Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (19 page)

       
6.
   
Immigrants without at least one felony or two misdemeanor convictions;

       
7.
   
Immigration detainees;
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and

       
8.
   
Illegal immigrants who committed crimes after being amnestied by Reagan in 1986.

To be extra opaque, the GAO counted all immigrants in federal prisons—legal and illegal—but counted only illegal immigrants in state prisons and local jails.
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Why exclude legal immigrants? Isn’t that worse? Only certain Republicans get excited about the difference between legal and illegal immigrants. The rest of America is trying to understand the point of the last thirty years of legal immigration. Why was this necessary? While it’s nice to know a little more about the people Marco Rubio is so anxious to make our fellow citizens, why can’t we be told how many rapes and murders
legal
immigrants commit? To paraphrase the line about families, you can’t choose your native-born Americans—but you can choose your immigrants. Our immigration system will be working when the number of immigrants who commit crimes is zero.

Why would any country import other countries’ criminals? What could possibly be on the plus side of the ledger, with “criminal” on the minus side? Since the United Nations isn’t yet demanding that America allow everyone in the world to immigrate here, couldn’t we at least discriminate on the basis of felon vs. non-felon? Maybe we could do a triage:

       
1.
   
Helpful to country;

       
2.
   
Not helpful to country, but not a felon;

       
3.
   
Felon.

Here’s another idea: Instead of the Census Bureau collecting detailed information about how many rental units have “broken or missing stair railings” (382,000 in 2010) or have had mold in their bathrooms in the last twelve months (1.1 million in 2010),
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how about the government tell us how many immigrants have committed crimes? Determining the number of foreign born in the criminal justice system doesn’t rely on taking surveys, trusting Americans to accurately report on their stair railings, and hiring teams of statisticians to spend years analyzing the data. We just need the government to count. Unlike mold in private homes, criminals have come into significant contact with the government—cops, prosecutors, judges, and prison guards. And we’re already paying those guys’ salaries. As important as the number of carports in America is, it’s also important to know how many immigrants are committing crimes.

DOING THE WORK OUR MEDIA JUST WON’T DO: CLUES TO THE IMMIGRANT CRIME WAVE

With the government keeping that information locked in a steel casket at Fort Knox, one has to look at ancillary facts. The available data suggest that the crime rate among immigrants is astronomical. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for example, inadvertently issued a report indicating that there are twice as many foreign-born criminals as the GAO’s estimate. In 2006, the DHS stated that 605,000 foreign-born criminals would be arrested by state and local law enforcement in 2007
alone
. That’s double the number of illegal aliens for whom the states requested reimbursement in 2009.
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If the DHS’s estimate is correct, then nearly a third of the 2 million prisoners in state and local facilities that year
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were foreign born.

Piecing together state and federal reports, it appears that half the correctional population in California consists of illegal aliens. According to a state report, there were fewer than two hundred thousand inmates in the entire California prison population, including mental hospitals, in 2009.
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That year, 102,795 illegal aliens were incarcerated in California, costing the state more than $1 billion a year.
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Texas counts only illegal aliens who have already been fingerprinted by the Department of Homeland Security. Even with that limitation, Texas arrests more than thirty-two thousand criminal aliens
a year
.
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Then there is the explosion of America’s prison population since we began admitting millions of Third World immigrants in the 1970s. From 1925 until 1970, a steady 0.1 percent of the population was in state or federal prison. Thus, in 1925, when the U.S. population was 100 million, there were about one hundred thousand people in prison; and in 1970, when there were 200 million Americans, there were two hundred thousand in prison.
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Then, suddenly, just as a very different sort of immigrant began to be admitted under Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration act, the prison population skyrocketed. If the incarceration rate had remained the same, there would only be about 310,000 people in prison today. Instead, there are more than 2 million prisoners in America. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased by one-third, but the prison population has nearly sextupled. A lot of factors affect incarceration rates—liberal judges, destructive social programs, illegitimacy, and social decay. But those come and go. Immigration is forever.

ONE THOUSAND DOMINICANS—ONE DANE

The New York State Department of Corrections has collected information about the top ten nationalities in its prisons for years—a practice that will presumably end as soon as this book is published. Foreign inmates were 70 percent more likely to have committed a violent crime than American criminals. They were also twice as likely to have committed a class A felony, such as aggravated murder, kidnapping, and terrorism.
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In 2010, the top ten countries of the foreign-born inmates were:

          
Dominican Republic: 1,314

          
Jamaica: 849

          
Mexico: 523

          
Guyana: 289

          
El Salvador: 245

          
Cuba: 242

          
Trinidad and Tobago: 237

          
Haiti: 201

          
Ecuador: 189

          
Colombia: 168
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Most readers are agog at the number of Dominicans in New York prisons, having spent years reading
New York Times
articles about Dominicans’ “entrepreneurial zeal,”
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and “traditional immigrant virtues.”
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Even in an article about the Dominicans’ domination of the crack cocaine business, the
Times
praised their “savvy,” which had allowed them to become “highly successful” drug dealers, then hailed their drug-infested neighborhoods as the “embodiment of the American Dream—a vibrant, energetic urban melting pot.”
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Between 1996 and 2010, the only change in New York’s foreign inmate population was that El Salvador and Ecuador edged out China and Panama on the “Top Ten” list, and the number of Mexicans doubled. Mexicans have been in the top ten nationalities of foreign-born inmates in New York for decades. In 2010, there were more Mexicans in New York state prisons—523—than there were inmates from the entire continent of Europe—353.
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In 2007—the last year the New York Department of Corrections bothered to list European inmates by country, the representation of the following countries in state prisons was:

          
Denmark: 1

          
Czechoslovakia: 2

          
Netherlands: 2

          
Switzerland: 2

          
Ireland: 4

          
Poland: 27

          
Germany: 46

          
England: 49
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Of course, on account of Europe’s own insane immigration policies, most of the “European” criminals are probably Muslims.
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In Denmark, actual Danes come in tenth in criminals’ nationality, after Moroccans, Lebanese, Yugoslavians, Somalis, Iranians, Pakistanis, Turks, Iraqis, and Vietnamese.
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We do not know how many prisoners from “England” were like this one, featured in the
Orlando Sentinel
in 2014: “Brit Gets Ten Years for Seeking Child Sex for Incest Fantasy.” The name of the “Brit” was: Shuhel Mahboob Ali.
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He had flown from London to Florida in order to rape the thirteen-year-old daughter of a man he met through an online ad. Instead, the forty-year-old Ali was arrested by undercover FBI agents who had placed the ad. In his months of chatting with the fake dad, Mr. Ali provided graphic details of how he planned to create a “daughters only” incest family. He said he would “breed” with the thirteen-year-old girl, then immediately begin sexually abusing their babies, to indoctrinate them into the incest “lifestyle.” “When you start with very, very, very young,” he boasted, “you can mold them to believe anything and do anything you [say].”
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Shuhel Mahboob Ali is now one of the “British” inmates in our federal prisons.

ARKRIN TAECHARATANAPRASERT OF THE BACK BAY TAECHARATANAPRASERTS

Other hints about immigrant crime come from the “Most Wanted” lists. Here is the Los Angeles Police Department’s list of “Most Wanted” criminals, as of January 1, 2015:

       
   
Jesse Enrique Monarrez (murder),

       
   
Cesar Augusto Nistal (child molestation),

       
   
Jose A. Padilla (murder),