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The Obama Administration prepares a lawsuit against SB 1070, while ignoring the sovereign loss of 3 Arizona counties to Mexican Drug Cartels, a huge swath of land is no longer under U.S. control, endangering American lives and providing deadly illegal alien criminals fertile U.S. soil to line their pockets with American cash.

Federation for American Immigration Reform (2008 estiimate)= 500,000

Department of Homeland Security (2009 estimate) = 460,000

Pew Hispanic Center (2009 estimate) = 500,000

• -The illegal alien population makes up half of the state's total foreign-born population (945,226), and 8% of the state's total population.
• -Half of all illegal border crossings into the U.S. occur along the Arizona border with Mexico.
• -From 1999 to 2008, an average of 1,375 illegal aliens a day were apprehended in the Arizona border sector. DHS does not know how many illegal aliens successfully entered Arizona each day during that period.
• -Between 1996 and 2009, the illegal alien population in Arizona increased 300%.

ECONOMIC IMPACT

• Illegal aliens make up 10% of the workforce in Arizona.
• Unemployment in Arizona in March 2010 was 9.6%.
• Over 10% of children enrolled in public schools (K-12) have parents who are in the U.S. illegally.
• Illegal aliens and their children are 37% of the uninsured population in Arizona, and the cost of uncompensated care for illegal aliens in Arizona is approximately $510 million annually.
• The total education, medical, and incarceration costs in Arizona due to illegal immigration are over $2 billion a year.

CRIME

• In Mexico, more than 22,000 people have been killed in an ongoing drug war. Between January 2007 and June 2009 there were over 2,500 murders in Mexico near the Arizona border.
• Arizona's violent crime rate ranks 13th highest in the U.S. Phoenix has the second highest kidnapping rate in the world behind Mexico City.
• In 2008, there were 368 kidnapping and 337 home invasions in Arizona, a 61% increase just since 2005. The city of Phoenix formed a police taskforce in 2009 to combat the rising levels of violence, and still recorded over 300 kidnapping that year. The city of Tucson formed a similar taskforce in 2008 as a response to 150 home invasions.
• A Phoenix police spokesman estimated that the number of reported kidnappings represented only up to a third of the actual cases. Because kidnapping victims are often tortured and threatened with death, many victims are hesitant to go to the police.
• The Border Patrol has found that criminal gangs, such as MS-13, are drawn to Arizona because of the predominance of drug trafficking and human smuggling there.
• In 2007, Arizona found that 11% of its prison population was Mexican nationals and 10.5% had ICE detainers.
• 22% of illegal aliens sentenced in Maricopa County in 2007 were convicted of felonies. 10.6% of those sentenced for either murder or manslaughter were illegal aliens, and illegal aliens were found to be responsible for 16.5% of violent crime in the county.
• The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has designated Arizona as a "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area" (HIDTA). Federal agents seized over 1.2 million pounds of marijuana in Arizona in 2009. Arrests have become so common that federal prosecutors in Arizona have routinely declined to press charges against smugglers who are caught with less than 500 pounds of marijuana.

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA):

• Phoenix and Tucson are "major transshipment points for cocaine distribution from Arizona throughout the United States."
• Mexican-produced methamphetamine is frequently smuggled across the Arizona border and distributed across the U.S.
• Mexican "black tar heroin" is the type most often found in Arizona.
  Prescription drugs from Mexico are frequently smuggled into Arizona.

The Government Accountability Office in a 2005 investigation into the criminal records of over 55,000 illegal aliens nationwide revealed:

• An average of 8 arrests and 13 offenses each per individual.
• 45% were arrested for drug or immigration offenses; 15% for property-related offenses such as burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, or property damage; 12% were for murder, robbery, assault, and sex-related crimes. The rest of the total included "such other offenses as traffic violations, including driving under the influence; fraud - including forgery and counterfeiting; weapons violations; and obstruction of justice."