The second topic that I will cover in depth as a part of Operation W’s Redemption is illegal immigration.
Illegal immigration is a huge problem in the United States. It is a threat to our National Security, to American jobs, to our safety, and to our culture.
In this lesson (which again, will most likely be split into two separate lessons for easier reading, the first only covering crime)I will cover to following talking points:
The dangers in illegal immigration
Statistics on where they are coming from and in what numbers
The threat to our culture
Sanctuary Cities
Modern day slavery
The cost of illegal immigration
Put your hands and your Green Card in the air where I can see them! (¡Ponga sus manos y su carta verde en el aire donde puedo verlas!)
It is no secret that we are living in a country in dire straits as far as undocumented immigrants are concerned. Illegal immigration is an issue isn’t just a matter of people sneaking into America to seek a better life. It is a threat to our safety, our economy, our national security, and our culture.
Every single day, an estimated 10,000 people set foot on US soil that have not been approved to become residents. They bypassed our immigration laws and our border security and have subjected innocent American citizens to danger.
Some of you may be saying “Not all immigrants that jump the border are criminals.”
To that I say: Every single one of them is a criminal, is guilty of breaking the law, and should be documented into the system as having entered the US illegally, and then promptly deported.
There is a set of guidelines that one must abide by to be approved to live in our country. There is a process to come into our country in an orderly, documented fashion and become a productive member of society. It is a matter of THE LAW. If you break that law, you are a criminal.
Crime in this country is out of control among illegal immigrants and are less likely to be reported for fear of legal ramification including incarceration and deportation. They are less likely to report domestic abuse or crimes occurring in their communities or at work.
Crimes by illegal aliens are crimes that should not have occurred. A report by the GAO in 2005 revealed the following results:
"At the federal level, the number of criminal aliens incarcerated increased from about 42,000 at the end of calendar year 2001 to about 49,000 at the end of calendar year 2004--a 15 percent increase. The percentage of all federal prisoners who are criminal aliens has remained the same over the last 3 years--about 27 percent. The majority of criminal aliens incarcerated at the end of calendar year 2004 were identified as citizens of Mexico. We estimate the federal cost of incarcerating criminal aliens--BOP's cost to incarcerate criminals and reimbursements to state and local governments under SCAAP--totaled approximately $5.8 billion for calendar years 2001 through 2004. BOP's cost to incarcerate criminal aliens rose from about $950 million in 2001 to about $1.2 billion in 2004--a 14 percent increase."
The study also audited a sampling of 100 incarcerated illegals and found that 73 of them accounted for :429 arrests, 878 charges, and 241 convictions. The charges ranged from burglary, robbery, and theft to drug related charges.
- The L.A. County Sheriff reported in 2000 that 23% of inmates in county jails were deportable, according to the New York Times.
- In 2004, an estimated two-thirds of around 17,000 outstanding fugitive felony warrants were targeted at illegal aliens in Los Angeles.
Initiation into American Culture, or the destruction of it?: Gang Activity and How Sanctuary Cities Exploit OUR Safety
As recently as October of this year, American children have been the victims of gang and drug cartel activity in the United States at the hands of illegal aliens. Six year old Cole Puffinburger
It is happening everywhere. All gangs are a danger to our neighborhoods, but gangs of illegal immigrants should not be on the map. They should not be here. These crimes could have been prevented.
Sanctuary cities such as San Francisco encourage and allow these types of activities to continue. In June of this year in San Francisco, Danielle Bologna lost her husband and two sons at the hands of an illegal alien, Edwin Ramos of El Salvador.
Due to the "City of Refuge" ordinance established in 1989, federal authorities were not notified of Ramos’ previous convictions as a juvenile on gang related charges. The ordinance strictly prohibit’s the Juvenile Probation Department from alerting the feds on matters of immigration.
One of the most famous gangs is made up of Salvadorians and is made up of many illegals. It is called Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). The Washington Times has claimed that the FBI is referring to MS-13 as the “new American Mafia.”
According to Gangs or Us, “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.”
These gangs are guilty of crimes such as murder, gang-rape, decapitating victims, robbery, human-trafficking, and drug trafficking.
A study released in June of 2007 conducted by ICE:
"The results of the assessment showed that most major metropolitan areas were experiencing a surge in gang activity. Additionally, the survey showed that membership of these violent transnational gangs was comprised largely of foreign-born nationals."
Source: ICE "Operation Community Shield" Fact Sheet June 6, 2007
• Gang members in the United States: 800,000
• State and local police in the United States: 708,000
Under Los Angeles’s Special Order 40, if a police officer inquires into a gang member’s immigration status, he will face punishment from the department. This order is hindering the prevention of future crimes. The number of illegal alien gang members in this country outnumbers the amount of police officers we have in this country by over 100,000. Sanctuary laws violate the police force’s ability to effectively reduce crime, by getting prosecutions for minor offenses now that will prevent felonies at a later date. Gang related crimes in this country rose by 50% between 1999 and 2002 alone.
A study conducted by the California Department of Justice reported that in 1995, 60% of the 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal. The gang has a minimum of 20,000 members. They have been known to work hand in hand with the Mexican Mafia (a well known prison gang) on crimes including extortion, drive-by shootings, and drug related offenses. The gang continues to grow by appealing to youths from Central American countries and Mexico, most of whom are here illegally.
Accoriding to the Union-Tribune, an estimated 20% of gang members in San Diego County are illegal.
The leadership of the Columbia Lil’ Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.
Keep your eye on the border!
The largest threat to Americas living in border states are Mexican drug cartels. Every year, Americans are kidnapped and taken back to Mexico only to be tortured, raped, sold into slavery, kidnapped for ransome, or to die a gruesome death.
In the border town of Camargo, Mexico is known to be one of the handful of drug cartel training camps strewn across northern geographic Mexico. The camps conduct training similar to that of the military. The potential drug cartel members include everyone from deserters of the Mexican military to American teenagers. Officials can only estimate that the number of trainees has been in the hundreds. What are they trained for?
Simple: To kill.
The training camps are often used for a short time and then abandoned, possibly returned to at a much later date. Some are considered “mobile”, being conducted on private land (most times without the consent of the owners). They train on weapons including the AK-47, grenade launchers, and .50 caliber machine gun.
“Traffickers go to great lengths to prepare themselves for battle,” said a senior U.S. anti-narcotics official. “Part of that preparation is live firing ranges and combat training courses. ... And that's not something that we have seen before.”
In the past two years, at least 5,000 people have lost there lives due to the violence brought on by Mexican drug cartels.
In August of this year, warnings came through to El Paso, Texas regarding the targeting of locations on US soil by drug cartels.