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Thread ID: 19008 | Posts: 14 | Started: 2005-07-07
2005-07-07 00:56 | User Profile
[url]http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/050630_nd.htm[/url]
[B]Criminal Alien Nation[/B]
Criminal aliens—non-citizens convicted of crimes—are a growing threat.
In 1980, our Federal and state facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 non-citizens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities, as follows
*46,000 in Federal prisons
*74,000 in state prisons
*147,000 in local jails
[Table 1]
Approximately 27 percent of all prisoners in Federal custody are criminal aliens. The majority (63 percent) are citizens of Mexico. Other major nationalities include Columbia and the Dominican Republic (7 percent each); Jamaica 4 percent; Cuba 3 percent; El Salvador 2 percent; and Honduras, Haiti, and Guatemala (1 percent each).
The remaining 11 percent are from are 164 different countries. Diversity is strength!
The Federal government spent $1.43 billion to incarcerate criminal aliens in fiscal 2004. This total includes $280 million of reimbursements made to state and local governments under the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program [SCAAP]. But SCAAP funds cover less than 25 percent of the full cost of incarcerating criminal aliens in state and local correctional facilities, according to the GAO.
Still, the public costs of incarcerating aliens are trivial alongside the private costs they impose on their victims. The GAO recently analyzed the rap sheets of more than 55,000 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003.[Source: General Accountability Office, "Information on Certain Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States," Letter to Congressman John N. Hostettler, May 9, 2005.]
It found:
*The average criminal alien was arrested for 13 prior offenses
*12 percent were for murder, robbery, assault and sexually related crimes
*Only 21 percent were immigration offenses; the rest were felonies
*81 percent of their arrests occurred after 1990
In a word, criminal aliens are not your casual law breaker. Most are recidivists—AKA career criminals. The economic burden they impose on victims, including loss of income and property, uncompensated hospital bills, and emotional pain and suffering – has been estimated at $1.6 million per property and assault crime offender. [Source: Anne Morrison Piehl and John J. DiLulio, "Does prison pay?"]
So the benefits of incarcerating criminal aliens far outweigh the costs.
Better yet: Deport them! In fact about 40,000 aliens are deported annually after serving time for murder, assault, robbery, drug possession, and other criminal offenses. [Table 2.] But they regularly make their way back to the United States, where "sanctuary policies" often prohibit police from reporting them to immigration authorities. Many stay here decades after getting their deportation orders.
Nationally an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes still walk the streets. For them, crime pays.
Last happy thought: these numbers underestimate the impact of immigration on crime.
*Criminal aliens for whom states and localities are not reimbursed under the SCAAP program are not included.
*Criminal aliens who have become citizens are not included.
*The U.S. born children of immigrants are not included
[I]Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis[/I]
2005-07-07 02:21 | User Profile
No "criminal" alien can become a citizen, specially now that the home security is in charge of the proceedings in order for aliens to become US citizen.
2005-07-07 03:39 | User Profile
And you have to say it's partially our Governments fault also. Our Government lets these people in who have no respect for America and they try to run all over it. Send them back where they came, and I bet people won't be so "tolerant" of their crimes.
2005-07-07 04:56 | User Profile
Well if someone is here illegally they are a criminal.
2005-07-07 16:02 | User Profile
[QUOTE]No "criminal" alien can become a citizen, specially now that the home security is in charge of the proceedings in order for aliens to become US citizen.[/QUOTE]
Quite true. Until the next amnesty that is, then once covered by that blanket they are free to terrorize at will without consequences.
Hell tens of thousands of illegal alien pedophiles, rapists, murders, and worse are currently KNOWN to be running loose in the US, and the imperial Fed does nothing about it.
Should they be ID'd, typically by State authorities, and be in danger of actually being picked up, they just scoot across the border and its ALLY ALLY ALL IN FREE.
2005-07-07 18:45 | User Profile
Illegal alien Third Worlders:
[QUOTE]*81 percent of their arrests occurred after 1990 [/QUOTE]
I typically state to people that the quality of life in America has drastically changed for the worse over the last, say, 20 years. The stat above pretty much reinforces my belief.
