CRIME
Except for when
an illegal alien does something really horrific, such as when illegal aliens killed
Denver Police Officer Don Young
and Los Angeles County Deputy David March, or when
one dragged his
girlfriend to death behind his car, we rarely hear about the crime being
committed specifically by illegal aliens.
This is somewhat due to the fact that illegal aliens are often silent
on family violence and afraid
to report crime within their communities.
It is also due to the fact that the MSM seems to go out of their way to
not let us know, as they rarely make any distinction between crimes committed
by US citizen perpetrators and illegal alien perpetrators. In their defense, however, establishing the
residency of a perpetrator often takes much longer and with the ever decreasing
news cycles there is just no time to check.
However, the end result is that most crimes being committed by illegal
aliens are simply not reported as being committed by an illegal alien because
by the time the perpetrator’s residency is actually identified it is “old
news.”
While the murders of Officer Young and Deputy March
and the recent horrific dragging death were national news, few know about
illegal alien Cornelio
Rivera Zamites molesting
and then strangling to death four year old Esmerelda
Nava. Yet
such horrible things are happening more and more frequently.
Putting
things in their proper perspective, crime is actually down and since 1993 violent crime has been
trending down. These favorable
results are mostly due to a corresponding “get tough” policy with its increased expenditures
resulting in a large increase in the adult correctional
population, including a dramatic surge in the number of illegal
aliens incarcerated, over the same time period. In any case, despite what the MSM reports, or doesn’t report as
the case may be, there is also a strong correlation between illegal aliens and
crime, as can be gleaned from the accompanying map.
I
suspect that if California was spilt in two, southern California would be in
the top category as well.
While
the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who work hard and are
only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families, something
you or I would probably do if we were in their place, it is also a fact that a
disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals
and sexual
predators. That is part of the dark
side of illegal immigration and when we allow the “good’ in we get the “bad” along
with them. The question is, how much
“bad” is acceptable and at what price?
This
section will concentrate on crimes committed by illegal aliens against
people. However, I do not mean to minimize
the tremendous devastation upon Americans and society in general from
additional illegal alien property crimes.
An example of a rapidly growing property crime that has a high illegal
alien participation, causing many months if not years of misery for the
recipient, see the GOA’s report IDENTITY FRAUD – Prevalance and
Links to Illegal Alien Activity, Identity
Theft is a Serious Immigration Issue,
and Illegal
Aliens Steal Identities To Get American Jobs. If you happen to be the victim of identity theft by an illegal
alien you probably won’t think it was a “victimless” crime.
Additionally, there is a plethora of other
criminal activities with a high illegal alien participation, including crimes
involving methamphetamine, cocaine, prostitution, home invasion, auto
insurance fraud, life
insurance fraud, food stamp
fraud, mortgage fraud, auto
theft, drug trafficking, and prostitution, and, of course, counterfeiting documents.
As
detailed by Edwin Rubenstien in Criminal Alien
Nation, criminal illegal aliens are a growing threat. In summary, he reports:
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, as follows
· · 46,000 in Federal prisons
· · 74,000 in state prisons
· · 147,000 in local jails
Approximately 27%
of all prisoners in Federal custody are criminal illegal aliens. The majority
(63%) are Mexican citizens, although this is mostly due to the fact that the
vast majority of illegal aliens are from Mexico.
In fiscal 2004, the Federal govt.
spent $1.4 billion to incarcerate criminal aliens. This total includes $280 million of reimbursements made to state
and local governments under the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program [SCAAP], but SCAAP funds cover less than 25% of
the full cost of incarcerating criminal aliens, leaving the balance of 75% to
be picked up by the local jurisdiction.
It is worth noting that all costs are ultimately paid for by the
taxpayers.
Although
notable, the public costs of incarcerating aliens are trivial alongside the
carnage they imposed on their victims. 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.
·
· 36% had been arrested on at least 5 prior occasions; 22%, 2
to 4 times; and only 12% once.
