on C-SPAN2, completely tricking most of his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Feb. 1st, 2003), or "new accords," words which all translate into another new illegal alien amnesty for as many as 13 million illegal aliens in the U.S.

Don't believe people like John Fund and the Wall Street Journal who say border control would be, "like a new Berlin Wall," and that the Posse Comitatus Act would not allow our U.S. military at the U.S. border. Sorry John, but the Posse Comitatus Act goes out the window when the U.S. homeland is under attack. (like blowing up the Pentagon and the World Trade Centers on 9-11, remember?). Saying the U.S. military can't protect our country when we are under attack is quite ridiculous! And John Fund even attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D. C., on February 1st. But we know a trojan horse when we see one.

From 1916 to 1919 over 110,000 U.S. troops successfully stopped the infiltration of Mexican and German terrorists, foreign nationals, and illegal contraband coming across the line from Mexico and into the United States. So don't believe the uninformed open border advocates. Please write or call your representative in Congress and let them know why you think this new amnesty is a terrible idea for the many reasons listed here on our site. Call or write now! The Wall Street Journal is one of the biggest media endorsers of illegal immigration and of an open border. We suggest anyone with a subscription may please want to let it lapse. Most all the information the Wall Street Journal contains is on the internet for little or no charge now anyway.

Illegal aliens work in the U.S. for as little as 1/50th (one-fiftieth) the wage of U.S. workers doing exactly the same job. The U.S. Border Report interviewed José Ladrillo (not real name), a Mexican illegal alien, working as a brick mason for $1.00 per day in Southern California. José constructs brick and stone fireplaces, stone walls, and roof and floor tiles for million-dollar-plus architect-designed homes in the San Diego area. He can find no work in Mexico. He has worked in Southern California for the last 6 years. José's $1.00 per day is 1/50th of the legal wage of an eight hour work day at the current official California minimum wage of $6.25 (now $6.75) per hour (one-fiftieth of $50.00), but José typically works ten hours or more each day for his $1.00 a day. José says he is happy to have a job, is happy to get paid in cash, and that he would never turn-in his employer to the authorities. Nor would he disclose these job and wage facts to anyone he suspects to be a government authority or a member of the regular news media.

Experts estimate at least $1.1 billion dollars are paid in "under the table" unreported cash wages every year in Los Angeles county, California. Multiply this figure by the 50 or so largest cities in the U.S. and one can extrapolate that many more billions go unreported as wages; major portions of which are sent to Mexico and other countries.

You may think this is an isolated example, but it is not. In fact, more illegal aliens work under conditions like these than work for major U.S. corporations like Tyson Foods, which generally pay much better wages. This example of José Ladrillo is more the norm than the exception. Illegal aliens are working in auto-body shops and sleeping at night in the wrecked customer cars in the storage yards. Some illegal aliens are working on ranches and for home-owners in San Diego county (usually rural) for absolutely NO wages, and many are sleeping in barns, old autos, old trailers, and other out-buildings. Some San Diego and Imperial county residents jokingly brag about having "our own Mexican" as if they are personal property or slaves.

José lives, sleeps, cooks, and eats on the floor of the unfinished, unheated house where he is working. He has no employment benefits, no breaks, no lunch hours, not even a toilet or running water until the plumbing is installed. When he has no house under construction to live in, he sleeps in one of his employer's work vehicles in the company equipment lot, or sometimes he sleeps outside under the bushes or trees near the work site. Some work sites have dozens of illegal workers living like this in the nearby bushes and trees. Workers sometimes construct homes and whole villages of scrap plywood, wooden pallets, cardboard boxes, and plastic tarps. North San Diego county has a number of these cardboard and plastic tarp migrant communities, usually hidden in the densely vegetated canyons and trees near farms or construction sites.

José's employer helps him return home to Mexico every year for the Christmas holidays by dropping him off and picking him up at remote locations along the Mexico border east of San Diego. José manages to send home $25 every month to his family in Mexico, but the telegram company takes a big commission and fee.

Employment arrangements like this are called "peonage," a form of modern slavery, and are not uncommon today in construction, auto repair, manufacturing, textile, landscaping, nursery, gardening, lawn care, hotel, restaurant, fast food, child care, maid service, plumbing and heating, roofing, dry walling, painting, brick laying, warehousing, ranch and farm, meat packing, food processing, newspaper and merchandise delivery, car wash and detailing, security, taxi-cab, massage parlor and prostitution, and many other mostly blue collar trades, especially in border states and states with large numbers of illegal aliens like California and New York.

If we need illegal aliens to do these so-called menial jobs today as the open-border advocates say, then who did these jobs in the past before illegal aliens flooded our country in the late 80s and 90s? Well we at the U.S. Border Report can tell you ... it was hard-working American citizens who did these jobs for a fair wage! And if employing illegal aliens causes lower prices for goods and services in the U.S., then why are California and New York the two most expensive states to live in? They have by far the most illegal aliens, more than in any other states, so everything should cost less in CA and NY. Dream on, because it isn't so.

We pay more for using illegal alien labor because they and the workers they have replaced overload every city, state, and federal public service program in existence to the point of failure, and about 40% of all illegal aliens don't work at all based on the Northeastern University study, they only collect more public aid and have more U.S. citizen babies so they can use "chain migration" to have the rest of their extended families (fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, grandparents) qualify for U.S. citizenship.

On January 1, 2002, the official minimum wage in rural Mexico was $0.37 cents per hour in U.S. denomination (USD), or $3.75 USD for a typical 10 hour rural workday in Mexico, and the official minimum wage in California was raised from $6.25 to to $6.75 per hour.

