{"id":105799,"date":"2016-09-06T19:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T03:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105799"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:10:38","slug":"lat-op-ed-immigrants-dont-commit-more-crimes-why-does-the-myth-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105799","title":{"rendered":"LAT Op-Ed: Immigrants don’t commit more crimes. Why does the myth persist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The article is eviscerated in the comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* The question is NOT whether or not immigrants commit more crime. <\/p>\n

The telling question is whether or not ILLEGAL immigrants commit more crimes. This question was neither asked nor answered.<\/p>\n

* One must consider the fact the legal citizens include young black men, who repeatedly commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes. Meanwhile “immigrants” include Asian engineers and doctors who commit almost no crimes at all. When immigrants do commit serious felonies, they are deported, which means they can’t commit another crime in the U.S.<\/p>\n

* \u201cUnfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we\u2019re never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you\u2019re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It\u2019s a dirty, dark secret; I\u2019m glad it\u2019s coming out.\u201d
\n– Former NBA player Charles Barkley<\/p>\n

* If you look at who is shooting whom in Chicago, Baltimore, St Louis, Oakland, New Orleans, Detroit & elsewhere, you’d know the truth. <\/p>\n

Nearly 3000 shot in Chicago 2016, over 500 shot & killed.<\/p>\n

* 41 of top 50 most dangerous cities on Earth are in Latin America. <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-01-30\/2-worlds-20-most-violent-cities-are-america <\/p>\n

Any reason to believe immigrants from there leave those bad habits behind? Not really. Activity in crime gangs is rampant in that group. <\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS-13 <\/p>\n

Keep pouring that Kool-Aide, someone must drink it.<\/p>\n

* Yes, immigrants from Japan, Norway & Switzerland commit crime at much lower rates than ‘native’ Americans. <\/p>\n

The natives in Chicago, New Orleans, Oakland & Baltimore. <\/p>\n

Not the pale natives in ND, VT, UT or just about anywhere else in US.<\/p>\n

* Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Sentencing Commission, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Government Accountability Office, the Bureau of Justice Statistics and several state and county correctional departments show the estimated 11.7 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. account for 13.6 percent of all offenders sentenced for crimes committed in the U.S. Twelve percent of murder sentences, 20 percent of kidnapping sentences and 16 percent of drug trafficking sentences are meted out to illegal immigrants. The figures show that illegal immigrants are three times as likely to be convicted of murder as members of the general population and account for far more crimes than their 3.5-percent share of the U.S. population would suggest. <\/p>\n

If our immigration laws were enforced the people who have committed these crimes been incarcerated would not even be here, making all of our communities safer.<\/p>\n

