FACT: Illegal Immigrants and Crime
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Study: Illegal Immigrants and Crime
New data from the IPC, the Immigration Policy Law Center, tries to make a case that the immigration crime rate and also the incarceration rate are lower than those of the native born population. --- Depending on what this study means by "Immigrant," I don't doubt this at all. This is because I have come to know what people may mean by this term. My personal definition of "immigrant" is a foreigner who goes to live in another country legally. Many use the term including illegal immigrants in the mix. And that's what this particular study seems to do.
The study says that as the illegal immigrant population doubled since 1994, the national violent crime rate has gone down by 34.2% and property crime has gone down by 26.4%. (1)
I don't doubt this point. The problem, however, is that the study is talking about the national U.S. crime rate and not separating the population into its categories such as immigration status, legal and illegal.
The study shows graphs of incarceration rates. According to the statistics, "immigrants" or the "foreign born" have lower crime and incarceration rates than natural born Americans. Again, this is not doubtful at all. --- But the problem with this study is that in its surveys of the crime and incarceration rates, it just talks about foreigners. It doesn't talk about the crime rate in the illegal immigrant population.
Since the study doesn't divide the immigration population into the two necessary categories (legal and illegal immigrants) it isn't useful in the illegal immigration debate, although some would like to use it to make a point, and it does have it's uses.
If you want to read this study go see The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) did a survey of 55,322 incarcerated illegal immigrants which was released on May 9, 2005 which focused on how many times they were arrested, why they were arrested, and in which states they were arrested. (2)
The study's findings:
All together, they were arrested a total of 459,614 times, an average of eight times per illegal immigrant.
97% of them had more than one arrest.
38% were arrested 2 – 5 times.
32% were arrested 6 – 10 times.
26% were arrested 11 – more times.
89% of these arrests happened after 1990.
What they were arrested for:
These illegal immigrant criminals committed a total of 700,000 crimes.
24% were drug offences.
21% were immigration crimes.
15% were for any sort of theft.
28% traffic violations and fraud.
80% of these arrests were in 3 states:
California: 58%
Texas: 14%
Arizona: 8%
To read this study go see Information on certain Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States
According to another government report, many "aliens" use identity theft to obtain fake documents to be able to enter the U.S. for job opportunities (thus the report indicates it is talking about illegal immigrants). From 1999 – 2001, the INS has intercepted 100,000 falsified documents a year. The report also says that half of them were alien registration and border crossing cards. (3)
In 1986 the hiring of illegal immigrants, knowingly, was criminalized by the Immigration Reform and Control Act. GAO adds that employers are required to verify the immigration status. It also concludes, " The availability of jobs is one of the primary magnets attracting illegal aliens to the United States. Immigration experts believe that as long as opportunities for employment exist, the incentive to enter the United States illegally will persist and efforts at the U.S. borders to prevent illegal entry will be undermined." (4)
Many illegal immigrants use fraudulent papers to find work in the United States. From October 1996 to May 1998, authorities found that 50,000 illegal aliens used 78,000 falsified documents to find work. (5)
The government found that:
60% of those falsified documents were INS documents.
36% were Social Security cards.
4% were for driver's licenses and other documents. (6)
One of the Conspirators of the 1993 World Trade Center terrorist attack entered the United States, using the same sort of documents used by illegal aliens. Thus this issue is also tied to terrorism, (7)
According to study done by the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta Georgia says that there are 240,000 sex offenders that are illegal immigrants. 1,500 of these cases were serial rapes, serial murders, sexual murders, and child molestations. (8)
The report says that the majority of these cases were in California, Texas, New Jersey, New York, and Florida. (9)
Of the 1,500 cases:
35% were child molestations.
24% were rapes.
41% were sexual homicides and serial murders.
The victims of child molestation by illegal immigrants were:
47% were Hispanics
36% were Caucasian
8% were Asiatic
6% were African-American
3% were other than.
30% of the victims were illegal immigrants as well. (10)
The study says that the illegal immigrant predators had an average of 4 victims. 63% of them were deported before. And although a car was used in 78% of these cases, they were owned by the them in only in 54% of these cases. (11)
It should also be noted that the study estimates that 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders cross the border every day. It estimates that these 1,500 illegal immigrant predators 960,000 in the 88 months that it was conducted. (12)
The statistics were reported to have been ignored by the media. (13)
A report done by Family Security Matters estimates that an average of 2,158 homicides are committed by illegal aliens annually which accounts for more than 15% of murders reported to the FBI. --- The report says that the 267,000 incarcerated illegal immigrants are responsible for 1,300,000 crimes such as murder, drugs and rape. (14)
Out of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, it is believed that 5.4% of them are fugitives. But apparently the U.S. government has lost track of 600,000 of them. --- This estimate was done by the Department of Homeland Security. (15)
Between October 2000 and September 2005, 98% of illegal immigrants that were arrested were not prosecuted. 5.2 million of them were taken to the Rio Grande and it is believed that they attempted to return to the United States. --- In 2005, less than 3% of the 1.17 million illegal aliens arrested that year were prosecuted. (16)
I want to conclude by saying that I realize that not all illegal immigrants are dangerous. However, I believe that this research shows a considerable crime rate in the illegal population. I also realize that many native born Americans and legal immigrants commit crimes as well. But I would also like to emphasize that the difference between crimes committed by legal immigrants/natural born Americans and illegal immigrants is that the illegals had no right to be in the country. If the U.S. government had done its duty and enforced the law then these crimes would never have happened. So I hold pour government responsible for every single murder, rape, theft etc., committed by illegal immigrants. Something has to be done, and soon.
SOURCES:
1. The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation, http://www.ailf.org/ipc/special_report/sr_022107.pdf
2. Information on certain Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05646r.pdf
3. Identity Fraud: Prevalence and Links to Alien Illegal Activities, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02830t.pdf
4. Ibid
5. Ibid
6. Ibid
7. Ibid
8. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United States, http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html#Illegals
9. Ibid
10. Ibid
11. Ibid
12. Ibid
13. Illegal Alien Sex Fiends, http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/selepak012207.htm
14. More Americans Killed by illegal aliens than Iraq War, study says, http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/more_americans_killed_by_illeg.php
15. U.S. can't account for 600,000 fugitives, http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2982135
16. 98% of Illegals Arrested Were not prosecuted, http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/9/125821.shtml
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