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Still think illegal immigration is a "victimless crime" and we don't need to control our borders? Remember, about 60% of the crimes being committed are by illegal aliens who were previously deported.
•In Los Angeles, 95% of some 1,500 outstanding warrants for homicides are for illegal aliens. About 67% of the 17,000 outstanding fugitive felony warrants are for illegal aliens.
•There are currently over 400,000 unaccounted for illegal alien criminals with outstanding deportation orders. At least one fourth of these are hard core criminals.
•80,000 to 100,000 illegal aliens who have been convicted of serious crimes are walking the streets. Based on studies they will commit an average of 13 serious crimes per perpetrator.
•Illegal aliens are involved in criminal activities at a rate that is 2-5 times their representative proportion of the population.
•In 1980, our Federal and state facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens but at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities at a cost of about $6.8 billion per year.
•At least 4.5 million pounds of coc aine with a street value of at least $72 billion is smuggled across the southern border every year. ..
•56% of illegal aliens charged with a reentry offense had previously been convicted on at least 5 prior occasions.
•Illegal aliens 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.
•Illegal aliens commit between 700,000 to 1,289,000 or more crimes per year.
•Illegal aliens commit at least 2,158 murders each year – a number that represents three times greater participation than their proportion of the population.
•Illegal alien sexual predators commit an estimated 130,909 sexual crimes each year.
•There may be as many as 240,000 illegal alien sex offenders circulating throughout America. Based on studies, they will commit an average of 8 sex crimes per perpetrator before being caught.
•Nearly 63% of illegal alien sex offenders had been deported on another offense prior to committing the sex crime.
•Only 2% of the illegal alien sex offenders in one study had no history of criminal behavior, beyond crossing the border illegally.
•In Operation Predator, ICE arrested and deported 6,085 illegal alien pedophiles. Some studies suggest each pedophile molests average of 148 children. If so, that could be as many as 900,580 victims.
•Nobody knows how big the Sex Slave problem is but it is enormous.
•The very brutal MS-13 gang has over 15,000 members and associates in at least 115 different cliques in 33 states.
•The overall financial impact of illegal alien crimes is estimated at between $14.4 and $81 billion or more per year. Factor in the crime as a result of the coc aine and other drugs being smuggled in and the number may reach $150 billion per year.
originally posted by: Night Star
originally posted by: Onslaught2996
originally posted by: Night Star
The crimes of an illegal, a person who never would have been here had they not come illegally, is preventable. If they were still in their own Country, the citizen would still be alive.
How do you know this for a fact? You know for a fact that someone else would not have come along and killed them?
I don't. Crime is about opportunity....who is to say that an American born criminal would not have taken the opportunity to do the exact same thing to the same individual. Time and place.
You're telling me that in every single case out of thousands of illegals not attacking a citizen, it would instead have been done by a citizen?
originally posted by: Onslaught2996
originally posted by: Night Star
originally posted by: Onslaught2996
originally posted by: Night Star
The crimes of an illegal, a person who never would have been here had they not come illegally, is preventable. If they were still in their own Country, the citizen would still be alive.
How do you know this for a fact? You know for a fact that someone else would not have come along and killed them?
I don't. Crime is about opportunity....who is to say that an American born criminal would not have taken the opportunity to do the exact same thing to the same individual. Time and place.
You're telling me that in every single case out of thousands of illegals not attacking a citizen, it would instead have been done by a citizen?
No I am saying neither you or I can say for fact what would have happened to this victim. I can't say that if an illegal is not allowed here to commit the crime...the victim would never have been in danger.
So how can I you say this?
originally posted by: Night Star
You guys just don't get it so I'll agree to disagree.
