Thread: Border crime statistics don’t tell the real story

Border crime statistics don’t tell the real story
by Hugh Holub on Jul. 20, 2011, under immigration law reform, politics

Lately there have been a lot of stories about how much the crime rates along the border have declined.

What this is supposed to mean is—

US efforts to stop the flow of illegal immigration and drug smuggling are working;

–it is time to pass immigration law reform; and

– and it is safe to go to Nogales and shop.

Rural area residents are not buying the argument that the border is secure.

All that has happened is the drug smugglers and illegal aliens have been pushed away from border cities out onto federally-managed lands like the Coronado National Forest and Pajarita Wilderness Area.

But what is missing from the statistics is the Hispanic against Hispanic element of crime associated with illegal entry and drug smuggling.

Low crime rate stats for the border have one major problem…unreported crimes against illegal aliens

Illegal immigrants are routinely attacked by border bandits and robbed and raped in our borderlands.

These crimes are not shown in the official statistics because most of the victims don’t bother to report them…because they would be deported if they did. And the victims who do come forward get deported and the criminals continue their crime wave in the borderlands.

It is important to remember that Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and his Bortac unit were hunting the border bandits in Peck Canyon…trying to protect the lives of the illegal immigrants…when he was shot by an Hispanic border bandit.

Then there are in the infamous “drop housesâ€

Low crime rate stats for the border have one major problem…unreported crimes against illegal aliens
by Hugh Holub on Jul. 15, 2011, under politics

USA Today has a story out Border crime stats don’t support mayhem rhetoric

There is just one nasty little problem with claiming the border is safe based on crime stats.

Crimes perpetrated on illegal aliens by other illegal aliens and even American citizens are largely unreported in the state.

There has been a crime wave in Santa Cruz County by border bandits attacking and robbing illegal immigrants. There are even incidents where the bandits attack drug smugglers.

Invariably the victims of these crimes are turned over to the Border Patrol and deported. No victims, no witnesses, no prosecutions.

News account are very similar…the victims don’t know where the attack occured, they wouldn’t be able to identify the criminal….so what do you do?

I have a call into Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada, who is quoted in the USA Today article…wanting to know if the incidents where illegal aliens turn themselves in to the Border Patrol report being raped or robbed… the Border Patrol calls the county to interview the victims….and then Border Patrol deports the victims…are these crime reports even counted in Santa Cruz County?

With the probability that a crime victim…if they are illegal…will be deported if they call the cops…what is the incentive to even report a crime? They don’t.

All the crime stats cited by USA Today show is that urban residents in border cities aren’t experiencing much crime tied to illegal entry or drug smuggling. It is safe to go shopping in Nogales.

All the criminal stuff is going on out in the countryside….and the nasty stuff happening to illegal aliens at the hands of border bandits…. is not “officialâ€