This is an 1824% wage differential between the mandated Mexico minimum wage and the mandated state of California minimum wage. In rural Mexico $1.00 USD per day is considered a good wage by many people with no jobs. About 3/4ths or about 75 million Mexicans live in rural Mexico, with little or no employment-for-a-wage opportunities. It is these people who are migrating to the United States to work. Or more accurately, it is the family fathers aged usually about 25 to 35, or their young sons (and now daughters) aged about 15 through 25. And more often today, young newly-married families often with a child on the way, or with young children in tow.

Some Mexican states such as Zacatecas have lost 50% of their population as a result of emigration to the U.S., and experts at the University of Zacatecas estimate that about 600,000 Zacatecan citizens now live in the United States, or about half the state's population of 1.2 million. Zacatecas is one of Mexico's 31 states. In numbers, Jalisco state and others have lost even more people.

In March 2001, the author of this report visited numerous villages in the interior of Sinaloa (state), Mexico, and found that most were almost deserted of younger people (approximately ages 15 to 40). When asked where everyone had gone, older people just shrugged their shoulders without answering, while younger children happily replied, "Los Estados Unidos!" (The United States), more often in English than in Spanish. The public grade school the author visited was teaching classes in English to all students.

Today, another person is without a job, unemployed. He is Joe Jones (not real name), an U.S. citizen, and a skilled black African-American brick mason in Southern California who learned his trade in an union apprenticeship program for minorities in the 1980s. He is collecting an unemployment benefit of $175.00 per week, and a welfare benefit of $325.00 per month; money that other U.S. citizens paid as taxes to the state and federal government. He also collects a small union benefit for out of work union members. He may soon give up looking for shade-tree underground-economy brick work on his own, or waiting for union work as a brick mason, and take a lower-paying job, or even a part-time job. This displaced American worker wants his higher-paying job back, and he wants to work, and not collect transfer-payment benefits that only provide a portion of the standard of living to which his family is accustomed.

Many people (and many economists, too) in the U.S. conclude that "illegal aliens are only working at jobs American workers don't want or refuse to do," and they are partially correct because no American in Southern California or anywhere else in the U.S. could or would live on $1.00 per day in peonage like José Ladrillo. And José is a good worker, and he is a good father and good husband, and he sends almost all his earnings home to Mexico each month. Workers like José transmit about $12 billion dollars every year home to Mexico. Therefore, the common belief that "illegal aliens are only working at jobs American workers don't want or refuse to do," is laughable correct. What U.S. worker is willing to work for $1.00 a day and live under a bush? Not many to be sure.

But in the above case of Joe Jones, and all other American citizen displaced workers, this common belief is incorrect, and realistically, it is a false conclusion too, when one believes, "illegal aliens are only working at jobs American workers don't want or refuse to do," because these Americans do want back their approximately 5.2 million-plus displaced good-paying jobs, and they have not refused to work anywhere, or to work at any job.

Additionally, foreign nationals who are entering and working in the U.S. without immigration and work visas, without paying income taxes, without registering with the U.S. Selective Service System if male between age 18 and 26 (the vast majority of male illegal aliens from Mexico are in this age group), and without paying F.I.C.A. social security withholdings (really hidden taxes too), are all committing very serious crimes, as are all U.S. employers who knowingly transport, employ, and exploit these same foreign nationals.

The U.S. Selective Service System: All U.S. male citizens, and all male illegal alien non-citizens upon entry into the United States, who are 18 through 25 must register with the Selective Service System (draft board). If you do not register, you can be prosecuted for a felony and fined up to $250,000 and/or be put in jail for up to five years. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (I&NS) makes registration with the Selective Service a condition for U.S. citizenship if you first arrived in the U.S. before your 26th birthday. See the Selective Service System chart of all males who must register. Foreign national aliens with a valid U.S. resident green card are eligible for U.S. military service, and then perhaps even fast-track U.S. citizenship. Abajo en Espanol.

Congress opens U.S. roads to Mexican trucks. We oppose opening the border to Mexican trucks until Mexican truckers must comply with the same safety standards, the same liability insurance requirements, the same licensing and driver tests, and the same standardized record keeping as U.S. truckers must.

México to cut oil exports to U.S. to help O.P.E.C. keep world oil (and gasoline) prices up. México will cut oil exports up to 100,000 barrels per day in 2002 as part of OPEC's efforts to reduce oversupply in the world market, the Méxican Energy Ministry said Wednesday night. OPEC officials said they wanted 500,000 barrels per day in non-OPEC cuts to avoid their members losing market share by bearing the full weight of the reductions. México is the second leading exporter of oil to the United States behind Canada. México is not a member of OPEC.
 

Read an interesting history of one of Pancho Villa's terrorist raids on the United States in 1916.

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Unmanned drones will guard U.S. coastlines (and land borders?).

Smugglers decimate Mexican forests to make room for drug crops.

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L.A. gangs: A national threat coming soon to your community.

Illegal aliens pour into U.S. unabated by U.S. war on terror.

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Smugglers drugging illegal aliens with cocaine and methamphetamine.

Census study finds 13 million illegal aliens in U.S.

Thousands of ineligible voters are registered throughout U.S.A.

Militants of al-Qaida trained in Alabama.

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Former N.Y.C. Mayor Giuliani and RoboCops battle Mexico City's criminals.

Civilian militia group organized in Arizona to protect U.S. border.

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Senator Pryor (former Arkansas A.G.) hired illegal alien worker.

Israel constructs 280 mile electrified razor-wire anti-terrorist fence.

Only 12.7% of U.S. imported oil comes from Persian Gulf countries.

U.S. Navy Seals join probe of radioactive ship 8 miles from Ground 0.

9 die in southern Mexico in dispute over stolen U.S. drug shipment.

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Gallup poll: 94% of Americans oppose Mexican amnesty.

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Illegal aliens not registered face 5 years jail, $250,000 fine.