·
· 49% had previously been convicted of a felony: 20% of a
drug offense; 18%, a violent offense; and 11%, other felony offenses.
·
·
56% of those charged with a reentry offense had previously
been convicted on at least 5 prior occasions.
·
·
81% of the arrests occurred after 1990
·
·
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.
One of the problems in
identifying the involvement and maybe even more importantly, the
over-representation involvement of illegal aliens in crime, is that nobody
tracks it as a particular demographic statistic. As noted in Cop
murder spotlights crisis of killer aliens -No government agency tracks crimes
by illegals, not even attacks on police nobody really knows how many
illegal alien criminals there are and many
simply fall through the cracks.
In trying to figure out who is
committing the crimes, interestingly, as
noted in The
Tarpit blog, Hispanics/Latinos, by far the largest component of illegal
aliens, become “White, Caucasian, or Other” predators in Arizona. The same thing in Colorado,
Florida,
New Jersey, New Mexico, and probably
other states as well. In any case, I have
not been able to find anybody who tracks criminals by resident status on a
national basis. Given the serious of
the crimes and massive participation by illegal aliens, it almost seems as if
the various government agencies and MSM don’t want you to know.
How big a problem is it? Far greater than you are probably aware
of.
The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration:
Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United
States, by researcher
Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent
Crimes Institute, reports on the analysis of 1,500 violent crimes from
January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders,
sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal aliens. Schurman-Kauflin concluded that, based on a figure of 12
million illegal immigrants and the fact that more of this population is male
than average, sex offenders among illegal aliens are a higher percentage than
sex offenders in the general population.
Schurman-Kauflin
states that the illegal alien population includes 240,000 sex offenders – a
“conservative estimate,” she says. She
goes on to say, "This translates to 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual
offenders coming across U.S. borders illegally per day." She points out the 1,500 offenders in her
study had a total of 5,999 victims, an average of four victims for each sex
offender and says, "This places the estimate for victimization numbers
around 960,000 for the 88 months examined in this study.”
The study breaks down the 1,500
cases reviewed this way:
·
· 525,
or 35 %, were child molestations
·
· 358,
or 24 %, were rapes
·
· 617, or
41 %, were sexual homicides and serial murders
Of the child molestations, 47%
of the victims were Hispanic, 36% Caucasian, 8% Asian, 6% African American and
3% other nationalities. In 82% of the
cases the victims were known to their attackers. "In those instances, the illegal immigrants typically gained
access to the victims after having worked as a day laborer at or near the
victims' homes," she says.
"Victims ranged in age from 1 year old to 13 years old, with the
average age being 6."
In her examination of the
sex-related homicides, Schurman-Kauflin found the most common method was for an
offender to break into a residence and ambush his victims. Not only were victims raped, she said, but
some 6% were mutilated.
"The crime scenes were very
bloody, expressing intense, angry perpetrator personalities," she
said. "Specifically, most victims
were blitzed, rendered incapable of fighting back, and then raped and murdered. The most common method of killing was
bludgeoning, followed by stabbing."
Nearly 63% of the offenders had been deported on another offense prior
to the sex crime, the study showed.
There was an average of three years of committing crimes such as DUI,
assault or drug related offenses prior to being apprehended for a sexual
offense.
Schurman-Kauflin concludes that
illegal alien criminals “gradually commit worse crimes and are continually
released back into society or deported.
Those who were deported simply returned illegally again," she says.
As can
be seen from such studies, many criminal illegal aliens are not your casual law
breaker. Most are recidivists – a.k.a.
career criminals like Juan Leonardo Quintero, who was deported after being
convicted of indecency with a child, but who later came back and then just
recently killed
a Houston cop in cold blood, leaving a widow and five now fatherless
children. Many of the crimes are gang
related with the growing Mara Salvatrucha
(MS-13) gang being notoriously brutal in carrying out its criminal activities.
