It is calculated that in 1492, when Christopher Columbus came America, 70 million people lived in Europe.

In Portugal and Spain together there were 10 million inhabitants on the British Isles there were barely 5 million.

By contrast, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean - here on the American continent - there were 110 million human beings, 10 million of those, north of the Rio Grande.

It is calculated that 130 years later, alter the arrival of the first undocumented European immigrants that 95% of the Native American population had disappeared.

(H. F. Dobyns, American researcher)

We Immigrants come in all colors and flavors and from all Nations.

We come and go.

We do hard jobs and are paid little.

Look around you. All are "Juan Aliens": who one day arrived - poor and persecuted - from Ireland, Germany, Italy, England, Russia, Poland….and - as in my case - from San Toribio of Chinche.

I work hard and have very little fun.

Everyday I have to juggle, improvising in the attempt to survive in an atmosphere of increasing intolerance.

I have to work three jobs in order to support my family here and two old maid aunts over there, amen to the fact that I pay taxes on both sides of the border and to top it all off, I am in charge of the foreign debt.

All through history, humanity has permanently moved around the World.

During the last year (2006) 191 million people have crossed international borders.

Today, more than 150 million people are migrating around the World. The United States received less than 2% of these immigrants annually.

This is not a new phenomenon. During the colonial age, the migration from nations more developed to those less developed was constant.

In the ten year period from 1901 to 1911, an average of 90,000 Englishmen migrated from Great Britain to the colonies every year.