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Decisive military action should have been taken during the hostage crisis in 1979 in Iran, after the U.S. Marines barracks bombings in Lebanon in 1984 which killed over one hundred, after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, after the 18 servicemen murders in Somalia in 1992-93, after the U.S.S. Cole bombing in Yemen in 1998 which killed 17 sailors, and after the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya which also killed hundreds. The loss of life in retaliation then would have been significantly less, than it already has been today, and will be in the future. Shame on Democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and the Democrat controlled Congress in 1984.

The al Qaeda terrorists are using asymmetric warfare and the left-leaning U.S. news media so successfully that about half of the U.S. population, and even the F.B.I., now suspect that the anthrax attacks are domestic terrorism perpetrated on U.S. citizens by other U.S. citizens. The authorities and the public continue to ignore the fact that the anthrax attacks are occurring worldwide, mostly ruling out terrorism from any U.S. hate group. Forty or more Weapons of Mass Destruction (W.M.D.) labs and sites have been discovered in Afghanistan since September 11, 2001.

CNN TV reports the anthrax attacks could be the work of "domestic right wing hate groups such as militias." This is absurd considering the current war in Afghanistan, and the al Qaeda terrorist attacks on 11 September. Perhaps CNN TV isn't aware that the U.S. militia is provided for by the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment, and by U.S. federal law: U.S. Code, Title 10, Subchapter A, Part 1, Chapter 13, Section 311 says: "The classes of the militia are: 1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and 2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia" (all male U.S. citizens between the ages of 18 and 45 (64 if a veteran), and all former female members of the armed forces under age 64). Shame on CNN.

From al Qaeda's point of view the 100% destruction of the W.T.C. was highly successful, but if civilian casualties were the primary objective, then the 9-11 attacks were largely failures. The total physical destruction of the W.T.C. towers may have even surprised the al Qaeda planners. This is not to take lightly the loss of 3,578 innocent citizens' lives from at least 85 countries (we include Flight 587 which crashed in Queens, NY, and the anthrax attacks), but the potential death toll was nearly 60,000 people at the W.T.C. and the Pentagon, and far fewer died and were injured. While also terrifying, the anthrax biological attacks have been almost total failures from the standpoint of casualties. To date (13 December 2001), the C.D.C. has confirmed 18 cases of anthrax, five of them fatal.

The terrorist's demand calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state has always been a diversionary tactic, a new Palestine has never really been a true goal of the PLO, or more recently al Qaeda. Islamic regimes exist in Syria (over 60% Palestinian), Lebanon, Jordan, and every other country in the middle east, so why is another "Palestine" Islamic state necessary? Answer: It isn't, and it never has been. This demand is used as a ploy to justify terrorism against Israel. The real objective is the complete elimination of Israel.

The U.S. military must not place major military assets within any Islamic country because of the high probability of a nuclear, biological, or chemical attack from the host or a country bordering the host country. Beware, China may be waiting in the anteroom. China provided Pakistan with the plans for its nuclear weapons. China sold Pakistan intermediate range ballistic missiles capable of carrying those nuclear warheads. We see the shrewdness of oriental minds in this madness. This may be WWIII. This is good verses evil, and western culture verses nihilistic paganism.

American Airlines Flight 587: We continue to believe the Veteran's Day crash of American Airlines Flight 587 is a terrorist event. We fully understand the U.S. government's decision to classify this information based on the bankrupt and deteriorating condition of the U.S. airlines, and because of the importance of convenient public air travel to our national security. We believe the Airbus A300 was sabotaged with a bomb or by criminal tampering. The Flight 587 A300 Airbus arrived in New York from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

"First I heard a big explosion. Then I saw flames come out from behind the plane. And then a whole wing with the engine fell off." - Antonio Villela, a construction worker, eyewitness to American Airlines Flight 587 disaster, New York City, 12 November 2001, killing 265 people, and making this crash the 2nd worse aviation disaster in U.S. history. The destination of American Airlines Flight 587 was the city of Santo Domingo (which translates to "Holy Sunday," or translates to "Saint Dominic," who was the First Inquisitor in 1184, and a Crusader of the 4th Crusade in 1208, and the founder of the Roman Catholic Dominican Friars). We believe these are some of the reasons why this well-known American Airlines New York "Flight 587" to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic was chosen by the Islamic al Qaeda terrorists.

Dominicans make up an estimated 800,000 of New York's 8 million people. Nearly one-fourth of the Dominicans are thought to hold U.S. citizenship (or 75% are not U.S. citizens), said Luis Eludis Perez, the Dominican consul in New York.

"Our enemy is every American male, whether he is directly fighting us or paying taxes." - Usama bin Laden, Islamic fundamentalist cleric religious leader, 1998, in interview aired on Al Jazira television from Doha, Qatar.

Yossef Bodansky, head of the Congressional Task Force on Non-Conventional Terrorism in Washington, D.C., says al Qaeda has nuclear weapons: "[About 1997] Bin Laden’s associates acquired the devices (21 to 43 suitcase nuclear bombs) through Chechnya, paying the Chechens $30 million in cash and two tons of Afghan heroin, worth about $70 million in Afghanistan and about 10 times more on the street in Western cities."- "Bin Laden has several Nuclear Suitcases," reproduced from the Jerusalem Report, October 25th, 1999.

The traveling American public, the T.V. and radio media pundits, and the politicians all want professional airport screeners, but our wide-open borders are allowing scores of potential terrorists to walk into the United States every day. The Immigration and Naturalization Service reports 389,427 illegal aliens were caught walking across, being smuggled across, or driving across the border from Mexico into southern CA in fiscal year 1999. That's 1,067 a day. And many more weren't caught nationwide, and aren't being caught today. Free trade and open-borders are not the same concept. We support free international trade. We do not support open borders that allow millions of foreign nationals and potential terrorists to just walk in along our border with Mexico (and to a much lesser extent Canada).

From 1916 to 1919 over 110,000 U.S. troops were successfully used to stop the infiltration of potential terrorists, foreign nationals, and illegal contraband coming across the Mexico border into the United States. After August 1916, nothing came into the U.S. across the Mexico border.

In 1916 General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing headed a punitive expedition into Mexico in pursuit of the bandit Pancho Villa who had committed 38 terrorist attacks resulting in the deaths of 45 U.S. citizens. Three weeks after the passage of the 1916 National Defense Act in late June, the National Guard of 47 states and Alaska and the District of Columbia were called into Federal service. There were as many as 111,954 U.S. National Guardsmen troops along the Mexico border by the end of August 1916.

The two most important points to remember are: 1) Destroying Pancho Villa's army, which the Punitive Expedition did, was more important than capturing or killing Pancho Villa, which the Punitive Expedition failed to do; and 2) From 1916 to 1919 over 110,000 U.S. troops were used successfully to stop the infiltration of potential terrorists, foreign nationals, and illegal contraband coming across the Mexico border into the United States.

Read an interesting parallel history of Pancho Villa's terrorist raids on the United States below.

U.S. Border infiltration by terrorists: On Friday October 5th, a man speaking a foreign language (not Spanish), carrying a knife and radio or police scanner, and wearing dark clothes including a black hood with the eyes cut out, tried to hijack a twin engine turbo-prop aircraft 25 miles north of the Mexico border at the airport in Deming, New Mexico. The hijacking was foiled when the pilot swerved the aircraft off of the runway during the takeoff roll. The terrorist then escaped after yelling something described by the pilot as sounding like, "Solama." We believe terrorist cell groups are currently entering the U.S. from Mexico. Islamic terrorist groups have been reported recently in northern Mexico. See the smuggling report in the archives for more information.

When U.S. Border Report asked east San Diego county rancher Jesse Malverdes what he thought about the terrorist attacks on September 11th, he replied, "We're deeply saddened, but we've been living in fear on the Mexico border since 1994. Now the rest of the country knows what it's like." Mr. Malverde's ranch is in southern California east of San Diego and directly on the Mexico border. The ranch is criss-crossed with smuggler and illegal alien trails that were not here before 1995. The problems, he says, got worse in the 1990s when the Mexican economy collapsed in 1994, and the Mexican population exploded to over 100 million with 40% under the age of 18, and the U.S. Border Patrol began pushing smugglers and illegal aliens east from the city of San Diego into the backcountry with Operation Gatekeeper in late 1994. He has had two illegal alien caused wildfires on and near his property since 1994. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (I&NS) reports 389,427 illegal aliens were caught crossing the border from Mexico into southern CA in fiscal year 1999. Mr. Malverdes says he suspects many more weren't caught. He says dozens, occasionally hundreds, continue to cross his ranch almost nightly.

The 389,427 illegal aliens mentioned above caught in fiscal year 1999 by the U.S. Border Patrol crossing the Mexico border into California are apprehensions, not total entries. Therefore, the total entries into California each year may be 500% higher (1,947,135) using fiscal year 1999's 389,427 apprehensions as a 20% rate of apprehension, or the total entries into California each year may be 1000% higher (3,894,270) using the same 389,427 figure as a 10% rate of apprehension. These California total entry estimates are based on the I&NS's own official numbers. The true numbers may even be higher. The apprehension figures declined from fiscal 1998's 474,795 to fiscal 1999's 389,427 because of an accounting change, not because of a real decrease in illegal immigration. After fiscal year 1998 if the same illegal alien is caught crossing the border 25 times in a fiscal year this is now recorded as only one crossing attempt apprehension, not as 25 apprehensions, as it would have been recorded previous to fiscal year 1999. Illegal immigration is actually increasing, not decreasing, and in fiscal years 2000 and 2001 it is occurring in even higher numbers in Arizona, but this new system of measuring makes illegal immigration look to be decreasing, not increasing, as it actually is.

U.S. border wildfires up 1,342%: In 1994 Operation Gatekeeper in the city of San Diego began pushing illegal aliens inland into the backcountry of San Diego county with the new 14 mile border fence and increased enforcement. In just two years wildfires increased by 1,342% in eastern San Diego county along the U.S.- Mexico border, and the area became the nation's most active illegal alien crossing spot. San Diego county supervisor Diane Jacob says undocumented immigrants sparked 322 wildfires in 1996 compared with 24 fires in the same area reported in 1994. The costs of such fires, she says, added to those of medical costs for immigrants who are injured and treated, by law, in local hospitals, is $228 million. In each of the last 2 winters, a season not normally considered "wildfire season," San Diego county has had major multi-million dollar wildfires destroying up to 100 structures including 61 homes valued at up to $300,000 each or more. The February 2002 San Diego wildfire cost is now at $25 million dollars and the cost continues to increase. We at the U.S. Border Report warned of these large border wildfires over five years ago. Now they are an annual disaster in San Diego county. Until the 2001 and 2002 wildfires, the last major wildfire in San Diego county was over 30 years ago.

We've reported U.S. border infiltrations across the Mexico border near San Diego, CA, in the remote backcountry since February 1996. Most groups are believed to be illegal aliens from Mexico and other countries such as Guatemala, Cuba, Poland, Russia, and China. Origins were determined by the locations listed on the manufacturer's label of discarded items such as bath towels and clothing, or by talking directly to, or overhearing the language of the illegal aliens. However, some groups observed appeared to be trained military infiltration units.

The U.S. Navy, the U.S. Border Patrol, the U.S. Army's Joint Task Force 6, the F.B.I., and at least 3 local San Diego county law enforcement personnel were contacted on a number of occasions about these activities without any observable results, except one short and slightly confusing F.B.I. interview with 3 agents.