The
economic burden which career criminals impose on their victims, including loss
of income and property, uncompensated hospital
bills, and treatment for resulting emotional and psychological
trauma – has been estimated
at $1.6 million per property and assault crime offender! This does not include any compensation the
personal devastating impacts upon the victims.
Based
on the study’s figures of 960,000 crimes for the 88 months that is an average of 10,909 per crimes a
month which is about 130,909 per year.
At $1.6 million per crime, illegal alien criminals are reaping havoc on
citizens at a cost of about $210 BILLION.
That is worth repeating: 130,909 victims at a cost of $210
BILLION. Per year.
Does that sound like a
victimless crime? Even if Schurman-Kauflin is off by a factor of two,
that is still 65,455 victims at a cost of $105 Billion. Per year.
Excluding
the potential sex offenders from the Schurman-Kauflin study, nationally it is estimated that 80,000
to 100,000 illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes
still walk the streets. For this group, crime pays.
The
numbers actually underestimate the impact of criminal illegal aliens as the
data does not include:
As noted by Heather MacDonald
in a 2004 article, The
Illegal-Alien Crime Wave:
·
·
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.
·
·
A confidential California
Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60% of the bloody 18th Street
Gang, with an estimated membership at 20,000 in California, are illegal
aliens. Police officers say the
proportion is probably much greater. The gang collaborates with the Mexican
Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complicated drug
distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and is responsible
for a number of murders, assaults, or robberies every day in LA County.
·
·
The Columbia Li’l Cycos gang,
which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.’s
MacArthur Park, was about 60% illegal in 2002, says former Assistant U.S.
Attorney Luis Li. Frank "Pancho
Villa" Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and illegal alien, controls the
gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following
deportation.
A
recent interim report from the House Committee on Homeland Security, A Line
in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border details the
criminal activity and violence taking place along the Southwest border and
notes that the region has been experiencing “an alarming rise in the level of
criminal cartel activity, including drugs and human smuggling...” and continues “The border also is the site
of violent criminal enterprises. These
enterprises are carried out by organized crime syndicates and include the
smuggling of drugs, humans, weapons, and cash across the US-Mexico
border.”
The
report notes that in 2005 of the estimated 1.2 million illegal aliens crossing
the border 165,000 were from countries other than Mexico and, of these, 650
were from “special interest” countries which are countries “designated by the
intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could
bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism.”
The
report further notes that in 2005, Federal drug seizures were a total of
1,129,275 pounds of cocaine and 6,866,465 pounds of marijuana. Much of that was along the southern
border. Additionally, the report
further states that Federal law enforcement estimates that only 10-30% of illegal
aliens are actually apprehended and only 10-20% of the drugs are seized.
Two particularly poignant observations of the report are:
“While many illegal aliens cross
the border searching for employment, not all illegal aliens are crossing into
the United States to find work. Law
enforcement has stated that some individuals come across the border because
they have been forced to leave their home countries due to their criminal
activity. These dangerous criminals are
fleeing the law in other countries and seeking refuge in the United States.”
“Each year hundreds of illegal
aliens from countries known to harbor terrorists or promote terrorism are
routinely encountered and apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.”
Still
think we don’t need to control our borders?
As noted by Mike Cutler in A Very Bad
Sign for America, things are really getting out of hand.
In fact it is getting so bad along the southern
border that KVIA news reported: Threat to US citizens forces Mx
officials to lock down town, TX Sheriff boosts security. Also see Ranch Rescue USA for numerous references
on the escalating violence and serious incidents that are occurring on the
southern border.
As summarized above, there are
numerous illegal alien criminals causing havoc throughout America. We often hear from the MSM, and liberals in
general, that illegal immigration is a victimless
crime.
Tell
that to the relatives of the following victims:
Mary Nagle, a wife and mother of
two, who was raped and murdered by an illegal alien who came to her home to
power wash her porch. If that wasn’t
bad enough, the perpetrator used Mary Nagle’s own cell phone to call her
sisters and friends describing how he sexually abused her.. Read about the tragic story here
and here.
