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Thread ID: 11883 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-01-13
2004-01-13 18:31 | User Profile
[url]http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html[/url]
... I asked the Miami Police Departmentââ¬â¢s spokesman ... about his employerââ¬â¢s policy on lawbreaking illegals. In September, the force arrested a Honduran visa violator for seven vicious rapes. The previous year, Miami cops had had the suspect in custody for lewd and lascivious molestation, without checking his immigration status. Had they done so, they would have discovered his visa overstay, a deportable offense, and so could have forestalled the rapes. ... In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens. ... A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico. ... The ordinarily tough-as-nails former LAPD chief Daryl Gates enacted Special Order 40 in 1979ââ¬âshowing that even the most unapologetic law-and-order cop is no match for immigration advocates. The order prohibits officers from ââ¬Åinitiating police action where the objective is to discover the alien status of a personââ¬Âââ¬âin other words, the police may not even ask someone they have arrested about his immigration status until after they have filed criminal charges, nor may they arrest someone for immigration violations. They may not notify immigration authorities about an illegal alien picked up for minor violations. ... Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the cityââ¬â¢s sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS...New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicansââ¬âfour of them illegalââ¬âabducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. ... John Mullaly a former NYPD homicide detective, estimates that 70 percent of the drug dealers and other criminals in Manhattanââ¬â¢s Washington Heights were illegal. Were Mullaly to threaten an illegal-alien thug in custody that his next stop would be El Salvador unless he cooperated, the criminal would just laugh, knowing that the INS would never show up. ... JoaquÃÂn Avila, a UCLA Chicano studies professor and law lecturer, argues that to deny non-citizens the vote, especially in the many California cities where they constitute the majority, is a form of apartheid. ...