"One group was tracked 4 miles across the Mexico border to a waiting 4wd vehicle, and the group leader had some connection to Montreal, Canada. A damp sweat-soaked black T-shirt (tag removed), a key ring with a Montreal, Canada emblem with 4 large padlock master-type keys (one marked "Diamond, Guangzhou, China"; one marked "MR ALBA R1-1"; and two marked "VALE"), and a black daypack-type backpack (tag removed) were recovered in a dry desert wash near where the black Dodge Ramcharger 4wd SUV vehicle was hidden. The damp sweaty black T-shirt and key ring with keys were removed from the black backpack. This infiltration across the Mexican border continues today in the same remote area." Contact jesus_malverdes@hotmail.com for more information about this event.

On another occasion seven white colored trucks with San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E) markings on their doors were observed parked directly on the Mexican border on a remote 4wd road for about 5 days and nights over the Veteran's Day holiday weekend in 1995 (a somewhat unusual time to be doing powerline maintenance).

"They were parked near some very large powerlines on the ranch directly on the Mexican border about 4 1/2 miles east of Jacumba, CA, and 1 mile south of Route 80. One of these vehicles was a tanker-type water truck, which I did think somewhat odd, as the roads are not dusty here (they are soft sand or hard clay - neither is dusty). Tanker-type water trucks are sometimes used to keep down dust on dusty roads at construction sites, or to clean the powerline insulators on lower voltage powerlines - but not on these 500 KV powerlines I don't believe. These are very large power lines from Tucson, Az. They are about 500,000 volts (500 Kilovolts) and you would not want a stream of water anywhere near them unless the power was turned off. I learned this as a wildland firefighter at the C.D.F. Wildland Fire Fighting Academy. The power was never turned off, because I could see its glow and arcing at night, and hear it in the lines during the day, as my trailer was only about 1/8th mile away. These power lines are so full of electricity, when I rode under them on horseback, on a foggy, damp, morning, my horse's mane would straighten from the bleed-off charges of static electricity.

"One SDG&E tanker truck looked like a construction company 2 1/2 ton water-truck, two looked like 2 1/2 ton oiler-trucks used to maintain heavy earth moving equipment, two looked like Ford 3/4 ton mechanic's trucks with rear tool compartments, one like a 2 1/2 ton excavator boom truck, and one like a mini pickup. The mini pickup arrived two or three days before the rest, and all the trucks must have remained both day and night because I never saw them leave, except for one of the mechanic's trucks as it drove by me out to Route 80 while I was walking one morning on the dirt road a few days before I returned to San Diego. This is when I saw the driver's face and the rear window decal I later recognized on the same truck parked across from my home in San Diego a few days later. I have an extensive heavy equipment background from working more than 3 years in management for Caterpillar Tractor Company in their Peoria, Illinois, world headquarters, and as a factory representative for them in CA, AZ, NV, and Mexico.

"Now for the real puzzler. Three of these same trucks (a mini pickup and two 3/4 ton Ford mechanic's trucks) I had observed on the ranch for about 5 days and nights directly on the Mexico border in November were parked across the street from my permanent home 66 miles west in San Diego when I returned there on about December 9th, 1995. I recognized one driver from seeing him on the ranch, a black male. But I only saw 2 drivers briefly with the trucks, the driver I recognized, and one driving the mini pickup, a white male wearing thick glasses. The 3 trucks remained across the street from my home for 2 days. Where the drivers were during this time, I'm unsure, but they were not with the vehicles except briefly. I recognized the one truck from a distinctive decal in the rear window. I later checked the plate number with a San Diego Sheriff, and it was registered to a national rental company named Penske Truck Rental, not to the San Diego Gas and Electric Company. I called SDG&E's transportation department for more information, but they would not reveal any information at all as to whether they owned or leased the trucks. They would give me absolutely no information.

"I then told the F.B.I. in San Diego about the trucks being on the ranch, but not about them being across the street from my home in San Diego. Actually, I was hesitant to tell the F.B.I. about the trucks being across from my home, because I thought they might think I'd really lost it. This fact is very weird I admit, and I don't understand it at all. The F.B.I. came to my home, listened to my report, but really didn't seem too interested, as they asked very few relevant followup questions and then left. These trucks could have been legitimate SDG&E maintenance trucks; or they could have been smuggling anything: cocaine, marijuana, or even nuclear weapons into the United States. White trucks are plentiful in southern California, and door decals are inexpensive. Contact jesus_malverdes@hotmail.com for more information about this event.

The U.S. Border Report has been warning about a biological warfare attack danger for over 6 years. It would be no more difficult for terrorists carrying 40 lbs. of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons across the Mexico border in their backpacks, than it is for the smugglers carrying 40 lbs. of pot into the U.S. today.

Anthrax: Considered to be a potential agent for use in biological warfare. Anthrax is caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis, and most commonly occurs in cattle and other herbivores. Anthrax is primarily an animal disease. Humans can become infected when they are exposed to anthrax spoors, infected animals, or tissue from infected animals. Florida is among the top 20 cattle and beef producing U.S. states. List of anthrax research links and relevant excerpts.

"In 1970, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert committee estimated that casualties following the theoretical aircraft release of 50 kg (about 110 pounds) of anthrax over a developed urban population of 5 million would be 250,000, 100,000 of whom would be expected to die without treatment. A 1993 report by the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment estimated that between 130,000 and 3 million deaths could follow the aerosolized release of 100 kg (about 220 pounds) of anthrax spores upwind of the Washington, DC, area - lethality matching or exceeding that of a hydrogen bomb. An economic model developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested a cost of $26.2 billion per 100,000 persons exposed."

