What goes unreported is the staggering death toll of the other war that is going on and is largely ignored by the mainstream media and our politicians, who when they speak of it, mention it as a political issue and ignore the mounting body count.
In Iraq and Afghanistan since the start of hostilities, 3115 Americans have lost their lives. The deaths in our other war rarely make the TV news, occasionally they will get a paragraph or two buried in local papers. The death toll since the start of hostilities in Afghanistan in this war now stands at approximately 20,000. I say approximately, because unbelievably no government agency keeps accurate records on it. The numbers that are available have been compiled by Rep. Steven R. King of Iowa.
By now I'm sure many of you are wondering what the hell I'm talking about. The dead I'm talking about are Americans, every one of them killed in the United States by foreign invaders. According to statiistics compiled by ESR (Economic Research Consultants) and arrived by data collected from prisons, news reports and independent research 12 Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens. Since 1980 the prison population of illegal aliens has risen from 9,000 to 267,000 in 2003
According to report released by the GAO in 2005, a study done in 2003,
of 55,322 illegal aliens that were in state or federal prisons at that time;
Cumulatively had 459,614 arrests or 8 per inmate.
700,000 offenses or 13 per inmate
36% had been arrested at least 5 times.
A report by Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute revealed that there are 240,000 illegal aliens who are convicted sex offenders and have an average of 4 vistims each, or almost 1,000,000 victims os sexual assault, rape etc by illegal aliens. On average 2920 CHILDREN are sexually molested each year in the US by illegal aliens, that comes out to 8 per day.
I wonder why we don't hear the same heartfelt emotional outcry to do something about this needless murdering of our "civilian" citizens"? Why do we not hear a running total of dead at the hands of "undocumented visitors"? It seems that many of the same people who are so firm in the belief that our soldiers are the victims of a war that was started under false pretenses, are so silent about this travesty. Is this issue ignored because it is politically incorrect to point out that illegal aliens represent a disproportionately large number of violent crime perpetrators? Are not each every victim of these crimes just as worthy of protection as our soldiers, who at least know they are in a war zone, and aren't being murdered on their way home from the movies, or in their homes while they sleep?
Unbelievably, not only is there no groundswell to stop this influx of criminality, many of the same who passionately oppose our war in Iraq, are equally passionate proponents of amnesty for illegal aliens and open borders.
Peter Wagner, author of the report "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration" perhaps says it best,
"....while the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent hard working people, trying to make a better life for themselves and their familes...it is fact that a disproportionately high percentage of them are criminals and sexual predators. When we allow the good in, we get the bad along with them.......How much bad is acceptable and at what price?"
In other words how many kids are we willing to get raped and molested, that would not be if that border was shut down and immigration was controlled? How many neighbors and relatives are we willing to bury in the name of open borders? Technically all of those numbers are wrong about how many of them are criminals. The second their foot crosses that border without passing customs, every one of them is legally a felon. Is it really so unreasonable to want our border to only be crossed at places and by people of our choosing? Is it wrong to want to make sure that someone crossing that border is not a fugitive in Mexico or a sexual predator? There is not another country anywhere in the world that does not control in some way or another entry into their land. In many countries illegal border crossers are met with lethal force. Do we not have the right as a sovereign nation to control who enters our country and avails themselves of our resources? Has America become the storm drain for the flotsam of every country in North and Central America? The fox is not just in the henhouse, but the chickens have given him the keys and are courteous enough to clean up the feathers he leaves behind.
If the Mexican government will not work with us to stop this exodus, (latest estimates put the total number of illegal aliens at somewhere between 18-20 MILLION), then we need to to take action against the government of Mexico to make them reconsider. We should start by banning all travel to any destination in Mexico, unless or until some working agreement is reached. No more Friday nights in Tijuana. No more spring Break in Cancun. American tourist dollars are a very large part of Mexico's economy, and just the threat of that is very likely to bring them to the table and talk. Next we need a wall. A BIG wall. Why not get the labor from the prison system? Take the illegals currently residing in the prison system and put them to work building a wall along the border. Pay them a stipend after they complete a predetermined period of labor and then toss them over the wall they just built. If they won't work add 10 years to their sentence.
We have to do something. This isn't about immigration. This is about protecting our citizens from predators who have no business being here in the first place. If this wall had been built 5 1/2 years ago there would 21,000 more Americans alive today and almost 1,000,000 fewer victims of sex crimes. Is making someone enter through a controlled checkpoint just to big a burden to place on someone in order to try to stop this from happening?
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One of the locals told us that if one of them were to get drunk and cause a commotion the polica would throw them in jail. If one of us were to do the same thing, the polica would give us a ride to our hotel room.
I also heard the exchange between O'Reilly and Rivera the other day. Rivera couldn't accept the fact that someone being killed by an illegal alien driving drunk was an immigration issue at all. I believe that hit take (I'm paraphrasing here) was that people get killed by drunk drivers every day. The only thing that made this case newsworthy was that it was committed by an illegal.
Does he not realize that if the illegal had not been here in the first place, or if he had been deported after one of his prior arrests (including at least one DUI), the girls he killed would still be alive?
Dan, that is precisely my point. Of course American citizens commit the same crimes as illegals do. Society is always trying to come up with ways to reduce those incidences. In this case we could have eliminated 20,000 + deaths by enforcing our immigration laws. It's really not much different someone breaking into your home and by mistake starting a fire that kill the people inside, then trying to argue that the fact he was a burglar has nothing to do with the fact you and your family are dead. He was just a careless smoker, lots of people accidentally start fires by carelessly throwing away a smoldering cigarette. The real problem is smoking...... HUH? It's a classic tactic of arguing , when you have no defense change the argument to a different subject.... Thanks for reading and commenting
Cortney it's nothing short of an invasion. Thanks for the comment
The system has to change and elitests in both parties and on both sides of the border don't want to make those changes. Immigration issues are part of a much larger issue; namely, who really owns and runs our government and how do we live in a totally changed world.
Globalization and the open borders that come with it are here and have been for some time. Cheap labor, drug running and all kinds of dark things part of it.
Rounding up and and deporting everyone who does not have proper ID and deporting them or throwing them in already bursting prisons isn't going to happen and won't fix the problem. Building walls won't fix it. A combination of all of these things may help for the immediate and short run. Increased security at the border has impacted certain industries here in California and I am sure elsewhere.
Immigration is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the problems that we as a nation will have to address--and soon--in order to survive.
As Geraldo stated, the illegal population in US prisons is miniscule in comparison with legal US citizens. This is a ridiculous argument, to be honest, because the only thing it serves to do is demonize the illegals in a way that simply isn't intellectually honest.
Aside from that, the issue with illegals has far less to do with the persons themselves than the companies in the US that are hiring them. Start locking up those who hire illegals and you'll start to see the flood reduced to a trickle. As long as there are corrupt companies who're more eager to earn a profit than to be loyal to their country and countrymen, and as long as the government refuses to aggressively seek them out and throw them in prison, we will continue to see 3,000 illegals pour across the border every day.
No Clarke actually they were both yelling at each other pointing fingers and Geraldo, yelled a complete fallacy. That illegals per capita commit less crimes than citizens, just look at the prisons. the fact is that IF we believe the 12million illegal figure and between 22 and 30% of people in prison are illegals, he is wrong. No surprise, liberals never let facts get in the way of a good rant. Remember we have over 200 million people in this country. 12 million is approx. 16.6% of our population.
You have one thing right we need to cut off employment and tax payer services to illegal aliens. We also need to make English the official language and stop printing government materials in other languages.
However, we also need to secure our orders against criminals and terrorists. Besides the people coming for work, others are coming to commit violent and sexual crimes. That segment seems to be growing...
You say, cut off employment and taxpayer services. Does that mean you would look at the illegality of those who employ them in the first place? Or, was swift meat packing just a victim of one of a super duper ID mill. Does that mean you would like to see bio ID and a guest worker program?
Please don't start with the big brother nonsense.....everyone is already in a database through state id anyway.
Oh, but I do worry about big brother when it's one big pool. I don't pretend to know that the ultimate form should be, but I doubt that we have the capability of building in safeguards -- at least not under this administration -- and not until we can get certain checks and balances issues sorted out.
In the meantime, there's going to be a big hoe down and big global business of all kinds may or may not win. Anyway, our bursting jails show that where there's a will there's a way -- one way or the other. Incarceration is big big business too -- ask our beseiged governor and the mayors and governors all around this country and south of the border. We need more old fashioned cops on the beat. A little birth control would go a long way too. But how low tech and low priority compared to 'the big war on drugs and star wars.
Don't know about the crime stats and incarceration populations up north. But we do know the border is porous at check points and security is practically nonexistant elsewhere. I don't suppose terrorists or murderers would bother.
the only question is will it the Mexicans or Muslims?
Anyone wo chooses to take the time to read a few of your articles and/or comments can plainly see that you are not just a defender of ILLEGAL ALIENS, you are an ardent, pro-active supporter of it.
The "issue" doesn't "tend to morph". You deflect and sidestep the subject when confronted head on. You mock those who you label "Xenophobes", (not sure why you felt the need to capitalize it) and then use that label to attempt to minimize what they say
Chris have you been hanging around crazy larry and his bride to be Schizoid Cassie? If this is not a shot towards my Latin ancestry, than I have never been stopped simply for driving a expensive car and being Hispanic.
As for your spelling challenge, my Creative Writing and Business college professors will all ways bet against me if came to that. I have a very minor form of Dyslexia and because of that I have a tendency to reverse some of my letters and numbers.
Juan what about what this article was really about? How come I don't hear you addressing the issue of 1 million people being the victim of a sex crime since 2001, perpetrated by an ILLEGAL ALIEN? Is that acceptable to you? Answer the question asked by the article, and stop obfuscating and redirecting.
I don't care if the rapist, thieve or murderer is legal, illegal, white, Hispanic or Klingon, a crime is a crime.