The two Catholic nuns who were
on a walk saying their rosary when they were attacked by illegal alien
Maximilano Esparza who raped both and
killed one by strangling her
with her rosary beads.
The 10 killed and 4 wounded
victims of illegal alien Muslim fanatic and sniper John
Lee Malvo.
Norfolk
Police Officer Sheila Herring who was shot by illegal alien Mario Roberto Keen as she responded to a disturbance at a
sports bar. Keen had previously been
sentenced to five years in prison in 1990 for selling cocaine and was later
deported. Keen attempted to re-enter
the United States in New York in 1997, but was reportedly barred from entering. Obviously, he
found another way to reenter.
Police Officer
Brandon Winfield, a 12-year veteran on the Houston police force with five
children who was killed by illegal alien Juan Leonardo Qunitero who had been
previously deported for molesting a 12-year-old girl. Officer Winfield thought he was assisting a disabled motorist
when he was murdered in cold blood.
Kimberley
Hope who was killed while feeding her neighbor’s
dogs by illegal alien Daniel Gonzalez Berumen who wanted her car.
Terry and Lisa Dilks of Urbandale, Iowa, who were murdered by two illegal aliens. Both perpetrators had previously been
arrested on drug charges and turned over and
subsequently released by federal immigration agents.
Vinessa Hoera
was a young single mom, only 23, when
she was kidnapped, raped and brutally murdered by an illegal alien from
Guatemala.
Tracy Owen, a 23 year old, very pregnant woman of Nashville, who
was murdered because a couple of drunk, illegal aliens thought they had struck
her in a traffic accident. In fact,
they had not but shot her five times believing they had.
And these are just a few of the Americans who
recently died at the hands of illegal aliens.
As
noted, many of the crimes being committed by illegal aliens are sex
crimes. Interestingly, few of these
crimes are widely reported by the MSM and the fact that the perpetrators were
illegal aliens was often ignored or downplayed when the incidents were actually
reported.
Some of the sex crimes committed by illegal aliens in the last
few years are noted below. There are
many, MANY more. In a few of the links
below, the bylines were changed to reflect the actual facts. While there may be one or two duplications,
these are all separate incidents.
Six gang rapes by illegal aliens, Smugglers
of Illegal Aliens Cause Rising Violence in Arizona, America
as Predators Paradise, More
illegal aliens tried in gang rapes,
Man (illegal alien), 19, accused of lewd
and lascivious acts with girl, 13, Illegal
aliens linked to gang-rape wave, 14 farm
workers arrested in kidnap, rape,
Sting
rounds up 25 foreigners for sex crimes,
Illegal
alien rapes puppy, Study: 1 million sex
crimes by illegals - 100 offenders
crossing border daily, Charge
is sex with 13 year old, Border
Sex Slave Ring Defendant Gets 10 Years,
Jeffersonville
suspect caught in Louisville (molested 8 year old girl), Court
dates loom in taxi, school rapes Illegal
immigrant rapes one woman and assaults another, 4 illegal
aliens gang-rape woman in NYC,
Man, 19, accused of lewd
and lascivious acts with girl, 13,
Illegal
Immigrant Arrested for Rape of Newlywed,
Jamaican
Immigrant Sentenced for Rape of 13-Year-Old, Fugitive Sexual
Predators Wanted by Interpol Nabbed in New Jersey, Illegal
immigrant denied bail reduction (for trying to abduct 11 year old girl), Child-rape
suspect tells police he has HIV (raped 5
year old and knew he had HIV), Man
pleads guilty in Frame Park rape,
Man
sentenced to 20 years under new sex offender law (raped 8 year old), Illegal
immigrant pleads guilty to assaulting 6-year-old girl, Illegal
Immigrant Suspected in Rapes and Dozens of Sexual Assaults, More Details on Illegal
Immigrant Accused of Raping Children,
Illegal
aliens linked to gang-rape wave - The crime epidemic no one will talk about?, Outrage as
'rapist' vanishes, Illegal
immigrants charged with sexual assault on two 13 year old girls, Illegal