Foot & Mouth: Experts estimate a biological warfare foot & mouth attack on the U.S., similar to the recent U.K. outbreak, could cost the U.S. over $1 trillion dollars. 4 million animals have been killed in Britain this year. The new strain of the foot & mouth epidemic in the U.K. has been traced to an outbreak first occurring in S.W. Asia (India) in 1990. Some experts say foot & mouth in the U.K. was only a trial run.

An U.S. State Department "Black Ops" AY-65 Thrush crop-duster counter-insurgency aircraft used in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Latin America, and Asia to spray drug crops remains missing since October 1st while enroute from Colombia to Patrick Air Force Base in Melbourne, Florida. Read a possible asymmetric warfare scenario using this very unusual combat crop duster aircraft. U.S. civilian aircraft "N-Registration" number search.

Francisco "Pancho" Villa - 09 March 1916 Terrorist Raid on Columbus, N.M. - From "Huachuca Illustrated," A Magazine of the U.S. Army Fort Huachuca, AZ, Museum.

Villa's growing hatred toward the Americans did not take long to make itself apparent. On 10 January 1916, villistas [Pancho Villa's army] stopped a train at San Ysabel, [Mexico] took off eighteen American miners and engineers who had been assured safe passage by the Carranza government [President of Mexico] , lined them up, stripped off their clothes, and executed them. In fact raids on U.S. soil from across the border had occurred with alarming frequency. From July 1915 to June 1916, there were 38 raids on the U.S. by Mexican bandits, which resulted in the death of 37 U.S. citizens, 26 of them soldiers.

Colonel Herbert H. Slocum, commander of the 13th Cavalry garrison stationed at Columbus, New Mexico, was also hearing reports of Villa's movements south of the border. A foreman at a nearby ranch rode in on 8 March to report that he had seen Villa around Palomas [Mexico], just six miles to the south. But other observers contradicted this report and it was not investigated.

But Villa, the Tiger of the North, was out there. He was in camp at Boca Raton (hmm...) with some 485 of his men. After two of his officers returned from a walk around Columbus, New Mexico, on 8 March and said they thought there were only thirty American soldiers on the post, Villa saddled up his forces. At 4:00 in the afternoon the column moved north and sometime after midnight crossed the border. Deploying his men around the sleeping desert town, at approximately 4:00 a.m., the battle cry of "Vayanse adelante, muchachos!" ("Advance forward, boys!") was sounded and the almost 500 villistas swept into its sand-drifted streets. Yelling "Viva Villa!" ("Long live Villa!") and, according to some, "Muerte a los gringos!" ("Death to all Americans!") they completely surprised the town and the garrison.

Upon hearing the first shots at about 4:15 a.m., the Officer of the Day, Lieut. James P. Castleman, ran to the guard tent, shooting a villista [soldier of Pancho Villa's army] on the way, and turned out the guard. He then joined up with his F Troop, 13th Cavalry, which had been formed up by Sergeant Michael Fody. The camp and town were under a general attack from two directions.

Minutes later, Lieut. John P. Lucas, who had just returned on the midnight train from El Paso where he had been participating in regimental polo matches, saw a horseman ride by his window. He was wearing a high-peaked sombrero characteristic of the villistas. Hurrying outside, he joined the attackers who were running toward the barracks, the darkness concealing his identity. Gaining the barracks of his Machine Gun Troop, he led his men to the guard tent where their weapons were under lock and key. Despite several incidents of the French-made Benet-Mercier machine guns jamming, the four gun crews managed to loose 20,000 rounds at the enemy.

With the American defense organized and stiffening, and the sun coming up on the battleground, Villa broke off the attack and ordered a general retreat at about 6:30. He left behind at least sixty-seven dead. About thirteen others would later die of their wounds. Five Mexicans were taken prisoner.

It wasn't until 7:30 a.m. that all of the villistas had cleared the town. Villa with thirty riflemen occupied a hill southeast of the town to cover the retreat. Major Frank Tompkins mounted a pursuit that dealt the raiders a telling blow and earned for him the Distinguished Service Cross. American casualties in the 9 March attack on Columbus included 10 civilians and 8 soldiers killed, 2 civilians and 6 military wounded, for a total of 18 killed and 8 wounded. A block-wide area in the center of town had been torched and burned to the ground, including the Commercial Hotel belonging to Sam Ravel, the man said to have double-crossed Villa in a gun deal.

The attack on this isolated, lightly garrisoned outpost yielded from the 13th U.S. Cavalry's arsenal and stables loads of rifles, machine guns, ammunition and a herd of more than a hundred horses and mules.

American reaction to the 9 March [1916] raid on Columbus, New Mexico, by Pancho Villa was immediate. A flurry of diplomatic notes made clear to Carranza that the United States expected the de facto government in Mexico to take steps to hunt down and bring to justice Villa and his Army so that the threat to the American border would be eliminated. But few in Washington or in the Southwest believed that the beleaguered Carranza government had the power to do so.

The day after the raid Major General Funston was wiring Washington recommending a pursuit be organized. Funston was of the opinion that "unless Villa is relentlessly pursued and his forces scattered he will continue raids. As troops of the Mexican Government are accomplishing nothing and, as he consequently can make his preparations and concentrations without being disturbed, he can strike at any point on the border..."

Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, new on the job, called Chief of Staff of the Army, Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, into a huddle and told him, "I want to start an expedition into Mexico to catch Villa."

According to Major General Hugh Lenox Scott, "This seemed strange... and I asked: 'Mr. Secretary, do you want the United States to make war on one man? Suppose he should get onto a train and go to Guatemala, Yucatan, or South America; are you going to go after him?'"

"He said, 'Well, no, I am not.'"

"'That is not what you want then. You want his band captured or destroyed,' I suggested."

"'Yes,' he said, 'that is what I really want.'"

