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Illegals Creating a Crime Factory in U.S.
E. Ralph Hostetter
Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007
America is permitting a crime factory to operate under its very nose.

This factory has an endless supply of "workers," who slip accross the border illegally, to eke out an existance here in the States. Unfortunately, this existance often turns out to be one of crime, serious crime.

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 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.


You have a friend who will help you if you can reach him.


He is in Denver, Colo., some 700 to 1,000 miles away. 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. More and more, this and other crimes are turning out to be too alluring for illegals to pass up, and law-abiding Americans are paying the price.



In order to illustrate the severity of the illegal immigrant crime wave, the following information is quoted directly from the Government Accounting Office report of April 2005, "Information on Criminal Aliens Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons and Local Jails" (GAO-05-337R).

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 were 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.

It is noteworthy that the 55,322 inmates represent only the criminals who were caught. FBI figures for 2005 reveal that overall, there are many unsolved crimes. By type, they include murder, 37.9 percent; forcible rape, 58.7 percent; robbery 74.6 percent; assault, 44.8 percent; burglary, 87.3 percent; larceny, 82 percent; and motor vehicle theft, an amazing 87 percent.

The foregoing figures indicate that a far greater number of illegal alien criminals escape apprehension and conviction by a ratio of 3-to-1.

Add to this the street gangs and mafia in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York composed of aliens, many illegal, from Mexico, Haiti, and China to name a few countries, that are presently taking over entire sections of American cities.

As an example, Pacific Research Institute reports the 18th Street Gang in southern California is one of the nation's most violent street gangs, with a staggering 20,000 members. More appalling is the fact that 60 percent of the 18th Street Gang's membership consists of illegal aliens.

The gang's crimes range from armed robbery to arson to murder. The gang in one seven-year period was responsible for 100 homicides. The Los Angeles Times notes, " Wherever the 18th Street Gang surfaces, the quality of life inevitably suffers. Law enforcement admits it is losing the battle against the gang."

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


The United States had experienced a remarkable decrease in crime up to the present time. As an example, big city murder rates, along with other violent crimes, had decreased dramatically since 1990.

San Diego experienced 167 murders in 1991 and 42 murders in 1998, a reduction of some 76 percent. New York experienced 2,154 murders in 1991 and 633 in 1998, a decrease of 71 percent.

Los Angeles experienced 1,027 murders in 1991 and 426 in 1998, a decrease of 59 percent. 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 blackout of the news regarding the growth of this enormous crime problem in America.


The dominant media must direct its massive influence over an ill-informed American public, to expose the many threats that illegal immigration and crime presents to the U.S. citizenry today, instead of ignoring or, worse yet, working against the best interests of your fellow Americans.

Ralph Hostetter, a prominent businessman and agricultural publisher, also is a national and local award-winning columnist. He welcomes e-mail comments at eralphhostetter@yahoo.com.


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