GO HOME!!!
Posted on 06/18/2008 3:55:09 AM PDT by raybbr
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A wave of burglaries is spreading across the Washington area, and police say illegal immigrants, hit by police crackdowns and the drop in new construction, are likely playing a key role.
“The immigrant community is at a tipping point,” said Montgomery County police community liaison Officer Luis Hurtado. “The poor economy is pushing more immigrants to turn to crime.”
In the first five months of this year, burglaries climbed 10 to 20 percent in many jurisdictions.
The District of Columbia had the greatest increase, jumping 20 percent from 1,370 in the first five months of 2007 to 1,638 for the same period this year. Montgomery County police said they’ve averaged 288 burglaries a month for the first five months of this year, up 23 per month, or nearly 10 percent, from last year.
Alexandria stood out as the only jurisdiction showing a significant decline — 33 percent — but police couldn’t explain the drop.
And many more burglaries in which illegal immigrants themselves are the victims have likely gone unreported; illegals often shy away from police, whom they fear may arrest them for violating immigration laws, community activists said.
Last week, about 100 residents from the massive Latino community in Takoma/Langley Park, which straddles the Prince George’s-Montgomery County line, met with police officials from both counties. They demanded action for what they described as a neighborhood under siege.
In recent weeks, a shopkeeper was shot to death and a police officer killed a man all within a one-block radius at the center of the community. But it’s the unreported crimes that have residents most concerned, and improved relations with police are needed to fight back, said Mario Quiroz, spokesman for immigrant advocacy group CASA de Maryland.
Meanwhile, four illegal immigrants from Virginia and Maryland who work in construction told The Examiner there are fewer jobs available now that housing starts have fallen. Expanded efforts by area officials to check immigration status and punish employers who fail to verify employee status have ended much of
the migratory cycle that carried illegals from job to job around the region.
Crime experts have mixed opinions on the role illegal immigrants play when it comes to breaking the law. Criminologists either believe illegals are more prone to criminal behavior because they’ve already broken one law upon entering the country, or they will more likely keep their hands clean, fearing deportation.
Eric Rasmusen, an economist at Indiana University, studied a 2005 report to Congress on foreigners held in federal and state prisons to find that illegal immigrants commit 21 percent of crimes in the United States, costing the U.S. more than $84 billion.
But William Chambliss, a criminologist at American University, disagrees: “It’s always easy and nice to say there’s a connection between illegal immigrants and crime ... but there’s little to no empirical evidence to show that.”
Chambliss said there is a connection, however, between the failing economy and the rise in burglaries “that’s not true of other, more violent crimes.”
Making matters worse is that there are now many more items in people’s homes — iPods and laptops, for example — that are easier to steal than there were a decade ago.
At the end of the day, though, a life of crime comes with little profit. At best, Chambliss said, a burglar can get 10 percent of the value on a stolen item.
I'd say neither. But there is certainly a statistical association between illegals and crime whether the economy is good or not, looking at all the petty crime reported and not reported in Herndon, VA.
Just doing the burglaries Americans won’t do.
Caca! They were criminals to start with.
“The poor economy is pushing more immigrants to turn to crime.”
Caca! They were criminals to start with
Exactly, We were told just last year these were good people just trying to better themselves..now they are “forced” to break the law once again.
LLS
“...Montgomery County police community liaison Officer Luis Hurtado. “The poor economy is pushing more immigrants to turn to crime.”
Typical liberal response. And more proof that the “police” leadership in liberal cities echo the left-wing mantra of the Marxists who run these liberal utopias.
For all the talk of how illegal immigrants are the backbone of the community, they are working hard to build a better life, and are nothing but a benefit to our society, a remark like this by a police officer is completely unremarkable. How fine and upstanding can this community be if they are one paycheck away from committing buglaries?
The truth, of course, is that this community is not a benefit to our society.
Eric Rasmusen, an economist at Indiana University, studied a 2005 report to Congress on foreigners held in federal and state prisons to find that illegal immigrants commit 21 percent of crimes in the United States, costing the U.S. more than $84 billion.
But William Chambliss, a criminologist at American University, disagrees: “It’s always easy and nice to say there’s a connection between illegal immigrants and crime ... but there’s little to no empirical evidence to show that.”
I don't know, Mr. Chambliss. It looks like Mr. Rasmusen has a heck of a data point there. If you accept the upper figure of 20 Million illegal immigrants in this country, that still means they are over-represented as criminals by a factor of three-to-one. Why do we choose to have such people in our country? And make no mistake, we choose to do so. The only reason they are here is because we choose to tolerate it.
But now that we have an economic downturn, and there are fewer jobs that Americans won't do, do we still need illegal immigration?
GO HOME!!!
Jeez' that's puzzling. Only thing to do now is to keep your doors unlocked and let them take what they need. The DBM pointed out during the Katrina aftermath in NOLA that stealing's not stealing if it's done for survival.
I have been saying this for years. Treating these invaders as guests has only emboldened them to the point where they feel entitled to whatever we have.
This is why the “rule of law” is so important and must be followed by all Americans. They broke the law by coming here illegally, so why should they respect it now. They bring poverty, debt, disease, and a disregard for America’s traditions, values, and history.
Maybe they will start breaking into the homes of lowlife scumbag members of congress?
It MUST stop!
My wife and I recently watched “Waitress,” a clever and sweet little film written and directed by Adrienne Shelly. Shelly was A VERY talented lady who also played a supporting role.
She was senselessly MURDERED in her NY apartment on November 1, 2006. Her body was found hanging by a sheet from a shower rod – by her husband. She was 40 and left behind a 3 year-old daughter who will never know her real mother.
A 19 YEAR OLD ECUADORIAN — AN ILLEGAL WHO SHOULD NEVER HAVE EVEN BEEN IN THE COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE (THANK YOU CLINTON AND BUSH) — CONFESSED TO HER MURDER.
They are killing 25 of us every day.
IT WILL STOP WHEN THE MORONS IN WASHINGTON GET AS SERIOUS ABOUT THE ILLEGAL INVASION AS THEY ARE ABOUT HARASSING NATIVE BORN CITIZENS AT THE AIRPORTS.
(AND, YES, I INTENDED TO SHOUT BECAUSE I’M MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS CRAP!)
How about you???
Do you suppose this madness might have ended years ago if one of Bush’s daughters had been a victim of one of the millions of illegals he’s allowed in here to kill the rest of us?
Of course, any illegal attempting to do so would most likely be taken out by her SS detail.
I’ve been a regular at local congressional town hall meetings for a few dozen years and noted that starting around 10 years ago, the majority of those there were angry that nothing was being done about the illegal invasion.
Why are we still waiting for the clowns in Malfunction Junction – who can produce convoluted legislative proposals to line their pockets or deliver pork back home and ram it through in the dark of night – to secure our national borders?
Perhaps YOU should get on over to those pre-election public meetings and raise some serious hell – before YOU die at the hands of someone who ought not even BE HERE!
We have enough indigenous criminals. WE SURE AS HELL DON’T NEED TO IMPORT MORE.
Hey, Bozo, they are criminals just by the way they got here! They are just now branching out!
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Good. Since Washington has the highest percentage of people encouraging illegal immigration - i.e. Washington politicians - then that city should suffer the unpleasant consequences.
“...Montgomery County police community liaison Officer Luis Hurtado. “The poor economy is pushing more immigrants to turn to crime.”
Now the police are more concerned about the criminals than the people burglarized? Suppose a Montgomery County citizen gets shot during a burglary.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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