"And after his approval the... telegram was sent to General Funston... in which it will be seen that no mention is made of the capture of Villa himself."

Funston received that telegram on 10 March [1916]. It gave him the go-ahead to organize the punitive expedition and named Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing as the commander.

From "Huachuca Illustrated," A Magazine of the U.S. Army Fort Huachuca, AZ, Museum, The Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Huachuca, The first of three issues, Volume 1, 1993, by James P. Finley.

Texas man quits U.S. border walk, "Too hot!" - AP News.

Only cover 5 miles a day. Use Top Ramens for food. Top Ramens can be prepared by placing in a covered metal mess kit and setting out in the sun for 15 minutes (no cooking required). Forget about taking a tent, it'll blow away. Do take a ground-cover sun-shade canvas tarp (not plastic) and a small whisk broom for getting the sand off that blows onto it. Avon Skin-So-Soft mixed with #45 sunscreen works well for insects (mosquitos and chiggers near desert springs) too (take 16 oz.), and it keeps Fire ants, ticks, and snakes away at night if you apply it sparingly around the perimeter of the ground-cover.

Travel in the morning and evening, or at night with the moon. Take a First Need water filter and a package of paper coffee-maker basket-style filters, and take the coffee-maker screen too, to filter out the moss, sand, dirt, dust, and algae from the only water you will find in desert springs. Your water filter won't become clogged nearly as quickly if you filter the water first through the coffee filters, then through the First Need water filter. Take a military-style collapsible 3 gallon canvas water bucket and 2 collapsible 2 1/2 gallon plastic water containers. Test all your gear in the desert first.

There are wildlife guzzlers (large concrete catch basins with underground cisterns with a removable manhole cover on top and access for small wildlife on one end - be careful of snakes inside) in the Jacumba area that are drinkable after filtering. Because water costs more than electricity in southern California, near the border you will find that property owners have removed the outdoor water spigot handles from their water outlets and risers, or they have been covered and padlocked, because illegal aliens use hugh amounts of expensive water belonging to the local residents. But a little known California state law also makes it a crime to withhold water, or to demand payment, from anyone in need of water in the California desert.

So take a small pair of pliers to turn the water spigots on to get water (ask first, if you can), and to pull out the jumping chollas cactus balls and spines from your body and your boots. I also pack a long course-toothed comb (rapper comb) for this purpose in an easily accessible backpack compartment I can reach with the backpack still on my back. A bath towel or two are handy in the desert too. If you feel heat exhaustion coming on, get in the shade of a mesquite bush quickly (or any shade), and then wait for dusk before continuing. This prudent move has saved me more than once in the desert heat.

Watch out for vicious Pit Bull dogs. Especially east of Jacumba, CA, about 5 miles. They are common along the border, and used by drug smugglers and local residents to protect their homes and smuggling turf. California also has two little known public beach and livestock movement easement laws that allow anyone with or without livestock to cross anyone's private property, if they take the shortest route between two non-adjoining public properties, and if they do no intentional property damage.

Do not cut barbed-wire fences. Leave gates as you find them. In California, the U.S. border is a strip of federal land 90' feet wide with 60' feet on the U.S. side of the 6-strand barbed-wire border fence (may not exist in some places), and 30' on the Mexican side. This is not so in other states, and I understand the federal government owns no land at the border in other states (except federal B.L.M. land, etc.), but has an easement right. By U.S. Federal law, the U.S. Border Patrol (not vehicles) has the right to enter all property (not dwellings) within 25 miles of the border, public or private, without a warrant.

Pack out your trash (including toilet paper). I use one gallon size zip lock freezer bags. Dead agave leaves pulled from the outer part of the agave plant make excellent toilet paper, if the need arises.

I have never had a problem with the U.S. Border Patrol (other than a few vehicle searches at or near highway checkpoints) or the local ranchers (both have always been friendly and helpful), but I have been harassed by target shooters and smugglers near the border, even shot at on a few occasions. Be extremely careful around the All-American canal because its slippery, steeply sloping, moss-covered sides and fast current are killers that you cannot climb out of or swim across. If you fall in, you will drown. All the canals and rivers in Imperial county are dangerous and polluted with insecticides, herbicides, diseases, and sewage, do not drink from them even with a filter or boiling first. If the water has a chemical smell or taste from a water outlet in an irrigated area do not drink it, as farmers often add chemical herbicides and pesticides to piped irrigation water.

The mosquitos in the irrigated areas of Imperial county are fierce like in Canada or Alaska and they appear about dusk. They are silent, unlike mosquitos elsewhere. Take a mosquito face net. Sand chiggers are around all desert springs, so do not lay in the grass or camp there, and I always wear heavy canvas shin gaiters, and use repellent around my ankles, even while hiking in shorts. Be extremely careful of honey bees as the Africanized Killer Honey bee variety is now established all along the border to San Diego. Generally they will leave you alone around water, but stay away from any wild hives and domestic honey hives you run across in the desert. I began experiencing problems with aggressive honey bees as early as 1995 along the border. No problems with them before.

It is extremely windy in the desert areas in late Fall around Thanksgiving, and in Spring from March to June. If you want more daily water source locations along the border in San Diego county and Imperial county, contact the borderreport@hotmail.com. Better luck next time. Contact me, I might hike the border with you in San Diego county (66 miles), if you give enough lead time to get in shape (2 months).

"Honk if you voted for Gore; it's the big round button in the middle of the steering wheel."- Florida bumper sticker.

"The problem is not ignorance, the problem is what people know that's not really so."- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist.

"If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm."- African proverb.

"I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."- Nikita S Khrushchev, Soviet Premier - To Westerners, address at Split, Yugoslavia, 24 August 1963.

"All warfare is based on deception."- Sun Tzu Wu.

"Never confuse motion with action."- Benjamin Franklin.

"Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."- Benjamin Franklin.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight: nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions and blood of better men than himself."- John Stuart Mill.

"With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Therefore, he who molds public opinion goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions." - Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion."- Abraham Lincoln.

*Note: "And while organized terrorism has not been ruled out, so far we have found no direct link to organized terrorism." - FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, October 16, 2001, Press Conference at DoJ Headquarters, referencing the anthrax attacks.

Del Sistema Selectivo del Servicio de los E.E.U.U.: Todos los ciudadanos de los E.E.U.U. del varón, y todos los no-ciudadanos extranjeros ilegales masculinos sobre la entrada en los Estados Unidos, que son 18 a 25 deben colocarse con el Sistema Selectivo del Servicio (consejo del conscripción). Si usted no se coloca, usted puede ser procesado para un crimen y hasta $250.000 (dolares E.E.U.U.) multados y/o ser puesto en la cárcel por hasta cinco años. El registro de las marcas del Servicio de la Inmigración y de la Naturalización de los E.E.U.U. (I&NS, la migra) con el Servicio Selectivo una condición para la ciudadanía de los E.E.U.U. si usted primero llegó en los E.E.U.U. antes de su vigésimo sexto cumpleaños. Vea la carta Selectiva del Sistema del Servicio de todos los varones que deban colocarse.

The author of the U.S. Border Report is a former U.S. Army Chemical Weapons Technician and Smoke Generator Operator for Company B, 378th Chemical Company, 5th U.S. Army of the United States. He completed infantry training and advanced chemical, biological, and radiological warfare schools at Ft. Bragg (Co. D, 4th Bn, 1st Bg), Ft. Lee (Co. C, Student Enlisted Airborne), Ft. McClellan (Co. B, 378 Chemical Co.), Ft. McCoy (Co. I, 335th Infantry), and Ft. Ripley (Co. B, 310th Quartermaster Bn), U.S.A. He is a certified California and U.S. federal Forest Firefighter, a volunteer federal Wilderness Ranger, and he has a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois, and has completed post graduate studies in San Diego. He has a State of California Fire Marshal's certificate for Fire Control 3 advanced training, an EPA license, and a California Highway Patrol certificate for Hazardous Materials Identification. The U.S. Border Report is a private personal website and accepts no funding or donations. The uncopyrighted material on this website may be used freely. Any copyrighted material displayed or linked to on this website remains the property of the copyright owner.

*LULAC - League of United Latin American Citizens. La RAZA (The Race) Another Latino group similar to LULUC.

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UNITED STATES CODE (U.S. Federal Law) - TITLE 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 12 - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY - SUBCHAPTER II - IMMIGRATION
Part VIII - General Penalty Provisions
Sec. 1325. Improper entry by alien:
(a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts:
Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
(b) Improper time or place; civil penalties:
Any alien who is apprehended while entering (or attempting to enter) the United States at a time or place other than as designated by immigration officers shall be subject to a civil penalty of -
(1) at least $50 and not more than $250 for each such entry (or attempted entry); or
(2) twice the amount specified in paragraph (1) in the case of an alien who has been previously subject to a civil penalty under this subsection. Civil penalties under this subsection are in addition to, and not in lieu of, any criminal or other civil penalties that may be imposed.
(c) Marriage fraud:
Any individual who knowingly enters into a marriage for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined not more than $250,000, or both.
(d) Immigration-related entrepreneurship fraud:
Any individual who knowingly establishes a commercial enterprise for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined in accordance with title 18, or both.
Proposed Addition:
(e) Immigration-related birth:
Any individual who gives birth while evading any provision of the immigration laws shall forfeit all rights to U.S. citizenship by said individual for not more than 15 years; and any resulting child(ren) shall forfeit all rights to U.S. citizenship for not more than 15 years.

      (a) Whoever knowingly makes any false statement under oath, in
    any case, proceeding, or matter relating to, or under, or by virtue
    of any law of the United States relating to naturalization,
    citizenship, or registry of aliens; or
      (b) Whoever knowingly, with intent to avoid any duty or liability
    imposed or required by law, denies that he has been naturalized or
    admitted to be a citizen, after having been so naturalized or
    admitted; or
      (c) Whoever uses or attempts to use any certificate of arrival,
    declaration of intention, certificate of naturalization,
    certificate of citizenship or other documentary evidence of
    naturalization or of citizenship, or any duplicate or copy thereof,
    knowing the same to have been procured by fraud or false evidence
    or without required appearance or hearing of the applicant in court
    or otherwise unlawfully obtained; or
      (d) Whoever knowingly makes any false certificate, acknowledgment
    or statement concerning the appearance before him or the taking of
    an oath or affirmation or the signature, attestation or execution
    by any person with respect to any application, declaration,
    petition, affidavit, deposition, certificate of naturalization,
    certificate of citizenship or other paper or writing required or
    authorized by the laws relating to immigration, naturalization,
    citizenship, or registry of aliens; or
      (e) Whoever knowingly makes any false statement or claim that he
    is, or at any time has been, a citizen or national of the United
    States, with the intent to obtain on behalf of himself, or any
    other person, any Federal or State benefit or service, or to engage
    unlawfully in employment in the United States; or
      (f) Whoever knowingly makes any false statement or claim that he
    is a citizen of the United States in order to register to vote or
    to vote in any Federal, State, or local election (including an
    initiative, recall, or referendum) -
      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
    years, or both.  Subsection (f) does not apply to an alien if each
    natural parent of the alien (or, in the case of an adopted alien,
    each adoptive parent of the alien) is or was a citizen (whether by
    birth or naturalization), the alien permanently resided in the
    United States prior to attaining the age of 16, and the alien
    reasonably believed at the time of making the false statement or
    claim that he or she was a citizen of the United States.