More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says

One News Now.com ^ | 2/22/07 | Jim Brown

[alienken]

More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says Jim Brown

February 22, 2007

Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S. The group says that number is more than 15 percent of all the murders reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. and about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population.

Mike Cutler, a former senior special agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (the former INS), is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and an advisor to Family Security Matters (FSM). He says the high number of Americans being killed by illegal aliens is just part of the collateral damage that comes with tolerating illegal immigration.

"The military actually called for the BORTAC team, ... the elite unit of the Border Patrol, to be detailed to Iraq to help to secure the Iraqi border," Cutler notes. "Now, if our military can understand that Iraq's security depends in measure on the ability to protect its border against insurgents and terrorists, then why isn't our country similarly protecting our own borders?" he asks.

"We are now five and a half years, nearly, after 9/11, and yet our borders remain open," the Center for Immigration Studies fellow observes. "We have National Guardsmen assigned on the border, but it turns out they are unarmed," he points out. "Their rules of engagement are very simple: if armed intruders head your way, run in the other direction."

This situation would "almost be comical if it wasn't so tragic," Cutler asserts. "If our borders are wide open, this means that drugs, criminals, and terrorists are entering our country just as easily as the dishwashers," he says.

The report from FSM estimates that the 267,000 illegal aliens currently incarcerated in the nation are responsible for nearly 1,300,000 crimes, ranging from drug arrests to rape and murder. Such statistics, Cutler contends, debunk the claim that illegal immigration is a victimless crime. "Then we even have another problem," he adds, "and that's the Visa Waiver Program."

The federal government's Visa Waiver Program enables nationals of certain countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less without obtaining a visa. According to the U.S. State Department website, the waiver program was established in 1986 with the objective of "eliminating unnecessary barriers to travel," stimulating America's tourism industry, and allowing the government to focus consular resources in other areas.

Cutler says the U.S. retains the Visa Waiver Program because the nation's travel, tourism, and hospitality industries want America's borders wide open. In other words, the former INS official contends, the nation's security is being compromised in the name of trade.

[ckilmer]

I provided two links to federal stats. One said 19% and the other said 27%.

Also you’ll want to look at the pictures.

Up until six weeks ago — when the LA Times started running stories on the upsurge of crime in that town—the nationalities of the people listed for crimes was included with their photograph. Nine out of ten were of foreign nationality. And most of those were Mexican. The nationality box was removed after the LA Times ran their stories. Now they just have their pictures and leave you to guess the nationality of the person wanted for murder.

[ckilmer]

So the 6% is a better measure of the national proportion of crimes committed by aliens (legal and illegal).
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I don't know what the final number is. However, just so that you understand what you have just said--its appropriate to point out that if you take 6% and multiply it by the federaly provided total number of murders-- 16692 for 2005... you get 1001. If you multiply that by 4--which is the number of years the USA has been involved in Iraq--you get a number that is higher than the total US casualties in Iraq.

That was also the point of this article posted at FR.

[ckilmer]

Oreilly did a piece last night on the car killing of some teen age girls in Virginia by an illegal alien who had multiple previous arrests. The incident happened in norfolk. Norfolk is a sanctuary city. So the parents were told to be quiet about the matter by the city.

Oreilly said he is going to go after sanctuary cities--as he did with the pedophiles.

What Oreilly didn't mention is that the people bearing the brunt of the killing by illegal aliens are American blacks.

Consider this LA Times article posted at FR And recall that most of the murderers posted by the LAPD are illegals.

[BohDaThone]

I have no quarrel with your comment here — 6% of 16000 x 4 years = more people killed in the US by aliens than Americans killed in Iraq. I would quarrel with figures of 20-27%, which come from looking at federal prisons only, and not at the figures from the very same source that does tally aliens in all prisons.

[kellynla]

ping

[VOA]

bump

[Blood of Tyrants]

25 a day. 9125 per year. The equivalent of 757 full of passengers slamming into the ground every single week.

[F-117A]

Bump!

[Clintonfatigued]

This is absolutely deplorable and inexcusable. Border security is the biggest failure of the Bush Administration.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl