THE
INVADING CRIMINALS:
A county by county
chart:
In 2019 Over
90% of Illegal Aliens Arrested in U.S. Had Criminal Convictions, Pending
Charges
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, January 9,
2020
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Crimes by
Illegal Immigrants Widespread Across US – Sanctuaries Shouldn’t Shield Them
By Hans A. von Spakovsky
“more Mexicans
than U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in
2018.”
Hans von
Spakovsky: Crimes by illegal immigrants widespread across US – Sanctuaries
shouldn’t shield them
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, January 9, 2020
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/in-2019-over-90-of-illegal-aliens-arrested-in-u-s-had-criminal-convictions-pending-charges/
By Hans A. von Spakovsky
The decision by a California appeals court Friday overturning
the conviction of an illegal immigrant who shot and killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco in 2015
once again put the national spotlight on the serious problem of crimes
committed by people in the U.S. illegally.
The appeals court in San Francisco overturned the conviction of Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate on a charge of being a felon in
possession of a firearm. Garcia-Zarate was earlier found not guilty of first-
and second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and assault with a
semi-automatic weapon.
Garcia-Zarate said he unwittingly
picked up a gun, which he said was wrapped in a T-shirt, and it fired
accidentally. The appeals court overturned his conviction on the firearm
possession charge because it said the judge at his trial failed to give the
jury the option of finding him not guilty on the theory that he only possessed
the gun for a moment.
Opponents of federal efforts to
enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress repeatedly claim that illegal
immigrants are “less likely” to commit crimes than U.S. citizens – and thus
represent no threat to public safety. But that’s not true when it comes to
federal crimes.
Non-citizens
constitute only about 7 percent of the U.S. population. Yet the latest data from the Justice
Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that non-citizens accounted
for nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of all federal arrests in 2018. Just two
decades earlier, only 37 percent of all federal arrests were non-citizens.
These arrests aren’t just for
immigration crimes. Non-citizens accounted for 24 percent of all federal drug
arrests, 25 percent of all federal property arrests, and 28 percent of all
federal fraud arrests.
In 2018, a quarter of all federal
drug arrests took place in the five judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico
border. This reflects the ongoing activities of Mexican drug cartels. Last
year, Mexican citizens accounted for 40 percent of all federal arrests.
In fact, more Mexicans than U.S.
citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018.
Migrants from Central American
countries are also accounting for a larger share of federal arrests, going from
a negligible 1 percent of such arrests in 1998 to 20 percent today.
Critics will try to downplay the
importance of the Justice Department’s report by pointing out that the majority
of crimes in the United States are handled by prosecutors in state and local
courts. But even there the data is shocking.
A
recent report from the Texas Department
of Public Safety revealed that 297,000 non-citizens had been “booked into local
Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and July 31, 2019.” So these are non-citizens
who allegedly committed local crimes, not immigration violations.
The report noted that a little
more than two-thirds (202,000) of those booked in Texas jails were later
confirmed as illegal immigrants by the federal government.
According to the Texas report,
over the course of their criminal careers those illegal immigrants were charged
with committing 494,000 criminal offenses.
In fact, more Mexicans than U.S.
citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018.
Some of these cases are still
being prosecuted, but the report states that there have already been over
225,000 convictions. Those convictions represent: 500 homicides; 23,954
assaults; 8,070 burglaries; 297 kidnappings; 14,178 thefts; 2,026 robberies;
3,122 sexual assaults; 3,840 sexual offenses; 3,158 weapon charges and tens of
thousands of drug and obstruction charges
These
statistics reveal the very real danger created by sanctuary policies. In nine
self-declared sanctuary states and numerous sanctuary
cities and counties, officials refuse to hand over criminals who are known to
be in this country illegally after they have served their state or local
sentences.
This refusal to cooperate with
federal immigration officials suggests that state and local officials
supporting the sanctuary movement believe it’s better to let these criminals
return to their communities rather than being removed from this country. Not
all of their constituents would agree.
The Texas report is careful to
note that it is not claiming “foreign nationals” commit “more crimes than other
groups.” Whether that is true or not – and it is certainly true when it comes
to federal crimes – is irrelevant.
What is highly relevant to the
current debate about immigration policy is that the Texas report “identifies
thousands of crimes that should not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the perpetrators should not be here.”
We know that in Texas and around
the country some individuals would be alive today – and their families would
not be mourning their loss – if we had a secure border and an effective
interior enforcement system.
Instead of trying to obstruct
enforcement of our immigration laws, state and local officials should do
everything they can to help the feds reduce the very real – and all too often
fatal – dangers posed by criminal illegal immigrants.
One of the worst recent examples
of a state official who refuses to help federal immigration authorities carry
out their duties is North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper.
The
Democratic governor recently vetoed a bill that would require
local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Cooper
did so just days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents
captured an illegal immigrant charged with first-degree rape and indecent
liberties against a child.
In fact, more Mexicans than U.S.
citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018.
Acting
ICE Director: ICE Removed More Than 145,000 Criminal Aliens Last Year,
Including 10,000 Gang Members
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(CNSNews.com) - Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) made more than 105,000 criminal arrests last year and removed
more than 145,000 criminal aliens, “to include the arrests of nearly 10,000
gang members and the removal of another 6,000,” acting ICE Director Matt
Albence said Thursday.
Speaking to reporters at the
White House, Albence warned about the dangers of sanctuary cities, calling it a
“public safety matter.”
“We are here today to help the
public understand the human cost of sanctuary laws and policies, which ban and
prevent local law enforcement agencies from working with ICE to include even
the simple sharing of information about criminals already in their custody.
Laws and policies like these make us all less safe plain and simple,” he said.
