Amnesty would not only be a joke, it would be disastrous. Have we learned nothing in the 22 years since the last mass amnesty, The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986? Where did that get us? The immigration law enforcement and secure borders it promised have been essentially nonexistent. Twenty (20) million illegal aliens have jumped the border and reside here now and who know how many of their anchor babies in those 22 years have received de facto citizenship simply because their illegal alien parents had them on our soil (estimates state that 380,000 – 400,000 anchor babies are born each year. In fact, 10% of births in the U.S. are children (anchor babies) of illegal aliens).
Don’t for a minute think that the conditional phrase politicians use of “earned citizenship”, as stated by Congress in their amnesty proposals means anything. Background check? Yeah, right…we will have no real idea the criminal past of those foreign nationals illegally here because their either is no databases in their countries of origin or the databases are woefully inadequate. Besides, they usually “invent” new names or steal a citizen’s ID once here anyway. The last amnesty proposal proved what a joke the requirement “of no criminal past” as a condition of amnesty was. The bill stated that the FBI must provide evidence within 24 hours of the application for legalization being filed as to any reason to deny the application of the illegal for legal standing. How ridiculous is that? It’s beyond just reasonable to assume that the whole criminal background check provision for amnesty is a joke. Furthermore, membership in a gang (i.e., MS-13, SUR 13, Mexican Mafia, Latin Kings, etc.) was not grounds for denying legalization. An FBI and Justice Department report found that while Hispanics are three times more likely than white Americans to be convicted of serious crimes requiring incarceration, they are nineteen times more likely to belong to criminal street gangs. In addition, Asian youths are nine times more likely to belong to a criminal gang.
The provision to pay fines? A joke too. There were all kinds of waivers such as nothing up front, partial payment, delayed payment and even no payment if the illegal alien claimed hardship. Evenso, doesn’t this provision sound like Congress is putting up American citizenship for sale, even if you have illegally entered?
I don’t recall any provision in past amnesty bills that illegals would be screened for diseases before amnesty being granted. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis, measles, leprosy, venereal disease and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas disease, and leprosy have all increased significantly in the U.S. with the arrival of millions of illegals. Even bedbugs have invaded the U.S. for the first time in over 50 years with over 30 states reporting infestations. For 40 years only 900 cases of leprosy had been diagnosed in the U.S. But, from 2000-2003, 7000 leprosy cases were discovered. Significant increases in multi-drug resistant TB have occurred. In 2003, northern Virginia reported a 17% surge in tuberculosis cases; in Prince William Co. VA, the increase was 188%. In northern Virginia, foreign-born accounted for 92% of all cases. NOTE: Three countries, all of which send immigrants and illegal aliens to America, account for two-thirds of all TB cases: Mexico, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Since TB is transmittable through the air, an active carrier can infect 10, 20 or even more people (the time bomb effect). The incidence of TB is 10 times as high among immigrants as among our native born. Among immigrant children it is 100 times as high.
Fraud? Have I mentioned fraud in the application and assessment process? It will be pervasive and rampant. Our immigration system, even as it now exists, is riddled with fraud. The discussion of fraud in the immigration could take up a number of pages but just let me point out one recently discovered example. In November 2007 the State Department confirmed that massive immigration fraud has been perpetrated overwhelmingly by Africans claimed as close kin (parent, spouse, minor child) by legal residents who have already immigrated to the United States. Given that Somalis form the largest bloc of African immigrants to the United States, this becomes another story with Somalis playing a starring role. Evidence of “family” fakery came out in a very quietly released State Department fact sheet titled “Fraud in the Africa Priority Three (P-3) Program.” How massive was this fraud? After initiating a DNA testing program among “family” members claiming P-3 status in Africa — where 95 percent of the P-3 applications originate primarily among Somalis, Ethiopians and Liberians — the State Department learned that out of 3,500 refugees tested it could only confirm family matches “in fewer than 20 percent of cases.” The P-3 program has brought upward of 36,000 Africans into the United States just since 2003 (with another 400 arriving from the rest of the world). Just how comfortable are you that our government’s immigration system can handle the crush and rush to competently handle 20 million (or more) amnesty applications should our insane Congress pass such a measure?
Cost? How about the cost that illegal aliens here impose on us.
