The Connection between Illegal Immigration and Organized Crime
Bruce Martin, MPP

This article is written as I return from an annual ethnic religious festival held in Carthage, Missouri. (The event, known as Marian Days, is the same one that involved a fatal crash of a busload of Vietnamese parishioners who were en route there as well.)

Law enforcement officers have learned that ethnic celebrations such as Marian Days are good times to make observations regarding crime and cross cultural trends, as well as identifying “who knows who.â€