Posted on 01/24/2007 3:00:13 PM PST by stockpirate
Nah, it's pretty impossible. For example, around here in Maryland, while there is a good sized and growing population of Central Americans who are almost all illegal, the overwhelming majority of the murders are committed by blacks.
They must be including ALL manner of deaths.
This would make sense if you include illegals causing car accidents.
I believe the actual number is closer to 4,500. But definitely more than were killed on 9-11. Over half were by drunk drivers, the others by homicide.
Nowhere in that article does his cite his sources or "show his math."
I don't think even if you somehow included every fatal car accident where an illegal was even one of the parties in the accident, even if they weren't charged with anything, you could possibly get to that number.
Yeah, but we can buy our lettuce cheap.
Well, maybe 45,000 is a large number. But in my book ONE AMERICAN KILLED BY AN ILLEGAL IS ONE TOO DAMNED MANY!!! CLOSE DOWN THE FREAKING BORDERS BUSH!!!
'Nowhere in that article does his cite his sources or "show his math."'
These days that means it was made up, IMO.
Of course not, because he probably pulled it out of ..... the air.
I hear we have 3,000,000 homeless.
And six of every four college coeds are victims of date rape.
This number could possibly include deaths that involve illegals in car accidents.
if even a quarter of that number turns out to be right, it still exceeds the number of Americans killed in the war AND on 9/11......and the fact that the government is trying to hide that number is an outrage.
I'm quite certain that this claim is total bulls**t. And I'll bet that the proportion of "killers" among illegals is about the same as that among legals.
There's a difference between trying to hide a number and simply not bothering to collect or record it.
Even if you look at roughly 50,000 automobile deaths a year, considering the large swaths of the country where there are almost no illegals, the number of those accidents that are just reckless kids or drunkards killing themselves -
I honestly don't think you can realistically get to 45,000 since 9/11 adding that auto number to murders by illegals.
IIRC, I read somewhere that the number is incorrect as it was based on a study that said like 25 percent of the people in FEDERAL prison for murder are non-US citizens. This percentage was then applied to the general population of US prison, and further applied to take all "non-US citizens" as illegal aliens, which is not necessarily the case.
IIRC, the percentage of non-citizens in the US (local) prison population is substantially lower... that's not even counting only the illegal immigrants. I'll have to look it up, but I don't have time right now.
"if even a quarter of that number turns out to be right,"
Don't miss my point. I'm a hard opponent of illegal immigration but I'm a fan of provable facts to back me up. Without that, it's just some guy talkin'.
A lot of what the feds do is an outrage. If I felt like I had equal rights in this country, I wouldn't be moving from my home state.
its 12 a day or 13k in 3 years.. can't be 45k but its still a scandal worth impeaching over.
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