For education-medical-incarceration costs (all state studies by FAIR – Federation for American Immigration Reform):
North Carolina (2009 study): $1.2 billion dollars annually
Georgia (2008 study): $1.6 billion dollars annually
Colorado (2008 study): $1.1 billion dollars annually
Illinois (2007 study): $3.5 billion dollars annually
Tennessee (2007 study): $285 million annually
Iowa (2007 study): $240 million dollars annually
New York (2006 study): $5.1 billion dollars annually
Florida: (2006 study): $4.3 billion dollars annually
New Jersey (2006 study): $2.1 billion dollars annually
Texas (2005 study): $4.7 billion dollars annually
California (2004 study): $10.5 billion dollars annually
Arizona (2004 study): $1.3 billion dollars annually
All in all, the presence of illegal aliens in the U.S. is estimated to cost the country in excess of $100 billion dollars annually.
Keep in mind that the costs cited above includes only expenditures for education, emergency medical care and incarceration. The costs would be significantly higher if expenditures on other programs such as special English instruction, law enforcement/courts, translators, assistance for public housing, food stamps, welfare payments, etc. were included. Other factors not considered in the reports are job losses by citizens to illegal aliens and the depression of wages in the construction, landscaping, assembly, food processing and service sectors that most illegal aliens are employed in.
A word or two about crime should also be stated. California, Los Angeles in particular, are ground zero for total numbers of illegal aliens and their effect. For major cities, LA has the largest number of illegal aliens and estimates of at least 6 million illegals reside in the state of California. Heather MacDonald, a Manhattan Institute scholar revealed in 2004 that:
- In Los Angeles, 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide, which total 1,200 to 1,500, target illegal aliens
- Two-thirds of the 17,000 outstanding fugitive felony warrants in LA are for illegal aliens
- Some 12,000 of the 20,000 strong 18th Street Gang that operates across southern California are illegals.
Yet, Los Angeles and much of California, including a number of large cities in the nation are “sanctuary cities”. They have adopted “sanctuary” policies where local police are forbidden by orders to work with federal immigration (ICE) authorities on immigration violations. Amazingly, even when an officer (even the entire department) knows that a suspect or arrestee has been previously deported he cannot report them to ICE.
Between 2000 and 20004, 4.5 million illegal aliens had been caught sneaking into the U.S. (the Border Patrol catches about 20% of illegal entries). Among that 4.5 million there were more than 350,000 with criminal records. Therefore, one in twelve apprehended by the Border Patrol was already a criminal. That equates to 70,000 criminal felons apprehended each year. That means that well over 300,000 criminal illegal aliens succeeded in getting in during that period. How many Americans have been robbed, assaulted, raped or murdered because government failed in its duty to defend the borders and secure the safety of citizens by combating illegal immigration effectively?
FAIR reported in 2002 the magnitude of the exploding alien crime crisis:
“In 1980 our federal and state prisons housed fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. By the end of 1999, these same prisons housed over 68,000 criminal aliens. Today, criminal aliens account for over 29% of prisoners in the Federal Bureau of Prison facilities and a higher share of all federal prison inmates. These prisoners represent the fastest growing segment of the federal prison population.”
Aliens in the U.S. account for 12% of the population, but 30% of the federal prison population. The pool of legal immigrants is the sea in which the illegals and the criminals swim.
Two recent studies are of special note. The first released October 1, 2008, by the Center for Immigration Studies deals with gang activity: “Taking Back the Streets: ICE and Local Law Enforcement Target Immigrant Gangs” is the Center for Immigration Studies report that offers these highlights:
# Transnational immigrant gangs have been spreading rapidly and sprouting in suburban and rural areas where communities are not always equipped to deal with them.
# A very large share of immigrant gang members are illegal aliens and removable aliens. Federal sources estimate that 60 to 90 percent of the members of MS-13, the most notorious immigrant gang, are illegal aliens. In one jurisdiction studied, Northern Virginia, 30 to 40 percent of the gang task force case load were removable aliens.
# MS-13 activity was found in 48 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
# The immigrant gangsters arrested were a significant menace to the public. About 80 percent had committed serious crimes in addition to their immigration violations and 40 percent were violent criminals.
