Illegal Immigration: Facts Are Very Scary!

Posted on | January 13, 2010 | 1 Comment

Jan 13, 2010 by Xelan Bonn (Note *: Source links added 2-2 and 3-3-2010)

[See related article: Old Law Could Stop Unlawful Immigration - Help States Recoup Billions. AND Employment-Vote Cards Solve Unlawful Immigration And Voter Fraud ALSO: See Reference Section Below for more research and sources quoted here.]

It’s amazing that after being told several dozen times NO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS by the vast majority of voters, that Congress is still trying to forward such a harmful and wicked deed into America and Americans. In the Dem controlled media (7 of 8 reporters in the US news media are registered Democrats), we rarely hear the facts on illegal or “criminal” immigration, which is a highly complex issue. It really boils down to two simple realities: It’s illegal and it’s very harmful to America and all Americans.

Let’s examine just a small number of the vast amount of negative impacts illegal immigration and a proposed amnesty has or will have on the US and all its citizens (and law abiding immigrants).

The overwhelming majority of identity theft and its respective costs and impacts on Americans is being fueled by illegal immigration. (4)

Since 1986, when the Immigration Reform and Control Act combating illegal immigration set penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal aliens, such illegal workers have been forced to buy fake ID’s to get a job in the US—virtually everyone working in the US illegally has therefore committed a serious crime (a felony in most states that would land most US citizens in prison for a few years). (3)

According to a financial industry report from a Javelin Strategy & Research Survey, Identity Theft is costing Americans about $50 billion per year, or $6,000 per person (not counting all the time impacts, which can add up to months and often impact the business where harmed victims work). (8)

One of the aspects rarely discussed in this debate is the reality of 100% avoidable crime and harms to Americans. For example, if a person who would otherwise commit an act or crime that results in harm or death to another person is not present, then the act cannot occur and nobody can thus be harmed. This is one reason why we have prisons—to remove potential harmful people from society and keep additional harms from occurring. Illegal aliens are not suppose to be in this country, therefore, the resulting crimes and harms they cause while here are 100% avoidable if they had not been here to begin with.

In 2004, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated 6.1 million traffic accidents resulting in 2,788,000 injured and 42,636 killed. (14) If we assume there are 20 million illegal aliens with a total US population of 300 million, this could mean 7%* of all accidents involve illegal aliens, which resulted in 195,160 injuries and 2,984 deaths in 2004 alone or over 29,800 needless deaths over the last decade. Arguably there is a known error factor but the NHTSA does not track the legal status of drivers or those injured or killed—but we do get a general ballpark worth considering. It’s not unfair to assume about 7% of highway deaths and injuries could have been avoided had illegal aliens not been present in the country to begin with.

The reality is, illegal immigration currently results in the death of over 9,000 Americans per year, according to the Operation Safe America Report (7)—a war on American soil pushed by foreigners who are not suppose to be here—a death rate ten times higher than that of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars combined—but no outcry—no outrage—only a sick-minded demand from law makers and the media for amnesty—why? Why is this harm on Americans to be ignored and even condoned and rewarded?

Terrorism security is also a powerful issue in respect to illegal immigration and it is creating more security threats than America can handle. (9)

In 2004, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now part of the Department of Homeland Security as ICE), reported that an estimated 78,000 potential terrorists were on U.S. soil, most having passed across our Southern border illegally and residing in the US completely anonymous to authorities. (7) According to calculations by the Patriot Union of America using the 2007 FBI investigation and capture rates of potential and real terrorists (averaging about 140 per year), it would take the FBI over 557 years to round up and process all the potential terrorists estimated by the INS over 6 years ago (thousand more are said to have come to the US since then). (7) [Note: this article offers related statistics using different sources and figures worth reviewing: "US Barely Escapes Nuclear Sabotage By Illegal Aliens?"]

