Illegal immigrants: An American crime machine

Consider this.
You are an illegal alien who has successfully avoided the Border Patrol on the U.S.-Mexican border and you’re headed north.
Your possessions include the shirt on your back and perhaps a few pesos. If you’re lucky, you have a few dollars. You have a friend who will help you if you can reach him. Say, for example, he is in Denver, Colo., some 700 to 1,000 miles away, depending on where you crossed the border.
You can’t speak English.
Your friends in Mexico, some of whom have been deported from the United States, perhaps more than once, tell you that employers are ever more skeptical about hiring illegals. Some employers are being prosecuted; their employees deported.
How do you feed and clothe yourself?
Denver, if you crossed the border in the winter, is much colder than Matamoros, Mexico.
You see police everywhere. Keeping in hiding and traveling at the same time makes for slow progress.
Where are the resources to sustain you?
Chances are very good that you have to turn to the resource of last resort — crime.
In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the hungry hobo would steal a chicken.
The convenience store today is much more attractive and the selections are better, including the best bounty of all — cash.
America is permitting a crime factory to operate under its very nose.
In order to illustrate the severity of the illegal immigrant crime wave, the following information is quoted directly from the Government Accounting Office report of April 2005, “Information on Criminal Aliens Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons and Local Jails” (GAO-05-337R).
Objectives: To identify a population of aliens incarcerated in federal and state prisons during Fiscal Year 2003.
The GAO study involved a population of 55,322 illegal aliens.
They were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about eight arrests per illegal alien.
Ninety-seven percent had more than one arrest.
Thirty-eight percent had two to five arrests; 32 percent had between six and 10 arrests and 26 percent had more than 11 arrests.
Eighty-one percent of all arrests occurred after 1990.
The study group of 55,322 prisoners were arrested for a total of nearly 700,000 criminal offenses, average 13 each.
About 46 percent were for drug and immigration offenses; about 15 percent for property-related offenses — burglary, motor vehicle larceny and property damage; and 12 percent were for murder, armed robbery, assault and sexually related crimes.
The balance were: fraud, including forgery and counterfeiting; weapons violations; obstruction of justice, and DUI charges. Eighty percent of all arrests occurred in three of the states bordering Mexico: California, Texas and Arizona.
It is noteworthy that the 55,322 inmates represent only the criminals who were caught.
FBI figures for 2005 reveal that overall, there are many unsolved crimes.
By type, they include: murder, 37.9 percent; forcible rape, 58.7 percent; robbery 74.6 percent; assault, 44.8 percent; burglary, 87.3 percent; larceny, 82 percent; and motor vehicle theft, an amazing 87 percent.
The foregoing figures indicate that a far greater number of illegal alien criminals escape apprehension and conviction by a ratio of three to one.
 Add to this the street gangs and mafia in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York composed of aliens, many illegal, from Mexico, Haiti and China to name a few countries, that are presently taking over entire sections of American cities.
As an example, Pacific Research Institute reports the 18th Street gang in southern California is one of the nation’s most violent street gangs, with a staggering 20,000 members.
More appalling is the fact that 60 percent of the 18th Street gang’s membership consists of illegal aliens.
The gang’s crimes range from armed robbery to arson to murder. The gang in one seven-year period was responsible for 100 homicides. The Los Angeles Times notes, “Wherever the 18th Street gang surfaces, the quality of life inevitably suffers. Law enforcement admits it is losing the battle against the gang.”
On Jan. 23, 700 illegal aliens were rounded up in Los Angeles. Offenses committed ranged from murder to larceny.
The United States had experienced a remarkable decrease in crime up to the present time.
As an example, big city murder rates, along with other violent crimes, had decreased dramatically since 1990.
San Diego experienced 167 murders in 1991 and 42 murders in 1998, a reduction of some 76 percent. New York experienced 2,154 murders in 1991 and 633 in 1998, a decrease of 71 percent. Los Angeles experienced 1,027 murders in 1991 and 426 in 1998, a decrease of 59 percent.
There is little doubt that the criminal activities of the ever-growing population of illegal aliens could turn the crime figures upward again.
This criminal activity will continue until it gets totally beyond control.
A good part of this problem may be laid at the feet of the dominant media, which has taken upon itself a near blackout of the news regarding the growth of this enormous crime problem in America.
The dominant media must direct its massive influence over an ill-informed American public, to expose the many threats that illegal immigration and crime presents to the U.S. citizenry today, instead of ignoring or, worse yet, working against the best interests of your fellow Americans.
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