Oh, I do believe it. I was just being facetious about the propaganda being spread by this MALDEF attorney on national TV -- said propaganda is never challenged very well. I haven't seen many, if any, iron bars here in the midwest, but I think there are many people, especially around the meat packing towns who might wish they had them. In fact, I had a rental house near one of those towns occupied by a little old lady about 65 years old and the house was broken into about 2:00 a.m. one morning by two illegal aliens (presumably illegal, or at least they were criminal legal immigrants). Anyway, the only words of English they apparently knew was "I sue, I sue" which was screamed after her German Shepherd made a late night snack out of one their hands.
I spent a week in Anahiem a few years ago and walked from the Disneyland hotel to the convention center every day and there were bars on the doors and windows in that area then -- don't know if that was due to illegal immigration crime or just general crime. What amazed me during those morning/afternoon walks were the number of "gentlemen" who would stop his vehicle right in the middle of traffic apparently for no other purpose than to beat his wife/girlfriend. I saw at least 3 instances of that in one week.