America’s new crime machine

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

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.

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.

To illustrate the severity of the illegal immigrant crime wave, the following information is quoted directly from the Government Accountability Office report of April 2005, “Information on Criminal Aliens Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons and Local Jails.”

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 was 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.

On Jan. 23 in Los Angeles, 700 illegal aliens were rounded up. Offenses committed ranged from murder to larceny.

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 black-out of the news regarding the growth of this enormous crime problem in America.

The dominant media must expose the many threats that illegal immigration and crime presents to the U.S. citizenry today.