Posted on 07/29/2009 9:46:21 AM PDT by AuntB
San Diego, CA ---In the wake of the murder of Border Patrol Agent and father of two Robert Rosas, the issue of illegal immigration and its impact on all of us is again top of mind. The illegal border crosser is often described by the media as a poor migrant worker, that is just looking for a job and a way to support their families. In some cases that is true however almost daily we hear of unthinkable crimes being committed by people who aren’t supposed to be here in the first place.
Is Illegal Immigration a victimless crime? Not hardly. The men that allegedly murdered Agent Rosas weren’t hard-core cartel members but illegal aliens trying to cross into the US undetected. Yet some illegal immigrants themselves are victims.
This is the first of a four part series on the victims of illegal immigration. In Part II, I will highlight the dangers faced by those seeking a better life in the US as many are raped, robbed, tortured and left for dead by unscrupulous “coyote” guides. In Part III, I will address the impact on the American worker and the economic crisis it has contributed to in California and elsewhere. In Part IV, I will address the crimes committed against American citizens. Crimes like murder and dismemberment, which have left a trail of injured and dead Americans of all ages nationwide.
First, this is not an attempt to demonize any ethnic group. People cross the US border illegally from every country on the globe and for any conceivable reason. This is not a racial issue though some will attempt to play that card, as perhaps it is the only one in their hand. It is not a new phenomenon either. The illegal immigrants of the mid to late eighteen hundreds were largely Irish and Chinese coming here to work on the railroads. The government was as complicit in their illegal entry then as it is today.
On this day however we are reminded tragically of just how dangerous the border area has become. In a 2006 study conducted by the Border Counties Coalition, the twenty-four US counties that run along the border with Mexico were combined into a fictional 51st State and compared against the other fifty. Not surprisingly they collectively ranked #1 n crime, crimes involving drugs, crimes involving children, Federal crimes and lastly, immigration crimes. Additionally these same counties had the nations highest incidence of Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Chagas disease. This suggests with empirical data that you don’t have to be the victim of a crime to be negatively impacted as most, if not all of the cases of these once eradicated diseases in this country can be traced to people illegally entering without proper health screens.
At one point in 2006 it was estimated that as many as 15,000+ illegal aliens were crossing into the US each day. Roughly twenty-percent were criminals. We know this because they had already been deported for felonies in the United States. In fact according to the Center For Immigration Studies, a large percentage of felons in state and federal prison are illegally in this country costing the taxpayer upwards of $1.6 billion dollars per year. Statistics though are pliable and can be bent or “spun” to accommodate most any position. The open borders activists will of course cite another report published by the Immigration Policy Center in which they assert that statistically immigrants, whether illegal or legal, were substantially less likely to commit crimes or be incarcerated than native born US citizens. Still, the fact remains that whether likely or unlikely to commit crimes, a good percentage of all criminals in prison are illegal aliens.
Routinely, Border Patrol Agents arrest illegal border crossers with gang affiliations like MS-13; their colors displayed proudly in the form of facial and body tattoos. Backpacks and clothing with gang symbols are found in remote desert areas across the southwest having been discarded after their owners were picked up by their sponsors and driven to major urban areas around the country.
The alleged killers of Border Agent Rosas were reportedly part of a people smuggling operation working out of Tecate, Mexico. One of the six men charged, Jose Eugenio Quintero Ruiz, was wanted for two murders and rape in the United States. Somehow, at least one of the 26 people involved in the Rosas shooting made it all the way to San Jose before his cell phone betrayed his location and he was arrested. The network of people smugglers in both the US and Mexico is wide and varied in their funding and sophistication.
In the next article I will address crimes against the illegal immigrants themselves by men and women on both sides of the border who will do almost anything, to anyone, for a buck or a peso. For many, the illegal immigrants dream of traveling to El Norte and living the good life is abruptly and tragically cut short. Most of this could be avoided, if only the governments of the United States and Mexico made illegal immigration and secure borders, a priority. For more info: Tragedy in Amexica
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Here ya go...this from NAFBPO - just part of their latest M3 Foreign news report, it’ll just make your day!
