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Who gets hurt? Is Illegal Immigration a victimless crime? Part II
July 29, 7:37 PM
Carl Braun
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Part II of a four part series on illegal immigration, crimes and it's victims.

San Diego, CA---It is clear. Illegal immigration affects the public at large in many ways like crime, health and economics, but what about the illegal immigrants themselves? How are they victims in this victimless crime and is crossing the border a crime anyway? Depends I guess on who you talk to because when it comes to this incendiary topic, the rule of law doesn’t seem to carry much weight.

On April 19, 2009, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was interviewed on CNN about the tactics of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an illegal immigration hardliner. When asked about enforcement she said:


[i]“And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil. But anyway, going after those as well.â€

San Diego Immigration Policy Examiner

Who gets hurt? Is Illegal Immigration a victimless crime? Part III
August 3, 12:17 PM

IIlegal aliens hold a surprising number of US jobs.
(Please go to source link to access "Figure 19" demonstrating this)

This is Part III of a four-part series on the victims of illegal immigration.

San Diego, CA ---In Parts I & II of this series we have established that crossing our borders illegally, is in fact a crime according to US Code Title 8 Section 1325. Additionally, I addressed the issues of illegal immigration crime and its impact on the community, including how immigrant on immigrant crime is violent and often unreported.

How does this crime of crossing our borders illegally affect the economy, the American worker and the taxpayer during good times and bad? Well, during good times the impact is still there, we just do not notice it as much, which is precisely how, given the economic boom over the last seven years or so, the impact has gone somewhat unnoticed and has spiraled out of control. For verification one only need to look at the fiscal condition of California.

As the economy began to seriously falter in 2008, warning bells went off and the impact on the American worker became more and more apparent. In employment for example the competition for jobs across all industries and career fields increased as the number of available jobs declined markedly and the number of layoffs soared.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center there are estimated to be 11.9 million illegal aliens in the United States, 76% of whom are Hispanic and 59% of those are Mexican. Asian illegal immigrants total 11% and those from the Middle East are less than 2%. Central and South America send us the remainder. In 2008 Pew estimated that approximately 8.3% of the workforce on average are Illegal Aliens with California, Arizona and Nevada topping 10% each.

As an occupation, farming leads the pack with 25% of all farm workers illegally in the United States. This however is misleading because as a percentage of the overall illegal population and not just the percentage of farm workers, only about 4% of the total are engaged in farming or agriculture. Ninety–six percent of those working are employed elsewhere. In the construction industry nearly 17.3% are illegal (up from 10.2% in 2003). Building, grounds keeping and maintenance jobs are nearly 1 in 5 held by illegal aliens. Production jobs are 10% and persons illegally in this country even hold 10% of the managerial and technical jobs. The latter, being mostly as a result of overstayed visas and not border fence jumpers.

So much for the argument that illegal aliens are only “doing the jobs Americans won’t do. Fact is in many cases they are “doing the jobs Americans used to do.â€

Who gets hurt? Is Illegal Immigration a victimless crime? Part IV
August 9, 12:40 PM · Carl Braun - San Diego Immigration Policy Examiner

Tai Lam, killed by illegal alien gang bangersThis is the fourth article in a four part series. In the previous three I wrote about illegal alien crime, immigrant on immigrant crime and the impact of illegal immigration on the American worker and taxpayer. This final piece in the series identifies some of the victims of illegal alien murder and drunk driving.

We've all seen the movies. If so and so wasn't in this particular place at this particular time, well, they would still be alive today...and so the story goes. It is inevitable. Life happens and sometimes, bad things happen to good people. It’s just the luck of the draw as they say. It is God’s will. But what if, the bullet that killed Tai Lam wasn’t manufactured? What if the gun that fired the bullet was still a block of steel in a foundry somewhere? What if the man that pulled the trigger wasn’t illegally in this country to begin with? Then what? Would Tai Lam still be alive today? Yeah.

We can argue all day long about guns and gun control but at the end of that day we would have to conclude that the gun and the bullet are inanimate objects that take humans to turn them into deadly weapons. Do cars kill people? They are just as much, if not more a deadly weapon. Yet we do not outlaw cars and inasmuch as some would like to outlaw guns, it would simply mean that only bad people would have them and the good people would be unsuspecting prey.

So in this circular argument we are back to the one thing we can control somewhat and that is the people who drive the cars or pull the trigger. In the case of this young 14-year-old honor student in Montgomery County Maryland, he was guilty of riding a bus. Being at the wrong place at the wrong time, when a 20-year old MS-13 gangbanger and his buddies decided to kill someone. The man, Hector M. Hernandez, an illegal alien from El Salvador and two other gang members, executed Tai while he was on a bus, returning home from an outing with friends. No particular reason. They just wanted to kill something.

Now back to the argument: Suppose Hernandez and his two accomplices weren’t here? They couldn’t get here in fact because our government used as much of it’s nearly limitless resources to ensure its borders were secure and its citizens were protected. What then? Simple. Tai would be preparing for his next wrestling match or the high school dance instead of lying dead in the cemetery, a permanent resident of a County with Sanctuary policies for illegal aliens. Hernandez was in police custody a month earlier for possession of an illegal switchblade but was released when the authorities were prevented by these same sanctuary policies from checking on his immigration status. He was a murder, waiting to happen.

Lily Clark, a legal immigrant from Chile and a vibrant young mother of two had just finished buckling the boys into their car seats preparing for a short ride home on Superbowl Sunday 2008. As she came around the back of her vehicle, a car, driven by a drunk driver, hit her at approximately 35 miles per hour and pinned her between her car and his. Her legs were severed off above the knee and her torso was unceremoniously dumped into her now open trunk. Thanks to quick thinking by her husband John and neighbors she survived, though today a double amputee. Ironically, John Clark is the founder of the NORCAL Minutemen, a group that protests illegal alien presence in this country. This was the fourth drunk driving event for which the driver, Francisco Pacheco, an illegal alien from Mexico, was to be charged. He had been deported three times previously but returned to his old drinking buddies in Napa each time across an open border. He’d been arrested in San Francisco but sanctuary city policies allowed his release. Pacheco got eight years in jail after which he will be deported, just like he was the last three times. Small consultation for Lily and family and a tragic story but unfortunately not the first time an illegal alien drunk driver has taken the limbs from a vibrant young woman. In 2002, serial drunk driver and illegal alien Jose Carcamo hit eighteen-year old Tricia Ann Taylor. She too lost both her legs but survived to live a lifetime of pain. Carcamo had 17 violations beginning in 1995. The Ecuadoran man was demonstrating his ability to drive drunk in a drag race when he hit Taylor and a friend Noah Menard, while they were walking. Noah too survived but with numerous injuries. Though arrested many times Carcamo managed to be released and NOT deported by an INS Agency that obviously wasn’t doing its job.

Every day in America, people who aren’t supposed to be here in the first place kill citizens like Tai Lam or maim people like Clark, Taylor or Menard. America’s Most Forgotten—The Victims of illegal Alien Crime. Whether it’s the Tail Lams or the families of the four children killed in Minnesota when their school bus was hit by a van driven by an illegal alien woman, we, and they are all victims of sanctuary city policies that not only allow but promote illegal alien crimes against citizens.

In a 2006 controversial report issued by Congressman Steve King of Iowa entitled: "Biting The Hand That Feeds Youâ€