When are you going to realize Juan an ILLEGAL IS A CRIMINAL. JEEZ
If you find that choice distasteful, I think that speaks for itself.
Lori perhaps I wrote to fast for you. Next time I will most definitely try to slow done and use the least amount of words as possible.
One more thing, how am I abating the criminality of illegal immigrants? I do not give them comfort or money. I do not aid them in their crossings. I do not even belong to any organization that advocates for the rights of illegal immigrants. I do however; believe that every human being deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. It this mine set of love it or leave it that will always keep Americans from fully becoming the perfect Nation that our founding fathers believed it could be.
Typical Lori response, if you do not agree with her, you must be a lowlife illegal or you must be some poor uneducated illiterate anti-American.
Juan stated a crime is a crime. And Juan do you believe you should be punished if you commit a crime?
The reason an illegal is called that is because they are here illegally which means they have broken the law when they entered this country. So they have committed a crime. Juan you are sticking up for criminals....the fact that you dont seem to understand that is why I called you illiterate but what I really mean is you are ignorant. Me bad.
chris w. commented Apr 24, 2007 "Juan, you may not have said it here, but anyone who has read other articles by you and comments by you will see that you most certainly are in favor of open border and amnesty."
O.K. chris, show me these statements, in their entirety, you say I made in which I advocate and campaigned for open borders. If you and your intolerant brethren, Brenda, Schizoid Cassie and crazy larry are going to continue to make this absurd and ridiculous claims than proof it.
Lori if I was illiterate, then I would not be able to read your moronic statements that show your own lack of an Education.
Illiterate \Il*lit"er*ate\, a. [L. illiteratus: pref. il- not +
literatus learned. See In- not, and Literal.]
Unable to read or write; ignorant of letters or books;
by Juan J Martinez
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Farmers Branch citizens go to the polls on May 12 to vote on ordinances aimed at curbing the incursion of illegal immigrants into the mostly white suburb just outside of Dallas Texas. In an ironic twist the ballots used in this vote will be printed in English and Spanish, this despite the fact that Farmers Branch's city council had already approved and passed an English only ordinance in November. The ordinance on the May ballot, when passed, will require landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants. It is my belief that the only reason the ballots will be bi-lingual is the need of Farmers Branch to comply with state law. If it were up to the city council and the majority in this small suburb, they would only be printed in English. If this community feels so threaten by Hispanics and Mexican, and illegal immigrants, perhaps they can start requiring a poll tax like they did in the Old South. They can have a color chart, like the ones painter use, to use as a comparison, if you are darker than this shade you need to pay this amount. That is just my personal opinion and feeling.
As for my article on the intolerant ordinances being passed by Farmers Branch citizens, please show me, which sentence advocates for an open border policy. How is bringing up the idiocy of outlawing the Spanish language anti-American? How is bringing up my misgivings on how an ordinance requiring citizens to show their birth certificates and proof citizenship, can be enforced fairly and equally? I very much appreciate your answers to these questions, if you are going to continue to make assertions that I am pro-illegal and un-American.
If someone can't be bothered to develop a rudimentary ability to read, write and speak in the language of this country they certainly are not able to make an informed decision about an issue, a candidate or a referendum. If you call that unreasonable or idiocy, I would love to hear why.
Not to mention there are already laws on the books regarding illegal immigration that certain cities (san francisco comes to mind immediately) are openly proclaiming they will not enforce. You seem to have no problem with this outright slap at our laws, but if someone wants to enforce or modify an existing one they are racist xenophobes.......
Comments everyone?
When I was in the hospital giving birth to my first son, all of the classes (ie, breast feeding, infant care, etc) were all in spanish. UCI Irvine Hospital, never mind that I knew as much as the nurses (I'm a med student when I can afford it) and that I understand a lot of spanish (though I pretend I don't) nothing was ever offered in English, so I was made to feel an outsider in my own country and state of birth. I don't only go by articles to base my feelings and opinions but have experiences to back them up...
Also, by the way... My first husband was an illegal immegrant from Mexico and was using a forged ID and he had several Social Security Numbers to use when he applied for jobs.. so even the employeers wouldn't even know he was illegal. I taught him to speak excellent english... I didn't make him legal though.. His current wife did. So at least now he's legal after being in this country for years using forged documents and getting thrown in jail, many times (he was/is a drunk). At least he tried to make himself an American and succeeded, if only more would.
Are you going to let someone move into your house, put their feet up on your furniture, eat and drink all your food without them being invited or your knowing anything about them? I think you're just asking for trouble if you do.
hate speech gets flagged
those that are all freedom of speech are the first to stomp on it when they don't agree
Then telling you it's now illegal to lock your doors..........
The next time you catch them, they give you the finger while telling you to hand over your money.......Then bitch cause you don't have a plasma TV.......
Am I the only one that saw the TV program that presented statistics about the Mexican gangsters, MS-13, the fastest growing gang in the US of A?
I heard today on thenews congress is close to an 'agreement' on allowing amnesty for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the US today. If they do this I hope they check each and every one for criminal history. It doesnt seem like congress is asking the general populace what they want. Again.