immigrant is given 10 years in gross sexual imposition case, Theories swirl
around Friday's kidnapping, rape,
Illegal
immigrant accused of impregnating 10-year-old girl “Worst of the worst”
arrested during Special Operation,
Illegal
alien kidnaps and rapes 9 year old girl,
Immigrant
Suspected in 7 Sexual Assaults, Police
Looking For Illegal Immigrant Suspected Of Raping A Child, Life
term for illegal alien who raped, kidnapped 9 year old girl, Illegal
Immigrant Charged with Sodomizing Young Boy, Members
of Mexican Sex Slave Ring Sentenced,
Illegal
alien jailed for sexual assault of girl, 14, 16-year-old
illegal immigrant sentenced for brutal knifepoint rape, Naked
illegal alien In Mask Attacks Babysitter, 36 Immigrant Sex
Offenders Arrested In Orange County,
Illegal
immigrant is given 10 years in gross sexual imposition case, Another
Child and drug Smuggling Arrest at Hidalgo Port,
16
Year Old Illegal Immigrant sentenced to 33 years for rape and burglary, Feds
Bust 25 Illegal Alien Sexual Predators in L.A., Illegal alien suspect in
newlywed's rape arrested in Texas,
Calif.
fugitive wanted on sex charges arrested at Canadian border
For more recent examples of this
type of terror being perpetrated by illegal aliens go to Read This.
There are currently over
400,000 unaccounted for illegal alien criminals with outstanding deportation
orders. Those are just the ones
apprehended. At least one fourth of
these are hard core criminals. Nobody
knows how many more there are however, as noted above, they are numerous and
roaming your neighborhoods, preying on you and your family. Read more about it here.
Occasionally,
the Federal Government decides to actually do something about some of the more
violent illegal alien criminals – after they are already here and have
committed mayhem! Operation
Predator evolved
out of ICE's mission to find and deport illegal aliens with the more heinous
criminal records. The majority of the
arrests under Operation Predator - roughly 85% - involved foreign nationals in
this country whose child sex crimes made them removable from the United
States. By matching immigration
databases with state Megan's law directories, ICE agents have arrested more
than 1,800 registered sex offenders.
Operation Predator began on July 9, 2003, and
resulted in 6,085 child predator arrests throughout the country - an average of
roughly 250 arrests per month and eight arrests per day. While arrests have
been made in every state, the most have occurred in these states: Arizona
(207), California (1,578), Florida (255), Illinois (282), Michigan (153),
Minnesota (190), New Jersey (423), New York (367), Oregon (148) and Texas
(545). While operation Predator was a
noble effort it only made a small dent in the criminal activity of illegal
aliens.
In fact, the criminal activity in the illegal alien
community is now so bad that illegal aliens are being
held for ransom and as slaves by other illegal aliens and smugglers
are kidnapping illegal aliens from other
smugglers! Then there is the fast
growing “sex slave” problem as reported in The
Girls Next Door, SEX
TRAFFICKING - San Francisco Is A Major Center For International Crime Networks
That Smuggle And Enslave, Raid
in Tennessee ends girl's captivity as a sex slave, Profiling Sex
Trafficking: Illegal Immigrants At Risk,
Latina Sex
Slavery, and Police sting in
Colorado shuts down Pacifica brothel.
For more crimes
committed by illegal aliens and the personal impact it has had on individual
citizens see Immigrations Human
Cost, Victims of Illegal Aliens, Crime Victims of Illegal Aliens, Escaping
Justice, Predatory Aliens, Crimes involving immigrants from around the world,
both legal and otherwise,
and Victims of Illegal Aliens
Memorial. Go to Fallen Heroes
for information on a few more cops killed by illegal aliens.
When visiting any of the links and sites, keep in mind that
nobody is tracking and reporting the
crimes on a national basis and these are just the tip of the iceberg.