Between 2001 and 2004, at 24 of the nation’s largest airports, 607 illegal aliens had committed felonious identity theft and gained access to key security areas. Illegal workers, despite background checks, had also gained access to US military bases. (6)

According an extensive immigration and national security report by the Patriot Society and Patriot Union of America (PUA), 16 illegal aliens were documented accessing secure areas of a nuclear power plant, among a long list of other major security threats to all Americans. (7)

The Government Accounting Office (GAO) reported that of the 6 pilots or leaders of the 9-11 Hijackers, 2 were visa overstays and 1 had violated a student visa. (6) The PUA reported from various sources, including the FBI, that had US immigration laws been policed and enforced, the 9-11 attacks would have been averted—in fact, that illegal immigration was chiefly responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on that fateful day.

Amnestying millions of criminal aliens therefore condones such violent acts against Americans and subsequently increases our national security threats—indeed encourages more of them. For should amnesty pass and our borders and immigration systems have not yet been ramped up to ensure 99% security integrity, tens of millions more illegal aliens will have a green light to flood into the US illegally over and over again—and among them will certainly be many of America’s terrorist enemies—many able to access our most vulnerable security areas (as they do currently). And the thousands of potential terrorists already on US soil will be allowed to remain here legally, in spite of background checks (which have been estimated to take up to an entire decade to conclude, if required at all).

Then there is the hot button issue of the economy and US citizen unemployment issues that are really hard to swallow for most Americans.

If you are nearly 2 of every 10 Americans who is unemployed (17.3% receiving unemployment benefits or not) in early 2010, you may be interested to know that in every single work sector and category, including agriculture, Americans are already doing the work illegal aliens are doing and are still WILLING to do the work and needing those jobs—that if illegal immigration was not allowed to flourish but instead abated, the current unemployment rate would be about 3-4% across America—most US citizen families would have access to these needed jobs—millions of which are high paying. (11)

The reality is, supporting lax laws and condoning criminal behavior in mass by foreigners undermines America, Americans, and their collective security in all its forms, including economical. Yet this great big elephant in the room is the one thing the far left refuses to acknowledge or address, instead, choosing to open America’s borders to the world and hell be the cost.

Yet, of all these issues, perhaps the biggest threat to America is actually one of cost in terms of our national debt and ability to weather such a costly prospect as an amnesty.

Forget the fact that amnestying 12 to 20 million criminal aliens would be unconstitutional and illegal (Congress no longer cares about our Constitution), just look at the cost factor alone for an amnesty. The lowest estimate for 16 million criminal aliens is a cost to America of about $4 trillion, and the high end estimate tops $36 trillion over 30 years (depending on how many family members are also allowed to immigrate after the amnesty). (7 and 15) All this money will have to be pushed on to the national debt, which is already edging strongly into dangerous “country-collapse levels” before we even add the cost of an amnesty. (13)

No immigration bill should ever be forwarded until the federal government has proven it has full control over border access to the US as well as interior immigration. (12 – See Recommendations) That is the hard reality. Otherwise, all we get is a bigger problem. In case you are unfamiliar with history, an illegal amnesty was made in 1986 and Congress promised an end to the problem at that time—today, we have 12-20 million illegal aliens to contend with as a result of that broken promise so now what? Do we keep repeating our mistakes?

Lots of arguments have been forwarded to try and marginalize all these harms and build sympathy for the illegal alien. One is that they want a better life. Well, so do bank robbers so should we amnesty all of them or keep them together with their families when they do wrong? The other argument of significance is that anyone against amnesty is a racist. Wow, really? And precisely which race or ethnicity is being targeted, given the fact that illegal aliens come from dozens of countries and are of every known race on the planet including Whites? Try again dummies! (16)

Incredibly, the Hobson’s choice has been decreed by the all knowing un-thinkers on Capitol Hill when they ask, “Well, just how are we going to get rid of 12 million illegal aliens—we cannot round them all up—are you stupid!” No, smarty pants. We can just look at history and see how to do it. You might buy a history book if you know how to read Senator?

In 1954, President Eisenhower conducted Operation Wetback and by enforcing the immigration laws robustly for only about 4 months, an estimated 1 million illegal aliens returned home on their own not wanting to be arrested and jailed. The reality is, Eisenhower only had a very small police force at work—nothing even remotely compared today’s Homeland Security—as many as 6 million would likely flee in less than 4 months this day in age so in less than a year, problem solved—but it takes leadership and common sense and a love for America and Americans and not people willing to sell the country out at all costs.

Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, LA Times, New York Times, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Luis Gutierrez, and others who push the far left’s agenda and support illegal immigration and amnesty in any way, even via sick-minded compromises, are in reality, displaying either ignorance or incompetence on the issue, or hidden agendas, but certainly not humanitarianism—for it cannot be considered humane to embrace illegal immigration and an amnesty that fuels, not hinders, greater holes in our collective national and economic security as a nation and people or allows the ongoing and needless harms and deaths of Americans on American soil.

It is tantamount to having a starving family in the home and leaving the front door open to outsiders to come in and steal the food off the table, then commit heinous crimes on the family members, then, if they are really evil types, leave while blowing up the house—does such a willy-nilly approach to personal and national security make any logical sense unless you are an anarchist or corporate raider pillaging America by encouraging a slave labor market or simply a far leftist who is ignorant and uninformed or a radical or even a terrorist sympathizer?

For any sitting Congressperson or president to condone illegal immigration and seek to reward it, it is a categorical disgrace to our nation and citizens. The reality is, such a move offers potential aid and abetment to a legally “declared enemy” of the United States—for among the illegal aliens have been proven to be members of Al Qaeda–remember this fact–any acts by any US citizens, leader or not, that helps a “declared enemy” is by law treasonous—keep that hard reality in mind on the day an amnesty is declared–what it means is treason, plain and simple!

Yet on a more mundane and perhaps practical side, ask yourself this… Where is the pay-off for rewarding and condoning illegal immigration and forwarding an amnesty? Where is the benefit to Americans once all the negative aspects are taken into account? How does America benefit, given the weight and gravity of this highly complex issue? Who wins and why? And who loses and what are the consequences of that loss? Is America herself being put at risk needlessly? If so, why?

In the days of old, American Patriot and wise man Benjamin Franklin had a very sound method for calculating decisions. He placed all the positive items for a given issue in one column, and all the negative items in another column, and whichever column had the most items, that column determined his decision. We should apply his decision mythology here, on the issue of illegal immigration. And if we do, we will quickly learn that for every positive aspect in support of an amnesty, there are about half a dozen items on the other side of the column against it.

If you want to see all the issues and negative aspects versus positive ones, then take the time to read the PUA’s Operation Safe America report—it will open your eyes and scare the living hell out of you if you are an American! (7)
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Sidebar Facts
The US federal government currently considers it a mere civil offense to enter the US illegally or to overstay a visa. (20) Therefore we begin with the assumption that all aliens are not criminals. However, given the fact that in order to live or work in the US, documents are needed, and securing those documents if here illegally requires breaking the law, we can therefore assume at least 66% (2/3) of those here illegally have committed a serious crime. When we add in these other statistics across the entire illegal alien population in the US, we can see that except for children, there is a high probability that over 95% of all illegal aliens have committed at least one or more serious crimes.

Here is a partial list of those crimes governments at all levels have attributed to so called “undocumented workers” aka illegal aliens:

1. Crossing the border again illegally after having once been caught and deported (a felony—some estimates by US federal agencies and others have suggested 92% of all those in the US illegally fall into this category).

2. Categories Include:
a. Property Crimes
b. Manufacturer and Sale of Drugs
c. Human Trafficking
d. Unlawful Employment (Employment Fraud)
e. Tax Fraud
f. Kidnapping
g. Felony DUI
h. Criminal Impersonation (IT Theft / Fraud)
i. Forgery and Related Fraud
j. Smuggling
k. Murder

3. Studies have now proven that so called “illegal immigration” is highly related to a rise in crime rates. One county alone reports that the average violent crime cost and property crime cost US citizens about $20,000 and $4,363 per event. (20)

4. Some estimates claim that just under 1/3 of the total US prison population is illegal aliens.
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References
(1) GAO: Identity Fraud: Prevalence and Links To Alien Illegal Activities (June 25, 2002)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02830t.pdf