U.S. fan: “Something’s wrong when I can’t raise an American flag in my own country.”
El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 7/28/09
[Full transl. of op/column by Sergio Sarmiento titled “Mexican stadium.” The writer is nationally syndicated in Mexico]
Mexican Stadium
U.S. fan: “Something’s wrong when I can’t raise an American flag in my own country.”
The Giants’ Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with capacity for 75 thousand spectators, was full this last Sunday during the finals of the Gold Cup soccer match between the teams from Mexico and the United States. The Mexican team beat its rival “in its own territory” for the first time in ten years. Nevertheless, as is already usual in the soccer matches between Mexico and the United States, the stadium looked like anything except American.
More than 80 or 90% of the spectators were Mexican or Mexican-American, and their sympathy for the Mexican team could not be hidden. From the start, the spectators behaved as a ferociously local and discourteous Mexican public. Many whistled loudly when the National Anthem of the United States, “The flag of the stars and stripes” was played, and during the entire match they isolated the 10 thousand fans of the U.S. team, who for all intents and purposes, were in hostile territory.
It’s not the first time that this happens. In the book “Who Are We: The Challenges to American National Identity,” Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington, also the author of Clash of Civilizations, described what happened in another Gold Cup: In a sea of Mexican flags, many of the spectators booed the playing of the U.S. national anthem; they tossed waste and “cups of what may have been water, beer or worse” at the U.S. players; they attacked with fruits and beer those few spectators who dared to raise a U.S. flag. Huntington points out that these events did not take place in Mexico City but in Los Angeles in 1998. Huntington quoted a fan of the U.S. team “Something’s wrong when I can’t raise an American flag in my own country.”
Certainly, something is wrong. If something similar had taken place in our country, if a community of foreign origin had made a mockery of our National Anthem and our flag, (then) the mass media and Mexican politicians would have already started a campaign to lynch those anti-patriots and traitors. But since this took place in the United States, many Mexicans have thought of it as something to be proud of.
In his book, Professor Huntington, who died on December 24, 2008, called upon Americans to defend their country’s national identity. He pointed out that “Assimilation is particularly problematic for Mexicans and other Hispanics.” And he was right. The Germans, Irish, Jews and Italians who immigrated into the United States in the past were proud of their national origin, but they never ceased to regard themselves as Americans and to respect its national symbols. For that reason Huntington suggested that the entry of Mexicans into the United States ought to be limited and that more energetic measures should be taken to integrate those who may already be inside the country.
It’s not to anyone’s benefit that Mexicans be seen as traitors in the country which has taken them in with generosity and which has allowed them to build a prosperity that Mexico denied them. For that reason, at a time when there are people in Mexico who rejoice when the American National Anthem is booed at a sporting event in New Jersey, let us think what this would mean for us if a foreign community would do it at Aztec Stadium.
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Agnel Resendez aka the railroad killer. Houston Texas 2006. Murdered his victims then hopped a freight train to move to another part of the town.
There is a website called “Laredo’s missing”. Missing mostly young girls from Laredo taken by mexican nationals back across the border.
Several HPD officers in the last 2 years. All of them illegals.
Need I go on.
See post 22
Reminds me of another stupid latino given a deal---no execution and diminshed life sentence---- for admitting to visciously killing and raping two young girls.
L/E confiscated his computer and found that he enjoyed surfing the net to read news stories on his victims. Real bright, eh?
So this idiot went before the court and said he changed his mind---no deal. Meant he would be tried for one killing (only evidence L/E had on him).
Then the dingbat went to trial, was found guilty---AND sentenced to death.
Nice thinking stupido--guess the hot sauce ate whatever was left of his retarded Third World brain.
I, too, am for family reunification. If they want to reunify with their families, they can return to their home countries.