While
it is a fact that most illegal aliens are law abiding, except for breaking
immigration laws, it is also a fact that a significant percentage of illegal
aliens have no respect for the rule of law and our legal customs. Many come with anti-American attitudes and
philosophies that are totally alien to our culture, a subject addressed later
in this paper. The end result is an
ever-growing lawlessness among large portions of the illegal alien
communities. It only makes sense that
illegal alien criminals come to the United States – this is where the money is
and our jails are a whole lot nicer than what they have in their home
countries.
As
previously noted, this report does not go into the property crimes being
committed by illegal aliens. However,
like the activities of other equal opportunity criminals, many property crimes
are drug related, an activity that many illegal aliens, especially illegal
alien gangs, are involved in. While
violent crimes against one’s person are the most serious, if your identity or
car is stolen by an illegal alien you won’t be too happy about it.
As a
small example of property crimes, in 2003, according to the Arizona Department
of Motor Vehicles, 57,600 cars were stolen in Phoenix alone. The owner losses are estimated to exceed
$864 million. Most of the stolen cars ended
up in Mexico and were never recovered.
How many of those cars were stolen by illegal alien criminals versus
resident criminals is unknown but you can be confident that illegal aliens had
a large part of it.
For
additional information on the criminal side of illegal aliens, and especially
the growing illegal
alien
gang problem, see the following links, starting with the MUST READ A Line
in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border, The
Illegal-Alien Crime Wave,
Crime & the Illegal Alien, Predatory Aliens, Immigration’s Human Cost, Illegal Aliens in Federal,
State, and Local Criminal Justice Systems, Illegals: The
Crime Rampage, Violent
Sexual Predators Who Are Illegal Aliens, Illegal
Aliens Linked to Rise in Crime Statistics, Illegal
Alien Crime Wave: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You, Immigration
and the Alien Gang Epidemic:MS-13, Problems and Solutions, Squaring
up for a drugs war on streets of Laredo, Gangs:
Immigration’s Third World Momentum,
America's Most Dangerous Gang – MS13 -
Violent, Vicious, and Spreading Fast, Feds Bust 25 Illegal Alien Sexual Predators in Los Angeles, Young
rape victim (5 years old) undergoes HIV treatment, MS-13 gang
growing extremely dangerous, FBI says, More illegal
aliens tried in gang rapes - 2 new cases uncovered in unnoticed crime wave, 7
Mexican Gang Members Arrested in Western Suburbs Face Deportation, The Truth About Illegal
Immigration, The
U.S./Mexican Border Has Become a Sieve of Death, Alien
Crime Gang in the Shenandoah Valley,
Crime & the
Illegal Alien -The Fallout from Crippled Immigration Enforcement, Illegal Alien Killers,
Rapists, and Robbers, Border Breakdown, Crime:
Mexico's No. 1 export - 'Minutemen' founder provides inside look at violent
Hispanic gang MS-13,
If you do not yet have any of the violent
illegal alien gangs in your area, you might want to take note of illegal
aliens move away from traditional illegal immigrant enclaves and settle in mass
newer areas and a fairly recent
Washington Times article, Gang follows
illegal aliens, that noted:
“The violent MS-13 - or Mara Salvatrucha -
street gang is following the migratory routes of illegal aliens across the
country, FBI officials say, calling the Salvadoran gang the new American mafia.
MS-13, has a significant presence in the
Washington area, and other gangs are spreading into small towns and suburbs by
following illegal aliens seeking work in places such as Providence, R.I., and
the Carolinas, FBI task force director Robert Clifford said. "The migrant moves and the gang
follows," said Mr. Clifford, director of the agency's MS-13 National Gang
Task Force.”
