Posted on 05/02/2007 12:30:09 PM PDT by liberty1971
This year, as ever, campuses nationwide are sponsoring or supporting May Day demonstrations on behalf of immigrants in America who may or may not be here legally. Google the phrase “campus May Day demonstrations” and we will get 32,400,000 entries.
Federal officials charged with enforcing U. S. immigration law, meanwhile, are sending up their own distress signals. “Immigration-related felony cases are swamping federal courts along the Southwest border, forcing judges to handle hundreds more cases than their peers elsewhere,” Jennifer Talhem of the Associated Press reports. “Judges in the five, mostly rural judicial districts on the border carry the heaviest felony caseloads in the nation.”
“Each judge in New Mexico, which ranked first, handled an average of 397 felony cases last year, compared with the national average of 84.” That comes to more than one a day.
The White House response can be summed up in a word—denial. “Homeland security officials say the increased security is working,” Talhelm reports. “In Yuma, President Bush said that the number of people apprehended for crossing the southern border into the United States has declined by nearly 30 percent this year.”
“Court officials, however, say they are in crisis mode trying to deal with the defendants.” Small wonder, in a study of 55,322 illegal aliens that it completed two years ago, the U. S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that each of their subjects averaged out to eight arrests apiece.
The GAO is a research arm of the U. S. Congress. “Almost all of these illegal aliens were arrested for more than one offense,” according to Richard Stana, then-director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at the GAO. “Slightly more than half of the 55,322 illegal aliens had between 2 and 10 offenses.”
o “About 45 percent of all offenses were drug or immigration offenses.”
o “About 15 percent were property-related offenses such as burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and property damage.
o “About 12 percent were for violent offenses such as murder, robbery, assault, and sex-related crimes.
o “The balance was for such other offenses as traffic violations, including driving under the influence; fraud—including forgery and counterfeiting; weapons violations; and obstruction of justice.
o “Eighty percent of all arrests occurred in three states—California, Texas, and Arizona. Specifically, about 58 percent of all arrests occurred in California, 14 percent in Texas, and 8 percent in Arizona.”
In other news, the film Waitress opened to rave reviews. It is the final credit of actress-writer-director Adrienne Shelly, who was killed last year by an illegal alien working as an undocumented construction worker.
The 40-year-old Queens native left behind a grieving husband and three-year-old daughter.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
Yeah, it is an issue and there can be no denial IMO.
We are becoming infested with illegal criminals.
Oh, there can be denial... from the current crop of frontrunner GOP candidates (EXCEPT Hunter) as well as Jorge Boosh.
And for Dims, they are in denial about pretty much everything.
But we are told it is “wrong” (poltically incorrect) to call them criminals.
I think the writing is on the wall. I don’t like to see it since most of those illegals are just nice family people, but I think they are going to become targets on a pressured economy.
Legal immigration would prune out criminals seeking to continue their crime sprees in America.
The underground economy has permitted their border crossing and safe harbor. We are stuck with this problem as long as there is tolerance for illegal immigration.
In California, everybody knows what is going on, they may not want to acknowledge it because of their politics at times, but they KNOW.
May Day is Communist day in all parts of the world (especially in the EU) except for the United States. But now the Communist seem to have taken their day on our soil.
Don't call them CRIMINALS, call them personally challenged at being lawful. That should do it!
If these politicos know and still allow this evil to happen, they are traitors to this country.
I know, I know... I’m preaching to the converted... :-)
They are comfortable and unless these have noisy relentless folks at their backsides demanding a change, they have no inspiration to move on anything.
Round them up, send them home, and build a wall to keep them there. It can be done, if we’d just have the political will to do so.
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