# While immigration law enforcement is a federal responsibility, ICE cannot do the job effectively without assistance from state and local law enforcement, particularly when it comes to immigrant gangs.
# Failure to adequately control the U.S.-Mexico border and to deter illegal settlement in general undermines the progress ICE and local law enforcement agencies have made in disrupting criminal immigrant street gangs.
The second, released October 3, 2008 by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, Arizona, details the percentage of crimes committed by border violators in the third largest county in the U.S. Maricopa County, Arizona is the best area in the country for reliable illegal alien crime statistics. The county sheriff, Joe Arpaio, has aggressively decided to combat illegal alien crime in his county. He has partnered with federal ICE through the 287 (g) program which trains local law enforcement personnel in determining, dealing with and deporting illegal aliens. He has a well staffed Triple I Unit (Illegal Immigrant Interdiction Unit).
The MCAO report from County Attorney Andrew Thomas features these startling numbers for prosecuted felony cases in Maricopa County, Arizona:
In 2007, illegal immigrants accounted for:
10% of sex crimes convictions
11% of murders convictions
13% of stolen cars convictions
13% of aggravated assaults convictions
17% of those sentenced for violent crimes
19% of those sentenced for property crimes
20% of those sentenced for felony DUI.
21% of crimes committed with weapons
34% of those sentenced for the manufacture, sale or transport of drugs
36% of those sentenced for kidnapping
44% of forgeries
50% of those sentenced for crimes related to “chop shops”
85% of false ID convictions
96% of smuggling convictions
Illegal immigrants make up 19 percent of those convicted of crimes in Maricopa County and 21 percent of those in county jails.
Illegal immigrants only make up an estimated 9 percent of the county’s population.
It is estimated that each violent crime cost citizens $20,000, and each property crime cost citizens $4363 per offense.
All the more a concern is research that finds the likelihood of an illegal immigrant being incarcerated grows with longer residence in the United States and that the U.S. born children (considered citizens) of illegal immigrants are dramatically more likely to be involved in crime than their illegal immigrant parents. For instance, native born Hispanic male high school dropouts are eleven times more likely to be incarcerated than their foreign born counterparts.
I suppose its well beyond time that I wrap up this long post. We must hold our federal government accountable and charge them with a dereliction of duty. The first duty of government is to protect its citizens. In that, it has failed miserably. Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government, and shall protect them against invasion.” Who can deny that we aren’t suffering an invasion, with 20 million illegal aliens massed here who arrive at the rate of approximately 2 million a year? Contrary to protecting citizens from invasion, the Federal Government has done just the contrary…facilitated the invasion. The feds require citizenship be automatic to children of illegal aliens born here, they require free (not to taxpayers) public education to illegal aliens, they require all hospitals provide “emergency” (which is essentially any) medical care to illegal aliens regardless of their ability to pay (and almost none do), the feds allow appeals almost ad finitum to deportation orders to prosecuted criminal illegals allowing them to remain circulating here with practical impunity, some states even allow illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition rates for college without extending the same privilege to citizens, the illegal alien family can receive food stamps and welfare payments if an anchor baby is involved (and many receive those benefits by having stolen a citizen’s ID or presenting fictitious ones), and illegal aliens can receive taxpayer funded public housing assistance. A perfect example is Barak Obama’s illegal alien aunt Zeituni Onyango, a Kenyan national, has been living on taxpayer assistance in Boston public housing for years. She is also an absconder as she has violated deportation orders. Besides being an illegal alien on public housing assistance another issue is how did she receive the assistance while at the same time violating deportation orders? She left the Boston area in late 2008 and moved to Cleveland, still not complying with her deportation orders. As an indication as to where we are headed with the 111th U.S. Congress under Democrat lockdown, they just passed in early January the SCHIP program which will also provide government paid for health insurance to illegal alien children. Obama is expected to sign the bill (after it cruises through the Senate) happily.
Our government and our politicians have failed us miserably, even criminally. The same goes for the faceless bureaucrats managing ineffective, ponderous, bloated agencies. They have demonstrated time and time again their inability, even their willfull disregard to protect the citizens of America from the Third World invasion. Don’t sit on your hands, get active and fight for your country. Unless the vast majority of citizens express their outrage, America as we’ve known her will be changed forever. Perhaps even destroyed.