2005-07-16 03:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=BlueBonnet]Well if someone is here illegally they are a criminal.[/QUOTE]
I agree with you, but they dance around the question by claiming this is their country, or at least used to be. I would further state, the problem is not illegals as much as those who employ and protect them. If we started throwing businessmen in jail for hiring these people, then maybe there would be little demand for them.
2005-07-16 03:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]Illegal alien Third Worlders:
I typically state to people that the quality of life in America has drastically changed for the worse over the last, say, 20 years. The stat above pretty much reinforces my belief.[/QUOTE] Our reduced quality of life still is, for the most part, better than the life in Mexico. I don't need stats to see the quality of life in LA, and in the schools, has deteriorated. The rest of the country has yet to feel the negative impact of the illegal. If you haven't seen Lou Dobbs on CNN then I would recommend it. Yesterday, he had a writer who claimed illegals were good for the country, and good for business. In the course of the interview, this man claimed there were between 11 million and twenty million illegals in this country.
2005-07-22 07:37 | User Profile
this is where libertarianism leads.
2005-08-01 18:19 | User Profile
[url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080100604_pf.html"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080100604_pf.html[/url]
[size=+2]Feds Make More Than 500 Gang Arrests[/size] [size=-1]By LARA JAKES JORDAN The Associated Press Monday, August 1, 2005; 12:08 PM [/size]
WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities arrested 582 alleged gang members over a two-week period, officials said Monday, targeting an estimated 80 violent groups they say have spawned street crimes across the country.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called the gangs "a threat to our homeland security and ... a very urgent law enforcement priority."
Investigators picked up most of the offenders between July 16 and July 28 on immigration violations for being in the United States illegally. Seventy-six face criminal charges, ranging from illegal possession of a firearm to holding fraudulent documents.
"For too long, these gangs have gone unchecked _ flouting all laws and demonstrating a blatant disregard for public safety," Chertoff said in announcing the arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. ICE is an arm of the Homeland Security Department.
Investigators targeted members in 27 states of what they considered to be the most violent street gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; Surenos; the 18th Street Gang; Latin Kings; the Mexican Mafia; Border Brothers; Brown Pride and numerous others.
Many of the arrests came in large urban areas, including 61 in Boston, 28 in Denver, and 23 each in Los Angeles and Detroit. But even smaller cities have been infiltrated by the gangs, the arrests showed, including 42 in Birmingham, Ala., and one each in Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; and North Platte, Neb.
The crackdown is part of ICE's ongoing "Operation Community Shield" campaign, targeting gang activity with other federal and state authorities. So far, ICE has made 1,057 arrests as part of the sting.
More than half of them have been members of MS-13, a street gang rooted in Central America where members have been known to behead enemies and attack with grenades and machetes. Federal officials estimate between 8,000 and 10,000 MS-13 members live in 31 states _ the majority of them in the country illegally.
"We're just getting started," said ICE investigations chief Marcy Forman.
On the Net:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement: [url="http://www.ice.gov/graphics/index.htm"]http://www.ice.gov/graphics/index.htm[/url]
2005-08-01 19:13 | User Profile
It is all so depressing. Is there any hope out there ?
2005-08-01 20:10 | User Profile
How to become a gang member.....be about 14-23 years old, have no familie in the US, come across with only a dream and no money, live in the street and be hungry all the time....... get an offer of a meal from a fellow Mexican and the invitation to stay over at their "club" for a while.
Do them the "favor" of taking a small package from point A to point B by taking public transportation number 20, return back to your club 2 hours later and then they will give you $200.00......and you are hook.
Now you can buy your own food and feel some respect from others, you are now somebody and the next step will be to be able to rent your own apartment and then to get your own car followed by getting your own girl.
You then "help" a 16 year old kid who just came in yesterday by giving him a free meal......and the cycle starts all over again. :pimp: hey bro.
2005-08-18 00:26 | User Profile
[QUOTE]is all so depressing. Is there any hope out there ?[/QUOTE]Dum spiro spero.
2005-08-18 04:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=ewald steiner]It is all so depressing. Is there any hope out there ?[/QUOTE][font=Times New Roman][size=3]
None at all that I can see and I am looking everywhere (and what does that mean in Latin?). I wanted to leave CA and move to TN to escape the brown tide until a friend in TN told me the state is saturated with beaners as badly as this dump is.
It's sad because I want **the hell out of here**. [/size][/font]:frown: