As noted in Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Full Swing, in April 2005, the GAO released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following:
Of the 55,322 illegal aliens studied, researchers found that they were arrested a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien.
· They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien.
· 49% had previously been convicted of a felony, 20% of a drug offense; 18% a violent offense, and 11%, other felony offenses.
· 81% of the arrests occurred after 1990
· 56% of those charged with a reentry offense had previously been convicted on at least 5 prior occasions.
· Defendants charged with unlawful reentry had the most extensive criminal histories. 90% had been previously arrested. Of those with a prior arrest, 50% had been arrested for violent or drug-related felonies.
All of these crimes would have never happened, i.e. they were preventable, has we had a serious program of deportation of the illegal aliens already here and proper border security to prevent both entry and re-entry.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
Mexican diplomats realize their hypocrisy (news article)
Mexican envoy hits own policies
By Stephen Dinan and Jerry SeperJuly 20, 2007
Mexico's ambassador to the United States yesterday said previous Mexican officials made a "dumb mistake" by issuing comic books to aid illegal aliens crossing the border, and said his government cannot criticize U.S. treatment of illegal aliens as long as Mexico has harsh laws on its books.
"It's very hard for Mexico to preach to the north what it does not do to the south," Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan said in a meeting with editors and reporters at The Washington Times, referring to Mexico's felony penalties for, and sometimes cruel treatment of, those caught crossing its southern border.
"Unless we correct the fundamental challenge of the violation of human rights of Latin American or Central American migrants crossing the border into Mexico, it's very hard for me to come up and wag a finger and say you guys should protect the rights of my citizens in this country," he said, adding that changes to the Mexican law are now pending.
Mr. Sarukhan, who presented his credentials as ambassador to President Bush in February, said his government is taking a new tack since the December inauguration of President Felipe Calderon, who has toned down the public relations push for an immigration bill in the United States and is instead trying to build infrastructure, combat corruption and create jobs to keep workers at home.
"The debate over immigration is an internal debate of the United States, and as such, I hope, this house noted a dramatic shift in the positioning of the Mexican government as of Dec. 1," Mr. Sarukhan said. "I think the previous Mexican government did itself and those that believe in comprehensive immigration reform a lot of damage by the way it tried to position itself publicly in an internal debate in the United States."
In particular, the ambassador criticized past moves to distribute materials aimed at helping illegal aliens safely cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
In 2005, the Mexican government's foreign ministry distributed 1.5 million comic books giving tips to would-be migrants, and last year Mexico's National Human Rights Commission planned to distribute maps to migrants showing water sites they could use during their crossing. The commission scrapped the plans after a U.S. protest.
"That was not my government, and I would say that in hindsight, or even without hindsight — I was consul general of Mexico in New York at the time these guidelines were delivered — and I saw this and I said, 'What a dumb mistake,' " the ambassador said, adding that the human rights commission was a nongovernmental body.
"I don't think that's the way that you work synergistically with the United States to co-manage a very complex border."
The new approach was apparent when Mr. Bush and Mr. Calderon met in Mexico in March, and the Mexican leader stressed trying to build new economic opportunities in Mexico as well as working with the U.S. to secure the border.
That's not to say Mr. Calderon didn't want Congress to pass Mr. Bush's immigration bill, which would have created a new guest-worker program and given citizenship rights to the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens already here, a majority of whom are Mexicans. Mr. Calderon called the bill's failure a "grave mistake."
But Mr. Sarukhan said Mexican officials understand Americans' trepidation and desire for a secure border, and he said they are well aware of the consequences if a breach of the U.S.-Mexican border were to be involved in a future attack on U.S. security.
(read the rest of the article here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070720/NATION/107200095/1001)
By Stephen Dinan and Jerry SeperJuly 20, 2007
Mexico's ambassador to the United States yesterday said previous Mexican officials made a "dumb mistake" by issuing comic books to aid illegal aliens crossing the border, and said his government cannot criticize U.S. treatment of illegal aliens as long as Mexico has harsh laws on its books.
"It's very hard for Mexico to preach to the north what it does not do to the south," Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan said in a meeting with editors and reporters at The Washington Times, referring to Mexico's felony penalties for, and sometimes cruel treatment of, those caught crossing its southern border.
"Unless we correct the fundamental challenge of the violation of human rights of Latin American or Central American migrants crossing the border into Mexico, it's very hard for me to come up and wag a finger and say you guys should protect the rights of my citizens in this country," he said, adding that changes to the Mexican law are now pending.
Mr. Sarukhan, who presented his credentials as ambassador to President Bush in February, said his government is taking a new tack since the December inauguration of President Felipe Calderon, who has toned down the public relations push for an immigration bill in the United States and is instead trying to build infrastructure, combat corruption and create jobs to keep workers at home.
"The debate over immigration is an internal debate of the United States, and as such, I hope, this house noted a dramatic shift in the positioning of the Mexican government as of Dec. 1," Mr. Sarukhan said. "I think the previous Mexican government did itself and those that believe in comprehensive immigration reform a lot of damage by the way it tried to position itself publicly in an internal debate in the United States."
In particular, the ambassador criticized past moves to distribute materials aimed at helping illegal aliens safely cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
In 2005, the Mexican government's foreign ministry distributed 1.5 million comic books giving tips to would-be migrants, and last year Mexico's National Human Rights Commission planned to distribute maps to migrants showing water sites they could use during their crossing. The commission scrapped the plans after a U.S. protest.
"That was not my government, and I would say that in hindsight, or even without hindsight — I was consul general of Mexico in New York at the time these guidelines were delivered — and I saw this and I said, 'What a dumb mistake,' " the ambassador said, adding that the human rights commission was a nongovernmental body.
"I don't think that's the way that you work synergistically with the United States to co-manage a very complex border."
The new approach was apparent when Mr. Bush and Mr. Calderon met in Mexico in March, and the Mexican leader stressed trying to build new economic opportunities in Mexico as well as working with the U.S. to secure the border.
That's not to say Mr. Calderon didn't want Congress to pass Mr. Bush's immigration bill, which would have created a new guest-worker program and given citizenship rights to the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens already here, a majority of whom are Mexicans. Mr. Calderon called the bill's failure a "grave mistake."
But Mr. Sarukhan said Mexican officials understand Americans' trepidation and desire for a secure border, and he said they are well aware of the consequences if a breach of the U.S.-Mexican border were to be involved in a future attack on U.S. security.
(read the rest of the article here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070720/NATION/107200095/1001)
Monday, July 9, 2007
Tulsa is a time bomb ticking
I have been discussing it here, I have been reading the news articles and I am thoroughly convinced that all of these kettle waiting to explode situations are because our country is not fighting nor protecting us anymore.
When did illegals have more rights than we do? When did our country allow criminal invaders to work here, outplace low-skilled american citizens and then not do anything while they took over our communities, attack us and assault us? I realize now that the fat-cats in the government don't care about the common american anymore. I realize now that some of this is a well orchestrated chess game, but what I don't think anyone realizes is the zeal determination of the American people who refuse to allow their country to be taken over. If you compare Mexico with the US - the people here are quite different, the reason we have succeeded where they have failed is because of who we are at the end of the day.
I really believe that there will be civil wars in a few places, I think some Texas town and possibly Tulsa will be one of the first and we have no one to blame but our government and the cowardly illegals who march out of their country instead of fighting to change it. I am so sick of the racist label being tossed about, no one is racist for fighting against those who do not respect the laws of the land by entering legally. For everyone of those organizations, they could very well be organizing to create better economies in Mexico and South America, tell me why that isn't the number one agenda? The hypocrisy is astounding.
We must come together and take back our country, before many lives our lost and our country destroyed as we know it. Don't think it can't happen, look only at the Fall of Rome, as a reminder...
When did illegals have more rights than we do? When did our country allow criminal invaders to work here, outplace low-skilled american citizens and then not do anything while they took over our communities, attack us and assault us? I realize now that the fat-cats in the government don't care about the common american anymore. I realize now that some of this is a well orchestrated chess game, but what I don't think anyone realizes is the zeal determination of the American people who refuse to allow their country to be taken over. If you compare Mexico with the US - the people here are quite different, the reason we have succeeded where they have failed is because of who we are at the end of the day.
I really believe that there will be civil wars in a few places, I think some Texas town and possibly Tulsa will be one of the first and we have no one to blame but our government and the cowardly illegals who march out of their country instead of fighting to change it. I am so sick of the racist label being tossed about, no one is racist for fighting against those who do not respect the laws of the land by entering legally. For everyone of those organizations, they could very well be organizing to create better economies in Mexico and South America, tell me why that isn't the number one agenda? The hypocrisy is astounding.
We must come together and take back our country, before many lives our lost and our country destroyed as we know it. Don't think it can't happen, look only at the Fall of Rome, as a reminder...
The Revolt Against Illegal Immigration
Victor Davis Hanson,
July 6, 2007
After the utter collapse in the Senate last week of a comprehensive immigration bill, Washington insiders are blaming everyone and everything.
Supposedly, talk-radio hysteria killed the bill. Or was it the purported racism of yokels? Or did most of us fail to appreciate the hidden benefits of open borders so clear only to those in Washington?
