Letter: Killings by illegal immigrants are 'completely avoidable tragedies'

Letter: Killings by illegal immigrants are 'completely avoidable tragedies'


September 3, 2018


NO...it doesn’t matter what the crime rate is for "immigrants," contrary to the attempt by your USA Today columnist to allay the concerns of US citizens. Using the common liberal apologists’ false conflation of legal immigrants and illegal aliens, and the euphemism "undocumented immigrants" to describe lawbreaking aliens, he tries to reassure us that their incarceration rate is only .5 percent.

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Of course, to reach this number, he has to eliminate those incarcerated only for immigration violations. The fact that these are crimes seems not to impress him. But why stop there? He could improve his numbers even more by eliminating those incarcerated for theft, rape, or murder!

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All this after he has admitted the near impossibility of even determining how many crimes are committed by legal, illegal, or native-born citizens. The author is honest enough to quote Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies that this doesn’t matter to the parents of Kate Steinle.
But he still continues his attempt to diminish this fact:

Regardless of the actual crime rate, there are illegal aliens stealing, raping, and murdering, none of which would have occurred had they not sneaked in illegally. Kate Steinle, Mollie Tibbetts, and many others would still be alive. These were completely avoidable tragedies, had we closed our borders.


The same goes for those tortured and murdered by MS-13 illegal aliens, despite the author’s final six paragraphs decrying President Trump’s frequent reminder of that unalienable fact.



Wade Ramsey
Greenville



https://www.greenvilleonline.com/sto...le/1133890002/

These murders are the greatest tragedies of illegal immigration, but we all need to remember, that illegal immigration is a scourge on our society, economy, jobs, budgets and lives even without violent crime. It's not just the criminals and killers we want out of here, it's all of them, because they are all breaking our immigration laws, laws that are just with valid purpose to protect our citizens, money, jobs, businesses, resources, benefits and elections.

Agree absolutely, Judy. It's the garden variety illegal aliens who are hurting the country so much. The ones overtaking our trade industries, driving up our healthcare costs, overcrowding our schools, using our welfare dollars , stealing our social security numbers, giving birth to anchor kids who will legally vote in our elections, and then overtaking our communities, who are the greatest danger. Going after "the criminals" will never be enough.