Albence said that 70 percent of
ICE arrests are made at local jails and state prisons nationwide, “but we used
to make more, and we used to get more criminals off the street before sanctuary
laws and policies prevented us from doing so.”
“There’s a lot of misinformation
out there with regard to how we do our operations and what is required, so I’m
going to give a little bit of information and context to dispel some of those
myths and misinformation that’s out there,” the director said.
“One myth is the sanctuary
jurisdictions along with many politicians and members of the media continually
perpetuate is that ICE doesn’t prioritize its limited enforcement resources.
Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said.
Albence said that 90 percent of
the people that ICE arrests in the interior of the country “are convicted
criminals, individuals who’ve been charged with a criminal violation, are
immigration fugitives or are illegal re-entrants, meaning they’ve been through
the immigration court process previously, been deported and re-entered
illegally, which is a federal felony and one of which we received 7,000
convictions for last year.”
“And immigration fugitives, to be
clear as well, are those individuals who’ve had their day in court, have
exhausted all forms of due process, have been ordered removed by an immigration
judge, and failed to comply with that removal order,” the director said.
“Many sanctuary jurisdictions
will also incorrectly assert that they cannot hand over custody of criminal
aliens in their jails unless ICE provides an arrest warrant signed by a federal
judge. Those that say that are either willfully ignorant or patently
disingenuous,” Albence said.
“The truth is that federal law
does not provide any mechanism for judicial warrants to be issued for civil
immigration violations. There is not a single judge, magistrate anywhere in
this country that has a lawful authority to issue a warrant for a civil
immigration violation. By statute, Congress has given this authority solely to
supervisory immigration officers. This is one of the ways in which our system
-- the immigration enforcement system -- differs from the criminal justice
system, and it's perfectly lawful,” he said.
Albence said that of the nearly
1,300 arrests made this week, ICE officers arrested “nearly 200 who could’ve
been arrested at the jail if the detainer had been honored.”
“Of the criminal aliens we took
into custody this week, three had convictions for manslaughter or murder. One
hundred had convictions for sexual assault or crimes, with the victims of
nearly half of them being children. Seventy had convictions for crimes
involving drugs, and more than 320 had convictions for driving under the
influence of drugs or alcohol,” he said.
Exclusive: 8 More Tennessee Counties to Rebuke Gov. Bill Lee’s Refugee Inflow
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At least eight additional counties across Tennessee are ready to rebuke Gov. Bill Lee’s decision to bring more refugees to the state, Breitbart News has learned.
For fiscal year 2020, President Donald Trump will continue cutting refugee admissions by reducing former President Barack Obama’s refugee inflow by at least 80 percent. This reduction would mean a maximum of 18,000 refugees can be resettled in the U.S. between October 1, 2019, and September 30, 2020. This is merely a numerical limit and not a goal federal officials are supposed to reach.
Coupled with the refugee reduction, Trump signed an executive order that gives localities, counties, and states veto power over whether they want to resettle refugees in their communities.
After immense backlash from state legislators and voters, insiders told Breitbart News that now another eight counties are considering a resolution that Loudon County recently adopted, which rebukes the governor’s decision to allow more refugees and bans resettlement in the region.
Breitbart News was the first to report that activists and Tennessee county officials had drafted the resolution against Lee’s decision.
The eight counties also weighing whether to ban resettlement and rebuke Lee’s refugee inflow include:
- Wilson County
- Cumberland County
- Cannon County
- Smith County
- Macon County
- Tipton County
- Monroe County
- Stewart County
Wilson County, located just outside of Nashville, will vote January 27 on the resolution to ensure no refugees are resettlement in the area.
“The resolution is a record saying ‘Bill Lee, this is what this county does not want to do. This is our nonconsent saying we do not want refugees in our county right now. We’re letting you know that we do not consent,'” an insider told Breitbart News.
State legislators were “blindsided,” according to the insider, when Lee announced that he would allow refugee contractors on behalf of the State Department to resettle more refugees in the state for fiscal year 2020.
Lee is one of 19 Republican governors who have asked the State Department to resettle refugees in their states. Thus far, the only Republican governor to halt refugee resettlement to his state is Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas. Republican governors asking for more refugees include:
- Bill Lee of Tennessee
- Mike DeWine of Ohio
- Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas
- Kim Reynolds of Iowa
- Charlie Baker of Massachusetts
- Gary Herbert of Utah
- Doug Burgum of North Dakota
- Chris Sununu of New Hampshire
- Doug Ducey of Arizona
- Eric Holcomb of Indiana
- Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma
- Pete Ricketts of Nebraska
- Kristi Noem of South Dakota
- Jim Justice of West Virginia
- Mike Parson of Missouri
- Brad Little of Idaho
- Larry Hogan of Maryland
- Mike Dunleavy of Alaska
- Phil Scott of Vermont
Currently in Tennessee, refugee contractors — the non-government organizations that resettle refugees in the U.S. for the federal government — maintain offices in Davidson County, Shelby County, Hamilton County, and Knox County. This means that refugees could be resettled in neighboring counties even if they have not consented to admit refugees.
Those refugee contractors, who have a full monopoly on the refugee resettlement program, include:
Church World Service (CWS), Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC), Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM), Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), International Rescue Committee (IRC), U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS), U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and World Relief Corporation (WR).
Since 2005, nearly 860,000 refugees have been resettled across the U.S. — a population that is more than 80 times the size of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Effectively, for the last 15 years, nearly 60,000 refugees have been resettled in the country, equivalent to adding the population of Pensacola, Florida, to the U.S. every year.
Refugee resettlement costs American taxpayers nearly $9 billion every five years, according to the latest research. Over the course of five years, an estimated 16 percent of all refugees admitted will need housing assistance paid for by taxpayers.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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