In reality, the bill failed because millions of Americans opposed it, believing, among other things, that it provided virtual amnesty to illegal aliens. Through the "Z visa," the bill offered illegal aliens legal worker status -- along with a ticket to eventual citizenship -- after only a precursory background check.
More important, people were skeptical, to say the least, of hundreds of pages of more regulations when the last "comprehensive" immigration legislation, in 1986, either made things worse or was largely unenforced. That's why various polls reveal that most Americans were against the new bill, with less than 25 percent in favor of the Senate version, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll in June.
What causes this grass-roots furor, and where will it lead?
The public thinks anti-terrorism efforts are futile when hundreds of miles on our southern border are, for mysterious reasons, left wide open.
Then there is the American sense of fair play: Thousands of would-be legal immigrants wait in line from all over the world to come to this country. So why the special considerations that seem designed to address the concerns of just one group -- especially when Mexico already supplies the largest number by far of our legal immigrants?
Americans were brought up on lectures about the sanctity of the law. We were supposed to revere the Social Security system. Yet when the government discusses millions of phony Social Security numbers used by illegal aliens, it is usually in the cynical sense of whether that con enriches or bankrupts the system -- not whether such rampant fraud is legally and morally wrong.
Most citizens fret if they leave the house without their driver's license. They get nervous when their car registration or proof of insurance is lost -- and so grow irate that millions of others on the road don't or can't share their concern.
Another public irritant was that the present state-sponsored bilingual documents and ballots along with government interpreters were all never legislated. According to a Susquehanna Polling & Research poll, in February, nearly 70 percent of Americans supported an ordinance in a Pennsylvania town that included making English the sole official language.
Illegal immigration and the efforts to accommodate it have come about from either bureaucratic prerogative -- under pressure from employers and lobbyists -- or court decisions. In contrast, polls, referendums and legislative action all reflect a public desire to reduce illegal immigration and close the borders now. In fact, in a June Rasmussen poll, 70 percent of the public supported an immigration bill that does that -- and only that.
If the American public wants the border closed first, and discussion of everything else later, is that really such a bad thing?
Were the government to enforce laws already passed -- fine employers for hiring illegal aliens, actually build the approved fences, beef up the border patrol, issue verifiable identification -- we would then soon deal with a static population of illegal aliens. And that pool would shrink, not annually grow.
Some of the 12 million here illegally would willingly return home. Some with criminal records could be deported. Some would marry U.S. citizens. Some could be given work visas. Some could apply for earned citizenship. The point is that our formidable powers of assimilation would finally catch up and have time to work on a population that would be at last fixed. As aliens were more readily integrated with the general citizen population, Spanish would evolve into a helpful second, not a single alternate, language. Wages would rise for workers already here -- many of them soon to be Mexican-American citizens -- without competition from a perpetual influx of illegal aliens who work more cheaply.
Mexico would be forced to deal with rather than export its own problems. Billions in earnings would stay in the United States to help our own entry-level and legal immigrants from Mexico, not be sent back as remittances to relatives.
July 6, 2007
After the utter collapse in the Senate last week of a comprehensive immigration bill, Washington insiders are blaming everyone and everything.
Supposedly, talk-radio hysteria killed the bill. Or was it the purported racism of yokels? Or did most of us fail to appreciate the hidden benefits of open borders so clear only to those in Washington?
In reality, the bill failed because millions of Americans opposed it, believing, among other things, that it provided virtual amnesty to illegal aliens. Through the "Z visa," the bill offered illegal aliens legal worker status -- along with a ticket to eventual citizenship -- after only a precursory background check.
More important, people were skeptical, to say the least, of hundreds of pages of more regulations when the last "comprehensive" immigration legislation, in 1986, either made things worse or was largely unenforced. That's why various polls reveal that most Americans were against the new bill, with less than 25 percent in favor of the Senate version, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll in June.
What causes this grass-roots furor, and where will it lead?
The public thinks anti-terrorism efforts are futile when hundreds of miles on our southern border are, for mysterious reasons, left wide open.
Then there is the American sense of fair play: Thousands of would-be legal immigrants wait in line from all over the world to come to this country. So why the special considerations that seem designed to address the concerns of just one group -- especially when Mexico already supplies the largest number by far of our legal immigrants?
Americans were brought up on lectures about the sanctity of the law. We were supposed to revere the Social Security system. Yet when the government discusses millions of phony Social Security numbers used by illegal aliens, it is usually in the cynical sense of whether that con enriches or bankrupts the system -- not whether such rampant fraud is legally and morally wrong.
Most citizens fret if they leave the house without their driver's license. They get nervous when their car registration or proof of insurance is lost -- and so grow irate that millions of others on the road don't or can't share their concern.
Another public irritant was that the present state-sponsored bilingual documents and ballots along with government interpreters were all never legislated. According to a Susquehanna Polling & Research poll, in February, nearly 70 percent of Americans supported an ordinance in a Pennsylvania town that included making English the sole official language.
Illegal immigration and the efforts to accommodate it have come about from either bureaucratic prerogative -- under pressure from employers and lobbyists -- or court decisions. In contrast, polls, referendums and legislative action all reflect a public desire to reduce illegal immigration and close the borders now. In fact, in a June Rasmussen poll, 70 percent of the public supported an immigration bill that does that -- and only that.
If the American public wants the border closed first, and discussion of everything else later, is that really such a bad thing?
Were the government to enforce laws already passed -- fine employers for hiring illegal aliens, actually build the approved fences, beef up the border patrol, issue verifiable identification -- we would then soon deal with a static population of illegal aliens. And that pool would shrink, not annually grow.
Some of the 12 million here illegally would willingly return home. Some with criminal records could be deported. Some would marry U.S. citizens. Some could be given work visas. Some could apply for earned citizenship. The point is that our formidable powers of assimilation would finally catch up and have time to work on a population that would be at last fixed. As aliens were more readily integrated with the general citizen population, Spanish would evolve into a helpful second, not a single alternate, language. Wages would rise for workers already here -- many of them soon to be Mexican-American citizens -- without competition from a perpetual influx of illegal aliens who work more cheaply.
Mexico would be forced to deal with rather than export its own problems. Billions in earnings would stay in the United States to help our own entry-level and legal immigrants from Mexico, not be sent back as remittances to relatives.
Monday, July 2, 2007
It's all a smokescreen
I didn't have much time to write last week, but I was keenly interested - in an almost laughable ironic sense of all the so-called battling for immigration change. I knew, like many that all of this so-called "Immigration Reform" and battlings by Senators will end up doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Was I right or wrong?
No one is enforcing the immigration laws already on the books. The capitalistic fat heads in the government have done nothing but ensure a destruction of the middle class and this country as we know it by allowing so many companies and producers to use illegal immigrants that can pay 3/5th a dollar. These illegal immigrants would not be coming by the millions unless this country allowed them to come here. Whatever band-aid they are proposing, they are not going to stop this "paid slave labor" - so I hope no one anywhere puts validity in this smoke screen arguing.
Illegal immigrants have been hoodwinked and lied to, bamboozled because they have been used and they have become cowards against reform in their own countries. They beautiful American dream they believe they will establish, is being destroyed by their very illegal presence. The more they come here illegally and allow themselves to become enslaved, the more they kill the very economy and beloved social existence they believe is so much greater than what they are running away from. They get a false sense of pride, a false sense of "race", a false sense of "overtaking" and this is where our country will fall.
Unless we as Americans come together, get off our lazy butts, stop having the world and life handed to us, we are going to watch the fall of the US in ways we can't even begin to imagine. That's why I am not motivated by so-called "Immigration Reform" it is all lies to keep us from the truth. The government is no longer for the common person, they do not represent us. They are allowing us to be invaded by illegals and yet they want to somehow make us believe that some vote is going to fix the problem they have allowed to be fester?
The bible story about the "Tower of Babel" is a great analogy.
Wake up, America. Wake up.
Was I right or wrong?
No one is enforcing the immigration laws already on the books. The capitalistic fat heads in the government have done nothing but ensure a destruction of the middle class and this country as we know it by allowing so many companies and producers to use illegal immigrants that can pay 3/5th a dollar. These illegal immigrants would not be coming by the millions unless this country allowed them to come here. Whatever band-aid they are proposing, they are not going to stop this "paid slave labor" - so I hope no one anywhere puts validity in this smoke screen arguing.
Illegal immigrants have been hoodwinked and lied to, bamboozled because they have been used and they have become cowards against reform in their own countries. They beautiful American dream they believe they will establish, is being destroyed by their very illegal presence. The more they come here illegally and allow themselves to become enslaved, the more they kill the very economy and beloved social existence they believe is so much greater than what they are running away from. They get a false sense of pride, a false sense of "race", a false sense of "overtaking" and this is where our country will fall.
Unless we as Americans come together, get off our lazy butts, stop having the world and life handed to us, we are going to watch the fall of the US in ways we can't even begin to imagine. That's why I am not motivated by so-called "Immigration Reform" it is all lies to keep us from the truth. The government is no longer for the common person, they do not represent us. They are allowing us to be invaded by illegals and yet they want to somehow make us believe that some vote is going to fix the problem they have allowed to be fester?
The bible story about the "Tower of Babel" is a great analogy.
Wake up, America. Wake up.
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