* Heather Mac Donald writes:<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD\u2019s rule against enforcing immigration law.
\nThe LAPD\u2019s ban on immigration enforcement mirrors bans in immigrant-saturated cities around the country, from New York and Chicago to San Diego, Austin, and Houston. These \u201csanctuary policies\u201d generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.
\nSuch laws testify to the sheer political power of immigrant lobbies, a power so irresistible that police officials shrink from even mentioning the illegal-alien crime wave. \u201cWe can\u2019t even talk about it,\u201d says a frustrated LAPD captain. \u201cPeople are afraid of a backlash from Hispanics.\u201d Another LAPD commander in a predominantly Hispanic, gang-infested district sighs: \u201cI would get a firestorm of criticism if I talked about [enforcing the immigration law against illegals].\u201d Neither captain would speak for attribution.
\nBut however pernicious in themselves, sanctuary rules are a symptom of a much broader disease: the nation\u2019s near-total loss of control over immigration policy. Fifty years ago, immigration policy might have driven immigration numbers, but today the numbers drive policy. The nonstop increase of immigration is reshaping the language and the law to dissolve any distinction between legal and illegal aliens and, ultimately, the very idea of national borders.
\nIt is a measure of how topsy-turvy the immigration environment has become that to ask police officials about the illegal-alien crime problem feels like a gross faux pas, not done in polite company. And a police official asked to violate this powerful taboo will give a strangled response\u2014or, as in the case of a New York deputy commissioner, break off communication altogether. Meanwhile, millions of illegal aliens work, shop, travel, and commit crimes in plain view, utterly secure in their de facto immunity from the immigration law.
\nI asked the Miami Police Department\u2019s spokesman, Detective Delrish Moss, about his employer\u2019s policy on lawbreaking illegals. In September, the force arrested a Honduran visa violator for seven vicious rapes. The previous year, Miami cops had had the suspect in custody for lewd and lascivious molestation, without checking his immigration status. Had they done so, they would have discovered his visa overstay, a deportable offense, and so could have forestalled the rapes. \u201cWe have shied away from unnecessary involvement dealing with immigration issues,\u201d explains Moss, choosing his words carefully, \u201cbecause of our large immigrant population.\u201d
\nPolice commanders may not want to discuss, much less respond to, the illegal-alien crisis, but its magnitude for law enforcement is startling. Some examples:
\n\u2022 In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
\n\u2022 A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.
\n\u2022 The leadership of the Columbia Lil\u2019 Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.\u2019s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.
\nGood luck finding any reference to such facts in official crime analysis. The LAPD and the L.A. city attorney recently requested an injunction against drug trafficking in Hollywood, targeting the 18th Street Gang and the \u201cnon\u2013gang members\u201d who sell drugs in Hollywood for the gang. Those non\u2013gang members are virtually all illegal Mexicans, smuggled into the country by a ring organized by 18th Street bigs. The Mexicans pay off their transportation debts to the gang by selling drugs; many soon realize how lucrative that line of work is and stay in the business.
\nCops and prosecutors universally know the immigration status of these non-gang \u201cHollywood dealers,\u201d as the city attorney calls them, but the gang injunction is assiduously silent on the matter. And if a Hollywood officer were to arrest an illegal dealer (known on the street as a \u201cborder brother\u201d) for his immigration status, or even notify the Immigration and Naturalization Service (since early 2003, absorbed into the new Department of Homeland Security), he would face severe discipline for violating Special Order 40, the city\u2019s sanctuary policy.
\nThe ordinarily tough-as-nails former LAPD chief Daryl Gates enacted Special Order 40 in 1979\u2014showing that even the most unapologetic law-and-order cop is no match for immigration advocates. The order prohibits officers from \u201cinitiating police action where the objective is to discover the alien status of a person\u201d\u2014in other words, the police may not even ask someone they have arrested about his immigration status until after they have filed criminal charges, nor may they arrest someone for immigration violations. They may not notify immigration authorities about an illegal alien picked up for minor violations. Only if they have already booked an illegal alien for a felony or for multiple misdemeanors may they inquire into his status or report him. The bottom line: a cordon sanitaire between local law enforcement and immigration authorities that creates a safe haven for illegal criminals.
\nL.A.\u2019s sanctuary law and all others like it contradict a key 1990s policing discovery: the Great Chain of Being in criminal behavior. Pick up a law-violator for a \u201cminor\u201d crime, and you might well prevent a major crime: enforcing graffiti and turnstile-jumping laws nabs you murderers and robbers. Enforcing known immigration violations, such as reentry following deportation, against known felons, would be even more productive. LAPD officers recognize illegal deported gang members all the time\u2014flashing gang signs at court hearings for rival gangbangers, hanging out on the corner, or casing a target. These illegal returnees are, simply by being in the country after deportation, committing a felony (in contrast to garden-variety illegals on their first trip to the U.S., say, who are only committing a misdemeanor). \u201cBut if I see a deportee from the Mara Salvatrucha [Salvadoran prison] gang crossing the street, I know I can\u2019t touch him,\u201d laments a Los Angeles gang officer. Only if the deported felon has given the officer some other reason to stop him, such as an observed narcotics sale, can the cop accost him\u2014but not for the immigration felony.
\nThough such a policy puts the community at risk, the department\u2019s top brass brush off such concerns. No big deal if you see deported gangbangers back on the streets, they say. Just put them under surveillance for \u201creal\u201d crimes and arrest them for those. But surveillance is very manpower-intensive. Where there is an immediate ground for getting a violent felon off the street and for questioning him further, it is absurd to demand that the woefully understaffed LAPD ignore it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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