That soccer match and some of the BS was broadcast live on Univision. More than 5 million people watch in on Uni, I don’t know how many on Fox sports. The New York Times only described the crowd as “pro-Mexico” and didn’t mention the insults to our flag and our national anthem.
La Lydia, did you hear about the soccer game in Mexico, about 2001-2. The Mexican crowd was taunting the USA players with “Osama! Osama!”
And our government keeps telling us that Mexico is our ‘ally’?
How many people still believe that?
Yes, I remember that. Our concept of good sportsmanship does not exist down there. I think there is a difference between the Mexican government and the Mexican people. The Mexican people resent and envy us no end. One of the reasons for that is the schools down there teach a lot about the Mexican-American War, that we “stole” all their territory, etc., because it is easier for the government to stir up anti-American feelings than to deal with all of its own problems. There is a big statue of the “Niños Héroes” from that war in Chapultepec, the Central Park of Mexico City, that is difficult to miss. We stole all of the “wealthy” parts of Mexico, don’t ya know. So anything that appears to damage us, to the Mexicans, is a good thing, including Osama.
“We stole all of the “wealthy” parts of Mexico, don’t ya know.”
Oh, yes THAT old ploy! The Mexicans didn’t want anything to do with that territory, didn’t want to live there...it was too rough! Some of my Cherokee ancestors settled 3 counties in Texas years before white settlers, with Mexico’s blessing, in writing. Not a Mexican to be seen. They covered Sam Houston’s backside from invaders coming over to steal what the Indian and white setters were producing....so not much has changed. They waited until we turned it into something worth having, and now they want it back...Not in my lifetime.
I’ve asked some of the reconquista crowd this question for years....Show me where your ancestors are buried...show me one ancestor of yours that ever resided in what you call “your land.” Not ONE has ever been able to do it.
Mr. Reconquista, Show me yours and I’ll show you mine!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=+Mr.+Reconquista+show+me+yours
At the time of the Mexican-America War, there were fewer than 75,000 Mexicans (probably nearer 45,000-50,000) Mexicans living in Texas, New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Arizona and California altogether. The Mexican population of Los Angeles in 1840 was fewer than 2,000. And you can tell the Raza people that those were nearly all crillos, that is, Spaniards born in Mexico, not mestizos, that is, raza people with native American blood. For an interesting look at the “show me where your ancestors are buried” issue, check out the Mexican-American genealogy sites. They’re all after info from Mexico, not California or Texas.
“At the time of the Mexican-America War, there were fewer than 75,000 Mexicans (probably nearer 45,000-50,000) Mexicans living in Texas, New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Arizona and California altogether. The Mexican population of Los Angeles in 1840 was fewer than 2,000. And you can tell the Raza people that those were nearly all crillos, that is, Spaniards born in Mexico, not mestizos, that is, raza people with native American blood”
Yes, and they stayed and became great Americans. They didn’t want anything to do with Mexico. Those yelling ‘Azatlan” today are no more related to those folks than I am! Their offspring are not the current crop of ‘immigrants’.
As this wise Mexican reporter put it today....
“Certainly, something is wrong. If something similar had taken place in our country, if a community of foreign origin had made a mockery of our National Anthem and our flag, (then) the mass media and Mexican politicians would have already started a campaign to lynch those anti-patriots and traitors. But since this took place in the United States, many Mexicans have thought of it as something to be proud of. .......It’s not to anyone’s benefit that Mexicans be seen as traitors in the country which has taken them in with generosity and which has allowed them to build a prosperity that Mexico denied them. For that reason, at a time when there are people in Mexico who rejoice when the American National Anthem is booed at a sporting event in New Jersey, let us think what this would mean for us if a foreign community would do it at Aztec Stadium.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2304466/posts
That article was a great post.
You did not catch my sarcasm. I would like the 46,000 + Americans who died “Death By Illegal Alien” have family re-unification. It will never be. If those Americans cannot be re-united, then nobody should be re-united with their family.
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