As
reported by Known Gangs, one of the nation's leading private organizations
specializing in gangs training and information, here is some information on one
of the 
most
violent gangs that has a very high illegal
alien involvement, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13):
In the 1980s, “A group of Salvadorian immigrants created a new gang
calling themselves Mara Salvatrucha also known as MS-13. It is believed they got their name from
combining the name of “La Mara”, a violent street gang in El Salvador with
Salvatruchas, a term used to denote members of the Farabundo Marti National
Liberation Front. This was a group of
Salvadorian peasants trained as guerilla fighters. The “13” was added to pay homage to the California prison gang,
the Mexican Mafia.
Members of this newly formed gang
soon engaged in violent criminal acts.
They quickly became known as one of the most violent gangs in the area
because many of their founding members had experience or training in guerilla
warfare, thus gaining a level of sophistication that superseded their rivals.
Mara Salvatrucha has become
Central America’s greatest problem. In
addition to violent acts committed by the gang against citizens and gang
rivalries, the gang has even engaged in organized violent acts against the
government. In 1997 the son of Honduras
President Ricardo Maduro was kidnapped and murdered by MS-13 members. MS-13 members have continued to taunt
Central American government officials.
Members also left a dismembered corpse with a note for the Honduras
president that “more people will die… the next victims will be police and
journalists.” In 2004, Guatemalan
President Oscar Berger received a similar messages attached to the body of a
dismembered man from MS-13 members.
In 2002 in the city of
Tegucigalpa in the Honduras, MS-13 members boarded a public bus and immediately
executed 28 people including 7 small children.
Again, they left a message written on the front of the bus taunting
government officials.
…Currently El Salvador has a
murder rate of approximately 54 per every 100,000 people, while the United
States murder rate is approximately 6 per every 100,000.
….MS-13 members in our country
are known to be involved in all aspects of criminal activity. Some law
enforcement sources have reported that because of their ties to their former
homeland, MS-13 members have access to sophisticated weapons thus making
firearms trafficking one of their many criminal enterprises.
Despite their access to weaponry, there have been many
high-profile murders and assaults in which MS-13 have used machetes to attack
their victims.
The federal government has increased efforts to
locate and deport illegal MS-13 members living in our nation but with the lack
of cooperation from many cities whom support sanctuaries policies, has made the
government’s job an uphill battle.”
As noted in Gang s Or Us, “Since
there are no “precise” statistics, it is difficult to estimate the number of
cliques or the number of members. It
has been estimated that MS-13 has over 15,000 members and associates in at
least 115 different cliques in 33 states, and these numbers are continually
increasing.”
Although notable,
don’t think that the illegal alien crime wave is just a Mexican or Salvadorian
problem. Also see: Chinese
Organized Crime and Illegal Alien Trafficking: Humans as a Commodity, The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave, and Beyond
Willie Sutton: Crime And Lack Of Punishment for information
on other equal opportunity illegal alien criminals.
While this report has attempted to put a personal face on the
collateral damage of illegal alien crime, note that many if not most of the links in this report detailing some of the
crime are dependent on the archiving time of some of the various sources making
their articles available. Once taken
down, many of the crimes simply “disappear” from American consciousness. As an example, I’m willing to bet that most
people living outside of the Denver metro are not aware that in the fall of
1999 five Asian gang members, illegal aliens as it was reported many
years latter, kidnapped and gang raped a University of Colorado coed. Initiation rites were involved and they
specifically targeted a “white woman.”
If it wasn’t for the archiving efforts of some groups fighting illegal
immigration general knowledge of such incidents would be
lost to all but the most serious researcher.
Even with the internet it is very difficult to track down and report the
participation level of illegal aliens in crime because NOBODY IS KEEPING
TRACK! However, as this report has
detailed and documented, it is quite considerable and is the direct consequence
of our unfettered immigration policy and lack of enforcement.
As noted in Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before
the House Subcommittee on immigration, Border, Security and Claims:
“Unfortunately, the majority of illegal
aliens who are here are engaged in criminal activity. Identity theft, use of
fraudulent social security numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving
without licenses represent some of the crimes that are engaged in by the
majority of illegal aliens on a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their
illegal status. In addition, violent
crime and drug distribution and possession is also prevalent among illegal
aliens. Over 25% of today's federal
prison population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the country, 12% of
felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are committed by illegal
aliens."
