Posted on 11/11/2006 2:59:31 PM PST by radar101
Whatever happened to investigative journalism? As a young White House staffer in 1974, I saw it bring down a president. In the past month, our lazy journalistic watchdogs couldn't even sniff out the main story between two would-be governors.
Granted, Bill Ritter's victory over Bob Beauprez was so broad and deep that no great difference ultimately resulted from the October storm over plea bargains and leaks. Still, that episode is worth reviewing, not as a rehash of the campaign, but as a case study in media attitudes.
You remember the endless stories about a federal agent with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who allegedly gave the Beauprez campaign information on a criminal alien who had benefited from a plea bargain allowed by Ritter when he was district attorney. The media compliantly played up the Democrat's attack on his Republican opponent for using the information in an ad. And they had a field day with the FBI leak investigation.
This was grossly hypocritical, because if the leak had come to them, they would have both used it and protected their source. It also revealed an odd lack of interest in the information itself and its relevance to the former district attorney's qualifications for higher office. Why weren't the media energetically digging up this seamy stuff on their own?
Instead of joining one side's "shoot the messenger" ploy against the other, a truly vigilant press would have been (and still should be) probing what other skeletons are buried in the data on illegal alien crime. Try these questions for starters:
What percentage of arrests for DUI offenses in 2005 were illegal aliens? Recall that Justin Goodman of Thornton was killed in 2004 on his motorcycle by an illegal alien driver who had six prior DUI and other driving violations in Boulder and Adams counties. The man had never been referred to ICE for deportation.
Does the Denver city attorney's standing policy of not asking questions in court about the legitimacy of Mexican driver's licenses presented by defendants have any consequences for the law-abiding citizens of Denver? Recall that the man who killed police officer Donnie Young had used an invalid Mexican driver's license to avoid jail in Denver municipal court only three weeks before the slaying.
Why is it that a full year after the Colorado attorney general stated that one- quarter of Colorado's outstanding fugitive homicide warrants are for people who have fled to Mexico, no newspaper has asked how many of the individuals named in the warrants were illegal aliens with prior arrests? (In Los Angeles County, there are more than 400 such fugitive warrants.)
How are sanctuary cities like Durango, Boulder and Denver responding to SB 90, the new state law passed in 2006 to outlaw sanctuary cities? What is ICE doing to respond to SB 90?
If Denver received federal reimbursement for the incarceration of more than 1,100 illegal aliens in 2004, why were only 175 deported when they finished their terms? What subsequent crimes did the other 925 criminal aliens commit?
After the murder of officer Donnie Young in May 2005, the Denver ICE office renewed its routine surveys of the Denver jail population to identify illegal aliens subject to deportation. How many criminal aliens have actually been deported out of the Denver jail since then, compared to prior years when such checks were not being made?
Investigative journalism on these questions would require the cooperation of law enforcement, it's true. But reporters routinely tap those sources (and protect their identities) when pursuing a story. After all, "the public has a right to know."
And don't we also have a right to know the criminal histories of illegal aliens, the consequences of plea bargaining, and the social cost of the special status afforded illegals by the sanctuary policies in Denver and other cities?
John Andrews is a fellow of the Claremont Institute and former president of the Colorado Senate.
The worst part is, he was driving an official construction company van who must be his employer. We are going to make that company pay some $$$ and make sure the state knows about their employment practices.
I'm sorry to jear about your grandson. I hope they sue that company for all they can. Make them think twice about hiring illegals.
"The worst part is, he was driving an official construction company van who must be his employer. We are going to make that company pay some $$$ and make sure the state knows about their employment practices."
I am very sorry to hear about your family's injuries, having said that, if you can get a good lawyer you've just been "hit" by the lottery.
We do know one-third of our prison population is composed of illegal aliens.
i'm with you.
There are a lot of libs masquerading on this site.
Yes, its really picked up in the last couple of weeks. And yes, more subtle than it used to be. We need to recalibrate the troll alarm settings.
MSM, bought and paid for by the OBL.
Thanks for that link. UNBELIEVABLE!
Are we allowed to go back to older articles and add the keyword, "crimaliens", so we can have them in one place?
Some GOOD BACKGROUND: Crimaliens
Lots of crimes here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623720/posts
May 1st Protest - "Bite the hand that feeds you" Day
What would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime.
On the negative side, the price of a pound of tomatoes might go up from $0.79 to $0.80. That is unless you have a garden. But I'm guessing that the Mexican drug lords are not taking May 1st off. Neither will the 11,000 illegal invaders that pour over our border every other day of the year. It is a safe bet that the U.S. Border Patrol will have a very busy "Nothing Gringo Day."
Since September 11th, it remains true that OBL is the greatest threat to America. I will leave it to the reader to decide if the greatest threat is Osama bin Laden or the Open Borders Lobby. The emerging cheap labor "ruling class" in America is the strongest supporter of amnesty for illegals. Their anti-American "new servant class" has chosen to boycott them; the very definition of irony. On May 1st, Primero de Mayo, Americans will observe, as illegal immigrants celebrate, "Bite the Hand That Feeds You Day."
http://www.kingforcongress.com/clippings/desk-immigration4-06.htm
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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10663
While the murder rate among illegal aliens in America is unknown, we do have fair estimates of how many illegal migrants are here, and what countries they came from. The murder rates in most of these countries are known and published by the United Nations (which means the figures must be correct). If one then simply assumes that each nationality of alien commits murder at the same rate in America as it would in its homeland, it is then possible to arrive at an estimate of the probable rate of murder by illegal aliens in America.
Put more plainly, I assumed that 3,871,912 Mexicans in America kill at the same rate as 3,871,912 Mexicans in Mexico, then did the same for 336,717 Salvadorans, 77,000 Brazilians, 226,886 Chinese and 39 other categories of illegal alienas totaled in a Census Bureau estimate of the illegal alien population in 2000. The reports total figure was that 8.7 million illegal aliens are in our country. It should be noted that this estimate would be considered low by many sources. But I tried to be as conservative as possible with all figures. My estimate is therefore low, I believe.
Using the above method, I estimated that illegal aliens kill 1,480 people in America every year. This assumes that the 8.7 million illegal aliens in America have a population age structure and a sex ratio similar to that of their homelands. Most murders are committed by young males. If the illegal population in America is skewed toward young males, as most believe, the murder total is actually much higher. Comparing the age structure of the population of illegal aliens that applied for amnesty during the Reagan administration (according a GAO report) to the current age structure of the population of Mexico (according to the US Census Bureau), I found that people aged 22 to 45 years old were overrepresented in the amnesty pool. Adjusting the murder rate using FBI homicide perpetrator age-cohort information for the United States (see why you need to pay attention in math class, kids?), the total is more likely to be 1,806 murders per year.
Given that 16,528 murders were committed in the entire United States in 2004, this estimateif correctwould mean that illegal aliens (3% of the population in the Census Bureau Estimate used in this analysis) commit between 11% and 15% of all the murders in the United States each year. The murder rate for the illegal alien population in this model, 20 to 29 homicides per year per 100,000 persons, would thus be 400% to 500% the rate of the combined native-born and legal immigrant populations.
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From Mike Cutler, former INS agent who testifies before congress on immigration
"It is currently estimated that some 30% of the federal inmate population is comprised of convicts who are identified as being "foreign born." When I was assigned to the Unified Intelligence Division of DEA in New York from 1988 to 1992 I compiled statistics concerning the nature of the defendants who were arrested by DEA and the DEA Task Force in New York. It was estimated that some 60% of the defendants arrested in New York City were identified as being "foreign born" while 30% of the defendants arrested nationwide were identified as being "foreign born." Those numbers remained constant for several years afterwards and I believe they would not be much different today.
Additionally, I have heard that some 90% of the arrest warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for aliens. I believe that it would not be hard to show that more than 3,000 murders per year can be attributed to illegal aliens in our country."
"Thanks for that link. UNBELIEVABLE!"
I'll see your unbelievable and raise you a couple of chips.
Prepare yourself.
Click over to post #149 on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714543/posts
Actually, that's a good post with useful links, but go the last step:
Draw a couple of deep breaths and click "View Replies".
A perusal of the whole thread is most illuminating (and shocking)
A list worth repeating:
They're busy doing other stuff. Stories from the past 5 weeks:
Police Capture Illegal Immigrant Accused of Molesting 8-Year-Old
Illegal Immigrant Wanted for Sexual Assault of 14-Year-Old
Illegal Immigrant Accused of Raping Mentally Handicapped Girl
Illegal Immigrant Raped Women at Gas Station
Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Attempting to Rape 13-Year-Old
Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Rape of Newlywed
Illegal Charged with Indecency with a Minor Before Killing Cop
Jamaican Immigrant Sentenced for Rape of 13-Year-Old
Possibly HIV Positive Illegal Immigrant Raped 5-Year-Old
Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty to Wisconsin Rape
Illegal Immigrant Accused of Molesting 12-Year-Old Boy
Illegal Immigrant Admits Molesting 6-Year-Old
Illegal Immigrant Suspected in Rapes and Dozens of Sexual Assaults
Illegal Immigrant Impregnates 14-Year-Old
13-Year-Old Allegedly Raped by 5 Men in New Jersey
Illegal Immigrant Sentenced for Molesting 8-Year-Old
Illegal Immigrant Accused of Raping Several Children
Illegal Immigrant Janitor Suspected of Raping 14-Year-Old Student
Source: readthis.wordpress.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714543/posts
According to some posters victims of these "workers" deserve what they get.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737403/posts
We need more of these criminals, and Bush will deliover them.
Don't piss off an illegal......he might kill you!
ping
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