[Sangetsu]

A country without borders is not a country. Not all the illegal immigrants we get in America are honest, hardworking people. Many of them are criminals in their native countries, and came to America to flee justice at home. Perhaps this explains why nearly 25% of California's prison population is made up of illegal aliens. Nationwide, about 600,000 illegal aliens are imprisoned. More than 90% of arrest warrants for murder in Los Angeles are issued against illegal aliens. Illegal immigrants make up about 3% of the US population, but they make up about 17% of the prison population nationwide.

About 60% of illegal aliens working in America work for cash, and pay no taxes. The majority of money earned by illegal immigrants is not spent in America, but is remitted to their families in their home countries. This does little to help the economies in the areas where illegal aliens work and live.

Regardless of their immigration status, the vast majority of illegal aliens do not have a high school level education, and as such, generally consume more in benefits than they pay in taxes. The children of illegal aliens who are naturalized American citizens have the highest high school drop out rate of any race or class of people in America, and as such, they are likely to consume more in government benefits in their lifetimes than they contribute in taxes.

I remember a place called Minnie Street in Santa Ana California where I got my first experience working in law enforcement. Minnie Street consisted of blocks upon blocks of apartment buildings which primarily housed illegal immigrants from Mexico and other Central American countries. The people who lived there worked hard enough, but they were poor, barely literate (even in Spanish), and appallingly dirty. The street smelled of urine (though the toilets in the buildings worked fine, the people who lived there brought the third-world habit of urinating in the streets to America with them), trash was always strewn about, and there were constant problems with drunks. The area around this neighborhood had the highest number of drunk driving accidents and arrests of any other in Orange Country. Car thefts in the surrounding neighborhoods also occurred at the highest rates in the country. The cars were seldom recovered as most were driven into Mexico, where it is a simple enough process to bribe an official to get a vehicle title. Illegal aliens in this neighborhood were never arrested for immigration violations, county policies forbade officers from asking about the immigration status of any person. They could be arrested for a misdemeanor crime (one of which is drunk driving), after which they would serve their time in the country jail and be released. Only those convicted of felonies (murder, attempted murder, ADW, drug trafficking, or rape) could be reported to immigration. Hundreds of such arrests occurred yearly (from this single neighborhood), but for every person arrested/convicted/deported, 2 or 3 more would come to replace him, and often the person deported would return again only to commit more crimes.

I would not fault illegal immigrants if they worked hard, lived clean, and tried to elevate themselves to the level of the country they have come to. But with very few exceptions, they don't try, and the neighborhoods in which they live soon resemble the dirty, crime-ridden slums they left behind in their home countries. Dirty sheets hang in the windows instead of curtains, dirty diapers are thrown out in the alleys and parking lots, the sidewalks glisten with bits of glass from broken beer bottles, the air stinks of urine, broken down cars are parted out on the sides of the streets, and bars begin appearing on the windows of the houses in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Here is an excerpt written in 2005 by the GAO regarded illegal aliens incarcerated in US prisons: “They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien. One arrest incident may include multiple offenses, a fact that explains why there are nearly one and half times more offenses than arrests. Almost all of these illegal aliens were arrested for more than 1 offense. Slightly more than half of the 55,322 illegal aliens had between 2 and 10 offenses. About 45 percent of all offenses were drug or immigration offenses. About 15 percent were property-related offenses such as burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and property damage. About 12 percent were for violent offenses such as murder, robbery, assault, and sex-related crimes. The balance was for such other offenses as traffic violations, including driving under the influence; fraud — including forgery and counterfeiting; weapons violations; and obstruction of justice. Eighty percent of all arrests occurred in three states — California, Texas, and Arizona. Specifically, about 58 percent of all arrests occurred in California, 14 percent in Texas, and 8 percent in Arizona.”


The negative aspects of illegal immigration far outweigh any positive benefit from it, if there can be any benefit when any illegal alien is fundamentally a criminal.