Posted on 11/28/2006 3:07:46 AM PST by Irisshlass
WASHINGTON – While the military "quagmire" in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups have produced estimates based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863. Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to the Department of Defense.
But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
While no one – in or out of government – tracks traffic all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.
A report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Study found 20 percent of fatal accidents involve at least one driver who lacks a valid license. In California, another study showed that those who have never held a valid license are about five times more likely to be involved in a fatal road accident than licensed drivers.
Statistically, that makes them an even greater danger on the road than drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked – and nearly as dangerous as drunk drivers.
King also reports eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day – a total of 2,920 annually.
Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.
As the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. increases, so does the number of American victims.
According to Edwin Rubenstien, president of ESR Research Economic Consultants, in Indianapolis in 1980, federal and state correctional facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in all U.S. jails and prisons.
While the federal government doesn't track illegal alien murders, illegal alien rapes or illegal alien drunk driving deaths, it has studied illegal aliens incarcerated in U.S. prisons.
In April 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following:
The 55,322 illegal aliens studied represented a total of 459,614 arrests – some eight arrests per illegal alien; Their arrests represented a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses – some 13 offenses per illegal alien; 36 percent had been arrested at least five times before. "While the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who work hard and are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families, (something you or I would probably do if we were in their place), it is also a fact that a disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals and sexual predators," states Peter Wagner, author of a new report called "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration." "That is part of the dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the 'good' in we get the 'bad' along with them. The question is, how much 'bad' is acceptable and at what price?"
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Did they run you off the Miami thread?
On Thanksgiving nite a marine on leave and his date were killed when an illegal slammed into their car at a stoplight. The guy had four times the legal limit and he had been cited just months earlier for drunk driving and had refused a breathalyzer test. Still, the guy held onto his license and then went out and killed two people only 5 miles from the original citation. The bigger question is, why was this guy able to obtain a driver's license to begin with????
They murder the same 12 Americans daily?
DAMN THEM! DAMN THEM TO HELLLLLL!
On Thanksgiving nite a marine on leave and his date were killed when an illegal slammed into their car at a stoplight.
I'm so sorry to hear that..I'll pray for them.
You wish.
Tancredo's remarks on Miami proves that to be false.
Since your views are out of step with the majority of Americans, you are the one who needs to worry about your conscience.
Cool. Thanx for explaining.
Interesting. Makes sense. And, thank you for posting.
"to worry about your conscience."
LOL! You must live in a box.
To the contrary, through out my life, I have had extensive experience living and working in close proximity to hispanics and illegals. Likely more than you.
OTOH, I have also lived where there are no illegals, hispanics, blacks, or asians. There, all the crime is committed by whites. All the social services are utilized by whites. Based on the crime and poverty stats there, and your logic, we should consider deporting whites
Also, you need to consider that males have a much higher crime rate than females. While we see a rise in female illegal immigration, the illegal population still has a higher ratio of male to females than the general population.
Illegal hispanics are more likely to be a crime victim than hispanics who are more likely to be a victim than whites.
It is also well known that illegals are less likely to report crime or come forward with information on crime because they fear they will be deported.
BTW, here's a clip from an article (Daily Mail, FWIW) posted earlier today and citing 2005 US prisoner stats:
The numbers are from the annual report from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The report breaks down inmate populations for state and federal prisons and local jails.
Racial disparities among prisoners persist. In the 25-29 age group, 8.1 per cent of black men - about one in 13 - are incarcerated, compared with 2.6 per cent of Hispanic men and 1.1 per cent of white men. And it's not much different among women. By the end of 2005, black women were more than twice as likely as Hispanics and over three times as likely as white women to be in prison.
Thank you for the stiff bracer of reality. This article is not credible on its face, imo.
Let me say that back in 02 when I began pointing out BJS stats, I included blacks. What I found was that those that were trying to impugn the info I was presenting on hispanics, tried to label me as racist because the info included blacks.
Even tho it is important to know how blacks fit into the picture, I no longer include that.
If that is actually true, then they don't need to come here for their own safety.
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