What is on the horizon if we don’t get
serious? Besides the growing MS13
problem, a November 29, 2006 article in the Washington
Post Foreign Service, Surge in Violence Shocks
Even Weary Mexico - Drug Killings Nearly Doubled In
Past Year, reports:
“…A hit man had decapitated Sauzo's son, then
chopped off his arms and legs. The
killer was so unconcerned about being brought to justice that he scrawled his
own name and nickname -- "El Barby" -- on a note left with the
mutilated corpse.
Still, Sauzo's mother, Cristina Gomez,
didn't bother to go to the police. "Why waste my time?" she said in
an interview. "This is the way it
is in a town without laws."
Gomez's reaction and the audacity of
Sauzo's murder -- one of 11 decapitations in the state of Guerrero this year
and one of 2,000 killings in a nationwide war between rival drug cartels -- are
symptomatic of the unraveling of the rule of law that has plagued Mexico for
years.
But in the past year, the number of
spectacularly gruesome killings and the intensity of civil unrest have spiked
to such alarming levels that even Mexicans who were once hardened by years of
violence are shocked.
…The bulk of the violence is the result of
a barbaric, five-year war between Mexican drug cartels which are now
approaching the strength and size of the notorious Colombian cartels of the
1980s. Drug killings have nearly doubled in the past year; in a single incident
this month, six police officers were fatally shot in the troubled state of
Michoacan.
…."We have a huge problem, a problem
that exists throughout the country; it's difficult, complicated, dynamic,"
said Juan Heriberto Salinas Alt’, a retired army general who serves as Guerrero
state's public security director. "It's something we've never seen
before."
….In Guerrero, a southern Mexican state
best known for its Acapulco resorts, drug killings have ballooned from 32 at
this point last year to 281, according to Salinas Alt’s, the public security
director. Only a handful of those
murders have been solved because of "a high level of police
corruption," he said.
…Tamayo Hernendez, known as workaholic
family man, was found Nov. 10 naked and dead in a cheap roadside motel
room. That day, a Tijuana police chief
was shot to death. A headline in the
Mexico City newspaper El Universal called it "A Normal Day in the
Country," and in an editorial, the paper lamented that "bit by bit,
murder by murder, the country is winning an international reputation for
danger."
As noted in Mexico's
Drug Wars Heat Up “In the once-chic beach resort of Acapulco, the severed heads of two
police officers who had been clamping down on drug traffickers were found a few
months ago with a note attached: "So that you learn to respect." The grisly method soon caught on. In August
alone, four more heads accompanied by threatening notes appeared in the central
Mexican state of Michoacán.”
Something to
think about next time you are vacationing in Mexico.
In any case,
these are some of the criminal illegal aliens that are freely coming across the
southern border to set up shop and operations in America. How serious is the problem? In answer to that question, you might want
to check out the following videos:
The Threat
Next Door (MS13)
Los Angeles
Gangs
Latino Gangs on the Rise (in Memphis)
Gangs Recruiting Younger Kids
To see which gangs may be operating in your
state go to Gangs Or Us.
Finally, don’t think the gang
problem is just a male illegal alien problem.
For some insights into female gang members, see The changing face of
gangs - Dramatic increases in gang activity nationwide include a strong, rising
female presence.
Putting the criminal
dark side of illegal aliens into perspective, how much collateral damage in terms of rapes, child molestations, and
murders should we tolerate for every million illegal aliens in the country,
just to save a few cents on each head of lettuce or for cheap nannies? Putting it into liberal-speak, how many children must get hooked
on drugs or be molested before we do something about it?
Allowing our borders
to be wantonly disregarded coupled with little national commitment about doing
anything about it has resulted in growing mayhem by illegal alien criminals,
not a “victimless crime.”
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