Posted on 02/03/2015 11:59:35 AM PST by jazusamo
(CNSNews.com) -- Speaking before the House Judiciary Committee on the issue of illegal immigration, Sheriff Paul Babeu, from Pinal County, Ariz., said up to 30 percent of the roughly 120,000 illegal aliens apprehended every year at the southwest U.S. border around his county have some kind of criminal record in the United States, adding that “the border is not more secure than ever” as President Barack Obama has stated.
He also said the situation is so lawless in some areas it is like a war-zone on American soil, where “local law enforcement is leading the effort to fight criminal syndicates from a foreign nation.”
According to Babeu, between 88,000 and 123,000 illegal aliens are apprehended each year at the Tuscon Sector, one of nine border patrol zones along the U.S.-Mexico border. Among those illegal aliens, between 17 and 30 percent have a criminal record in the country, Babeu testified.
“This clearly shows that the border is not more secure than ever,” he said.
Babeu also detailed the drug-running and smuggling operations that have become more and more prevalent in his county. In one day alone, law enforcement officials arrested 78 members of a notorious cartel and seized 108 illegal weapons, all during a single drug bust.
“[These are] not just handguns,” Babeu explained. “These are scoped rifles and AK-47s, two of which were traced back to the Fast and Furious operation. This is in my county.”
Illegal aliens who assist in drug-running efforts are also situated on mountaintops as “scouts,” equipped with binoculars and encrypted radios to avoid law enforcement, he said.
“When I tell a story like that, having served a tour in Iraq and commanded soldiers in the army, it almost appears I’m telling a story of some war-torn area,” Babeu said.
“This is on American soil. That’s what’s so disruptive, is the fact that here, as the sheriff, where our primary job is to answer 9-1-1 calls, how on Earth did we get here to this place that local law enforcement is leading the effort to fight criminal syndicates from a foreign nation on American soil?”
Babeu also described what he referred to as a “mass prison break,” in which hundreds of illegal alien criminals have been released from custody by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and sent back into the local community.
At one point in 2013, around 400 illegal alien criminals were set free from local jails and back into Pinal County. Another 30 to 50 illegal alien criminals are released every day, Babeu stated before Congress.
“These are the people that everybody, including the president, said are the bad actors,” he said, adding that those released people have criminal records that include rape, manslaughter, child molestation, financial crimes, armed robbery and assault against law enforcement.
When he asked for more information regarding these individuals and their criminal history, the federal government refused –and continues to refuse -- to give it to him, Babeu said.
“I, as the sheriff, who swore an oath to protect the people of my county, should have a right to that information,” Babeu said.
“I would urge this Congress to stand up as a lawmaking body, to enforce the laws, just as you expect me and every other law enforcement officer locally to do, and secure the border,” he added.
But Scott Walker thinks we don’t need a wall
“It’s all is about the 11 million [undocumented immigrants],” Walker said. “You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that. To me, I don’t know that you need any of that if you had a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.”
Walker added: “If people want to come here and work hard in this country, I don’t care if you come from Mexico or Canada or Ireland or Germany or South Africa or anywhere else. I want them
amen.
And another 30 percent are coming to start their criminal history in the US. If we don’t give them amnesty, they will be the criminals returning here in the future. Thanks goes to guys like Jeb Bush for watching out for our best interests.
This report is wrong, the percentage of criminal illegal aliens in this country is 100%!
The only surprise here is that the number is lower than I expected....
I would say if they are “illegal aliens” it is 100%.
And another 30% have diseases that we had formerly eradicated in our country
And the other 70% of illegals are just getting started ......
“These are scoped rifles and AK-47s, two of which were traced back to the Fast and Furious operation.”
The gift that keeps on giving. Never forget that the real reason of Fast and Furious was to give Obama a platform for new gun laws.
Bump
Yes, and Brian Terry paid with his life because of it. The below is in the article with his picture but I couldn't post it because it an AP photo.
"U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry was killed in a 2010 firefight near the Arizona-Mexico border between U.S. agents and five men who had sneaked into the country to rob marijuana smugglers. On Monday Nov. 18, 2013 a judge dismissed federal employees from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of the slain Border Patrol agent over the botched "Fast and Furious" gun operation."
Criminals? Well then, it shouldn’t be too much trouble getting them to illegally vote for Hillary in 2016!
WINNER!!
Correct, 100%.
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