Read the full report at:
http://ag.ca.gov/wanted/info.php
"Violent and property crime rates have dropped 34 percent and 26 percent respectively since 1994. At the same time, the illegal immigrant population doubled to an estimated 12 million, according to the study, called the Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation."
Let's have a little science lesson on the use and misuse of statistics. Let's say the number of male restroom visits at New York Yankees home games has gone down 34 percent since 1994. Let's add to that a statistic that the number of males attending Yankee's home games, since 1994, has seen an increase in how many of those males are 50 years old. From those numbers can we say the 50-year-old-males attending Yankee home games DO NOT make up a larger % of the average male restroom visitor at those games?
No, we can't. Because the numbers cited don't tell us (a)the total number of male restroom visitors and (b)the % of that total represented by 50-year-old-males, either in the past or now.
That is also the type of thing that the numbers cited about crime and "illegal immigration" don't tell us. But, other numbers do tell us something about crime and illegal immigration, and that is the number of U.S. state and federal prisoners and the % of that number represented by illegal immigrants.
That percentage (illegal immigrants convicted of crimes and serving time), compared to total convictions (whether or not that total is less) is up in every state and up by more than the percentage of the increase of illegal immigration.
Which suggests, that in the framework of generally lower crime rates, those contributing to whatever rate of crime we now have, represent an increase in the numbers and percentages of the illegal immigrants, among the criminals we are currently arresting and convicting. It also suggests that without illegal immigration, the drop in crime would have been/would be even more spectacular than decades past.
An illegal immigrant has by definition violated the law. 100% of illegal immigrants commit crime.
As a nine year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol, I found this study to be totally ridiculous. The study was conducted by a group whose stated purpose is "to educate Amercians about the benefits of immigration." I wonder why these groups always refuse to make a distinction between legal and illegal immigration, and why they completely ignore the devastating effects of illegal alien crime.
My two years of experience in the Border Patrol Criminal Alien Program (BORCAP), and the results of our work completely refute everything in this so called study. Our five man unit prosecuted approximately 100 to 150 CRIMINAL aliens each month. These were illegal aliens that were arrested for other crimes by local law enforcement agencies. This was just for our station alone. Can you imagine if every Border Patrol station had a BORCAP Unit, and if every jail and prison in the United States had immigration agents screening the inmates? In my personal statistics, approximately one out of every three inmates that I interviewed was an illegal alien.
I have provided a link to the Cameron County Sheriff's Department in South Texas (Brownsville, Harlingen, South Padre Island area). Here you will see the photos, charges, and other information about the inmates. If the inmates have the words, "Hold for BORCAP, "Immigration Detainer," or similar wording in their charges, then they are illegal aliens. There were so many new inmates coming in each day that we couldn't even interview the MAJORITY of the inmate population!
I just wanted the public to see how many criminal aliens could be found in just ONE detention facility. The truth is out there...
http://www.co.cameron.tx.us/eagle/HTML/Inmates/ICURRENT.HTM
Wow less than 5% of the population is NOT responsible for MOST of the crime? What an amazing statistic!