The problem of crime in the United States is not caused or even aggravated by immigrants, regardless of their legal status. This is hardly surprising since immigrants come to the United States to pursue economic and educational opportunities not available in their home countries and to build better lives for themselves and their families. As a result, they have little to gain and much to lose by breaking the law. Undocumented immigrants in particular have even more reason to not run afoul of the law given the risk of deportation that their lack of legal status entails. Public policies must be based on facts, not anecdotes or emotions. And the fact is that the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.
there is little empirical evidence that immigrants—legal or illegal— commit more crime than natives (apart from immigration-related offenses which we are not considering here). Hence, the latter two reasons are the basis for the correlation we expect to find between illegal immigration and crime in this paper. It is widely known that immigrants are both more likely to be victimized by crime and less likely to report crime. The former suggests that immigrants are more vulnerable, while the latter suggests why that might be the case.
Currently the federal government is spending around $2 billion a year keeping around 50% of the 400,000 illegal immigrants in prison housed in private prison facilities. The federal government has also stated that making use of these private prisons to house these illegals isn’t necessarily a cheaper option, although that is one of the biggest reasons why these prison facilities were privatized.
In an effort to determine how much these private prisons were costing the taxpayers, the Associated Press calculated the cost of these private prisons, and also added in the amount they spent on donations to political candidates and for lobbying Congress. The financial reports they reviewed went back more than 10 years through both the feds and the state records.
This study showed evidence that there was a relationship between the individuals who create policies on immigration and several of those big prison corporations. While there was nothing apparently illegal about these relationships, it was found that many of these big prison corporations were struggling to stay above water before Congress passed some of the stricter immigration laws pertaining to detention of these immigrants.
It’s easy to see how the federal money has been going to three of the largest of these campaign contributing companies due to the fact that only a decade ago there were only about 10% of prison beds within the private sector, but now the private sector holds about 50% of those beds. These beds are held in majority by GEO group, Corrections Corp. of America, and Management and Training.
As far as can be seen, there is going to be a continuation of growth regardless of the fact that the numbers of illegal immigrants coming into the nation has been on the decline.
If you look at the records, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), was almost bankrupt in 2000 do to a number of lawsuits brought against it, a reduction in contracts, and problems with internal management. This is a striking contrast to the revenue they received last year, which was in the amount of $162 million in net profit.
Critics note that studies such as those mentioned above rarely distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants. Reliable data that separates the two groups is hard to find, but Indiana University economist Eric Rasmusen has culled figures from a 2005 GAO report on foreigners incarcerated in Federal and state prisons to calculate that illegal immigrants commit 21% of all crime in the United States, costing the country more than $84 billion. Rasmusen contends the distinction is important because immigrants with a green card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including a background check into any prior criminal record back home. "Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding," Rasmusen wrote last June. But Professor Daniel Mears, a Florida State University criminologist, argues that such reasoning can also be turned on its head. "If someone is here illegally," Mears asks, "why would they call attention to themselves by committing a crime?"
Steven Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tighter immigration controls, warns that even if immigrants are less likely to commit crimes, their children and grandchildren may be more likely to end up on the wrong side of the law. He points out that U.S. Department of Justice statistics show that Hispanics make up 20% of state and Federal prison populations in 2005, a rise of 43% since 1990. At that rate, one in every six Hispanic males born in the U.S. today can expect to be imprisoned during his lifetime — more than double the rate for non-Hispanic whites, but lower than that of African-Americans of the same age. "That means the children and grandchildren of immigrants are committing a lot of crime, making this a long-term problem," Camarota says, before adding, "That's much worse news."
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: theantediluvian
Prove it that my source is a hoax and that Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House Subcommittee on immigration, Border, Security and Claims never happen and is a hoax
I don't play games, I bring real facts and statistics.
Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House Subcommittee on immigration, Border, Security
In recent Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House Subcommittee on immigration, Border, Security and Claims he stated:
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: theantediluvian
Hmmm.
Seems PolitiFact (ultra-Left Wing) may have missed a few things.
That chart seems to tell a worse story eh.
I say the Governor may be accurate after all.