(2) GAO: Identity Theft, Available Data Indicate Growth In Prevalence and Cost (June 25, 2002)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02830t.pdf

(3) New York Times: Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions (April 5, 2005)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/05immigration.html?_r=1

(4) Examiner: Illegal Aliens Can’t Dodge Identity Theft Charges In Utah (Dec 28, 2009)
http://www.examiner.com/x-32429-Salt-Lake-City-Immigration-Examiner~y2009m12d28-Illegal-aliens-cant-dodge-identity-theft-charges-in-Utah?cid=exrss-Salt-Lake-City-Immigration-Examiner

(5) Examiner: Illegal Aliens Arrested While Working At New York Airport (Dec 19, 2009)
http://www.examiner.com/x-32429-Salt-Lake-City-Immigration-Examiner~y2009m12d19-Illegal-Aliens-arrested-while-working-at-New-York-Airport

(6) Google Library Index: Illegal Aliens Operation Tarmac (2009)
Illegal Aliens – Operation Tarmac http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/2447/Illegal-Aliens-OPERATION-TARMAC.html#ixzz0cFJaiFhc
GAO Study:
http://www.gao.gov/htext/d0482.html

(7) Patriot Union of America: Operation Safe America Report (Rev. Dec 7, 2007)
http://www.patriotunion.org/docs_and_reports/in-house/operation_safe_america_report.htm

>[Note: This article (below) offers related statistics using different sources and figures worth reviewing (note also that the statistics quoted are not inconsistent with those reported here but rather differ in method of gathering, agency, and dates quoted or examples used: "US Barely Escapes Nuclear Sabotage By Illegal Aliens?"]

(8) Identity Theft.Com: How Costly Is Identity Theft Anyway (Dec 8, 2008)
http://www.identitytheft.com/index.php/blog/sarah/how_costly_is_identity_theft

(9) GAO: Border Security – US-VISIT Program Faces Strategic, Operational, and Technological Challenges at Land Ports of Entry (Jan 31, 2007)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07378t.pdf

(10) GAO: Overstay Tracking – A key Component Of Homeland Security and a Layered Defense
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0482.pdf

(11) Xelan Bonn: Facts Prove Obama Against US Workers (June 16, 2008)
http://xelanbonn.com/192/facts-prove-obama-against-us-workers/
{Note: This a fact filled article with many third party references that every American should read and investigate).

(12) Xelan Bonn: Immigration Reform – Amnesty Or Common Sense And Value Reform?
http://xelanbonn.com/631/immigration-reform-amnesty-or-common-sense-security-and-value-reform/

(13) Xelan Bonn: America’s Death Predicted In Just 3 Years
http://xelanbonn.com/280/americas-death-predicted-in-just-3-years/

(14) Ryan Normandin – MIT: Illegal Immigration, It’s Illegal (Jan 13, 2010)
http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N61/normandin.html

(15) Patriot Union: Could Amnesty Bankrupt US Economy? (Sept 27, 2007)
http://patriotunion.jupiterflyer.com/news/by_issue/immigration/could_amnesty_bankrupt_economy.htm

(16) Open CRS: Top 25 OTM Countries (Which Proves This Is Not A Race Issue)
http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33097_20050922.pdf

(17) The Washington Post: U.S. is unprepared for major bioterrorism attack, commission finds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012601265.html

(18)Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism: Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Report Cardhttp://www.preventwmd.gov/prevention_of_wmd_proliferation_and_terrorism_report_card/

PDF Report: http://www.preventwmd.gov/static/docs/report-card.pdf

(19) Pajamas Media: Illegal Aliens Are Not Criminals (Feb 21, 2010)
http://www.pajamasmedia.com/blog/illegal-aliens-are-not-criminals/

Additional Statistical Reports
This report show illegal alien crime statistics which are shocking. In some cases, nearly all crimes in a certain category come strictly from illegal aliens).

(20) Maraopa County (AZ) Attorney Andrew P Thomas (2008 – 2 page PDF summary release)
http://www.mcaodocuments.com/press/20081002_a.pdf

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