Posted on 10/22/2005 5:07:51 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security recently revealed that arrests for child sex crimes during the first two years of Operation Predator have exceeded 6,000 and 85 percent of them are criminal immigrants.
Operation Predator is Immigration and Customs Enforcement's comprehensive initiative to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles, international sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and human traffickers. Operation Predator evolved out of ICEs mission to find and deport illegal aliens, particularly those with criminal records. The majority of the arrests under Operation Predator - roughly 85% - have involved foreign nationals in this country whose child sex crimes make them removable from the United States. By matching immigration databases with state Megans law directories, ICE agents have arrested more than 1,800 registered sex offenders.
Since Operation Predator began on July 9, 2003, the initiative has 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).
Operation Predator also has an important international component, as leads developed by domestic ICE offices are shared with ICE Attaché offices overseas and foreign law enforcement for action. To date, leads shared by ICE with foreign authorities have resulted in the arrest of roughly 1,000 individuals overseas.
With an average of nearly 250 child sex predator arrests per month, ICE's Operation Predator has emerged as one of most successful efforts ever launched to protect America's children. In enforcing the nation's immigration laws, ICE is systematically targeting those who pose the greatest threats, including criminal aliens who prey on our children.
Some recent ICE arrests involving criminal aliens who committed child sex crimes include Julio Cesar Rabago-Magana, a Mexican man who raped a four-year-old child in the basement of Mercado Central in Minneapolis, Minn. Rabago-Magana pleaded guilty Oct. 23, 2002 to first-degree criminal sexual conduct. After serving his criminal sentence, he was arrested by ICE agents at his St. Paul home on March 3, 2005, and deported six days later.
To date, more than 2,100 of these foreign-born predators have been removed from the United States to their home nations. As part of this process, ICE advises the host nation governments about the criminal histories of each sex predator it is deporting to their nations. ICE also issues Green Notices through Interpol in appropriate cases. The Green Notice provides information on career criminals who have committed, or are likely to commit, offenses in several countries.
Sources: US Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Security Institute
You sound like you have no problem with American sexual predators. The headline is a bogus attempt to focus on illegals as being 85% of the sexual child abusers.
"Oh, and by the way:
ATTENTION EL PRESIDENTE BUSH!
READ THIS AMIGO!"
Mr. Bush must condone this activity. Otherwise, he'd do something about it.
I didn't read it that way. I read it as it was meant. Perhaps this hits a little too close to home for you?
Not innuendo, I was asking a question.
Gee, 85% of 6000....hmm...carry the 3...use desktop calculator...
OK...so of the 6000, 5100 are "criminal illegals"?!
How many were "NON-Criminal Illegals", and by what contortion is that even possible?
Next question...of 6000 cases, is there a projection of how many cases there actually might be, like unreported projections, cases that might have been by Illegals, but either have not been confirmed or are being hidden under the rug, as it were?
But, I guess 5100 KNOWN cases of child molestation are ok as long as the price of lettuce is cheap, and those toilets get scrubbed, right?
Just "preying on children Americans won't"...my, that platitude DOES get old, now doesn't it?! How long have we been chafing at the sheer stupidity and arrogance out of thei Administration now?
Those of us who are against the Miers nomination have been SCREAMING about the level of condescention and outright hostility by this administration to Conservative issues...I guess no one was listening over the sounds of the...
GIANT sucking sound that the "Cult of Bush" has been making for a VERY long time...
"Kool-Aid now announces their brand new flavors, after extensive Washington test-marketing..."
I'm sure they'll sweep the nation...not!
They are all just "good-hearted people" who come here "to work." /sarc
How there is anyone left who still believes that stereotypical nonsense pushed by the media, politicians, La Raza, and people on FR is beyond me.
LOL!
He ALREADY served his sentence? That's ALL he got for raping a 4 year old child? They should have hung the SOB. We've got to revise our court system. He's probably back in the US by now.
I just had to look that up. Actually, it varies throughout Mexico at between 12-18 years of age. In the US, it varies between 14-18 years of age.
Actually, it is significant. Many child abusers go on legal trips to places where they can procure children for their perversions. So 15% of the sickos caught in Operation Predator were probably here on a tourist or student visa, legally.
That 85% of them were even in this country illegally says a lot. President Bush has these life-threatening rapes of children to answer for. Child rape, terrorism, the ruination of the middle class (here in So CAL): there are very good reasons to stop criminal entry.
Cheap labor from illegals kills our working poor.
Free (HA ha ha ha ha) services for illegals kills our middle class.
Not controlling who comes in across the border risks our national security.
It also risks our national health. Think avian flu (or any other disease). What if it started to become an epidemic here? We would patrol the airports diligently, but wink at the illegals crossing into AZ.
Public safety is at risk with them on our roads.
And now we see that we are putting our children at grave risk having these pedophiles walking around our public parks.
And how is President Bush's argument that our economy needs underpaid workers who have no legal protections any different from the South insisting that their economy needs slavery, anyway?
Late or not, all are welcome at the table. We need to spread the word of just how DANGEROUS all this pro-Illegal Infiltrator stuff really is to all of America! It is the hubris of power and priviledge that completely controls the seat of power in America!
...It also risks our national health. Think avian flu (or any other disease). What if it started to become an epidemic here? We would patrol the airports diligently, but wink at the illegals crossing into AZ.
Yup....just think how effective bioterrorism will be thanks to the Open Borders Lobby...all for the sake of cheap lettuce!
And how is President Bush's argument that our economy needs underpaid workers who have no legal protections any different from the South insisting that their economy needs slavery, anyway?
SSSSHHHHHH!
The "Cult of Bush" will be all over you for such heresy!
Just swallow the "Kool-Aid" and be a nice little BuSheep...they know so much better than us "sexist/racist/eeee-litists", so they should tell us what to do, and we just BOHICA...isn't that the "Compassionate Country Club" way?
You're right! He has been "deported", but there's absolutely nothing to keep this piece of garbage from strolling right back over the Mexican border and continuing to do what he apparently does best - molest children.
The task force was targeting foreign nationals who have been charged with sex crimes. The headline of the article makes it seems as though the immigrant population as a whole were targets making the 85% figure apply to all immigrants.
The article does not say that 85% of illegal immigrants have been charged with sex crimes. It is saying of those immigrants who have been charged with sex crimes 85% of those have been illegal immigrants.
In any case lock em up till they can be deported.
They are providing jobs for Americans ....... I wish it wasn't just prison guards!
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