LatinaLista — Tucson television station KOLD News 13 had a scoop that couldn’t be ignored – but then again, maybe it should have been.
Or at the least, reported in a style more becoming of a news organization and less like paparazzi salivating over a celebrity.
The story was about a security alert in Southern Arizona issued by the FBI and outlining a possible threat directed at Fort Huachuca.
The only trouble is the news report is based on a document that was 6 months old and by the FBI’s own admission was something that was never “completely evaluated.”
So, what is a news organization doing disseminating information when they don’t have all the facts?
Obviously, they’re going after ratings.
The news report (using the word report loosely in this case) was centered on an alert document that the FBI gave to local law enforcement.
The document gives no timetable or explanation of how the threat will be carried out. But does say, “a group of Iraqis may have entered the United States through tunnels from Mexico into Arizona,” and those same “Iraqis are believed to be the ones who will perpetrate the attack on Fort Huachuca.”
The news station further reported that the document said the Iraqis could be hiding out on an “unidentified Indian reservation” in Arizona. With that little bit of confirmation, the news reporters speculated on which Indian reservation it could be, naming the Tohono O’odham Nation reservation in the news report though they never had that information to begin with.
In addition, all the officials, other than the FBI, that the reporters approached regarding the alert and/or the document, no one outrightly confirmed it.
Lt. Col. Garner says, “We operate within that knowing that we are always a target, and then we take all precautions necessary whether it’s a general threat or a specific threat like the one you’re talking about.”
One former Congressman, who asked not to be identified for this report, said the document seems “dubious” and “without merit.” Not only that, it’s dated May 14th, 2007.
Yet, the reporters continued their pursuit of — the truth? Hardly. Next would be the stunned and scared reactions of local townspeople to news that something like this could be happening, literally, underfoot.
“I don’t know why we haven’t heard about it sooner, according to Gresham.””It’s pretty scary, our kids are here. This is where we live.”
Bevill says, “If this is being kept confidential, something so close to here, I think this of more importance than what we’re doing in Iraq. Seems like the kind of information that would benefit everybody here.”
Exactly!
So why aren’t more news stations reporting on this?
Because it’s only enough news to cause anxious feelings and more resentment towards our southern neighbor — it’s not enough news to make it true.
In these times where vigilance is the wisest course of action for anyone to take, news organizations have the greater responsibility to be vigilant themselves and not fall willful party to publicizing news that has no merit other than to create an atmosphere of fear and mistrust.
Comment(16)
Horace
Why should this disturb you, Marisa. It is a highly probable scenario to have terrorists coming into this country under cover of illegal immigrants, after all, we receive drug smugglers, murderers, rapists and gang members by illegal entry through our borders, as much as we receive those who come for legitmate work. Is this new possibility just another one of those inconvenient truths that you’d like to be ignored because it might reflect negatively on your open borders concept?
Horace
One more thing. I consider the murders, rapists, thieves, and gang members other types of terrorists, because they have one thing in common with the common garden variety, they induce fear in our country. All should be identified, arrested, incarcerated and then deported.
yave begnet
I guess this is going to put a dent in our (so far unkept) promise to the people of Iraq to permit more Iraqi refugees to come to the U.S. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled–psych!
Here we see the real reason the Iraqi resettlement program has so miserably failed–not because of logistical difficulties, as the DOS claims, but because the government wets its pants at the thought of more of our Iraqi ‘brothers and sisters in freedom’ actually coming to the U.S.
we receive drug smugglers, murderers, rapists and gang members by illegal entry through our borders
We grow a few of those right here at home, too.
Again we see elements of the media working hand in hand with the Bush administration. It’s a win-win-lose situation: ratings go up, Bush gets a free hand with a cowed populace, and the American people lose otra vez.
Horace
I rest my case, 5 Mexican illegal aliens who would otherwise terrorize our communities with their violent behavior were recently arrested, and this is only the tip of the iceberg. What is the difference between the actions of Islamic radicals and such people?
Background checks lead to arrests of 6
RYN GARGULINSKI
Tucson Citizen
Six men – four of them with felony convictions – have been arrested at or near the border since Thursday after routine background checks, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Five of those arrested were Mexican nationals.
The first arrested was Mexican national Jose Arceo-Vasquez, 45, who was stopped near Sells on Thursday, the release said. Once processed at the Casa Grande Border Patrol station, agents found he had four convictions in Los Angeles, the release said.
They include accessory to murder in 1988, felon in possession of a firearm in 1996 and two from last year, burglary and grand theft.
U.S. citizen Manuel Sanchez, 41, was arrested Friday after he was stopped while allegedly trying to smuggle 350 pounds of marijuana into the U.S., the release said.
Sanchez’s background check at the Nogales Border Patrol station turned up a conviction for burglary in Chandler in 1984 and kidnapping in Globe in 1993, the release said.
Also Friday, a Mexican national with two Los Angeles warrants for his arrest on drug charges was taken into custody at the Naco Border Patrol Station.
Because he has not been convicted , the 37-year-old’s name was not released.
A 32-year-old Mexican national, whose name was not released, was arrested Saturday when a background check at the Nogales station revealed he was the principal subject in a homicide investigation in Phoenix, the release said.
Two more Mexican nationals were arrested Monday, the release said.
Fernando Pech-Salzar, 39, and David Morales Castillo, 22, were taken to the Tucson Border Patrol station, where their criminal histories were discovered, the release said.
Pech-Salzar had been convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age by force in California in 1994 and re-entry by an aggravated felon when he tried to illegally enter the Unites States in 2002.
Morales Castillo’s record showed a second-degree murder conviction in New York in 2005.
The release said all of the men are in custody until they are prosecuted or extradited.
Six men – four of them with felony convictions – have been arrested at or near the border since Thursday after routine background checks, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Five of those arrested were Mexican nationals.
Horace
“We grow a few of those right here at home, too.”
So, yeve, we should invite more by leaving our borders unsecured? Such logic is why your side is losing ground. Only a fence or increasing our vigilence at our borders will serve as deterrence to these people. An amnesty or jobs program won’t work, as these people wouldn’t be interested. Borders would still mean nothing to them.
Horace
“Here we see the real reason the Iraqi resettlement program has so miserably failed–not because of logistical difficulties, as the DOS claims, but because the government wets its pants at the thought of more of our Iraqi ‘brothers and sisters in freedom’ actually coming to the U.S.”
Gee, that’s just what we need, yeve, brothers and sisters who are in the middle of a civil war, whose mindset is purely tribal, and prone to taking to violence to solve their issues. Moreover, we see the affects of tribalism in England every day, where Pakistanis resort to Sharia law to punish their own. We hear of wives beaten, daughters murdered or mutilated, all because they transgress religious laws or bring shame upon their families by breaking with tradition. I won’t go so far as calling you an idiot, yeve, but your nievete on most issues makes you one of the most pathetic people I’ve followed across these blogs. There are many ethnic groups where assimilation fails to take. Look at France, where Moslems remain isolatated within their communities and have taken to the streets in fits of mayhem and destruction of property. Your nieve belief that all cultures will come to a happy equilibrium after coming here is plain ignorant.
Frank
Well stated, Horace!
yave begnet
I won’t go so far as calling you an idiot, yeve
Thank god, I don’t know how I would recover from that.
Horace
We all know how sensitive you are yeve, but I’ll say it anyway, you’re an idiot. Now go sulk in a corner. Where should I send the flowers?
dave
Lets just do background checks on all people crossing the border. then the world will be safer.I live in Nogales and yes Mexican Nationals have criminals coming in and out all the time, Does anyone hold Canadians as criminals as well?Does anyone know that Canadian police have busted 22 terror plots since 9-11? There are more border agents here in Nogales than the entire Canadian border which is 4000 miles long. Next time one of you hears the phrase protecting the border understand that is a lie and we are fools to believe our government.
charles
JEEZ! Horace, you hisoues bigoted moron, don’t you have anything to do other than hassle people of color. why don’t you go back under the slimey roack you crawled out of. or better yet, why don’t you move to an all-white country? you’d be happier, the people her would be happier. knowing you only from your hideous posts here, you are a miserable human being. i wish i could pity you, but it’s your own choice.
Frank
Hassle people of color? What has skin color to do with being opposed to illegal immigration because it is against the law? Illegals come in all skin colors including White skin. Nice try race card puller, but no cigar.
Horace
Charles, does that mean that our date is off?
laura
My friends, why not stick to the facts ? The facts are that immigrants commit less violent crimes than native-born citizens.
Some excerpts from a statement dated 7/2/2007 of the undersigned jurists and sociologists:
One of the most pervasive misperceptions about immigrants is that they are more likely to commit predatory crimes than are the native-born. Popular movies, television series, and a sensationalizing news media propagate the enduring image of immigrant communities permeated by crime and violence. But this widespread belief is simply wrong.
Numerous studies by independent researchers and government commissions over the past 100 years repeatedly and consistently have found that, in fact, immigrants are less likely to commit crimes or to be behind bars than are the native-born. This is true for the nation as a whole, as well as for cities with large immigrant populations such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Miami, and cities along the U.S.-Mexico border such as San Diego and El Paso.
Immigrants in every ethnic group in the United States have lower rates of crime and imprisonment than do the native born. This is true for all immigrant groups Â- including the Mexicans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans who comprise most of the undocumented immigrants in the country. Even though immigrants from these countries are far more likely than natives to have less than a high-school education and to live in poverty, they are far less likely to be behind bars or to commit crimes. Moreover, teenage immigrants are much less likely than native-born adolescents to engage in risk behaviors such as delinquency, violence, and substance abuse that often lead to imprisonment.
Signatories:
Richard D. Alba
The University at Albany, State University of New York
Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy
Sarah Babb
Boston College
Associate Professor of Sociology
Stanley R. Bailey
University of California, Irvine
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Susan Benesch
Georgetown University Law Center
Fellow, Center for Applied Legal Studies
Ann Benson
Immigration Project, Washington Defender Association
Directing Attorney
Irene Bloemraad
University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Kitty Calavita
University of California, Irvine
Professor of Criminology, Law and Society
Patrick J. Carr
Rutgers University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Miguel Ceballos
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies
Jorge Chapa
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Sociology and Director, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
Leo R. Chávez
University of California, Irvine
Professor of Anthropology
Linda Chavez
One Nation Indivisible
President
David Cook-MartÃn
Grinnell College
Assistant Professor of Sociology
G. David Curry
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Cynthia GarcÃa Coll
Brown University
Charles Pitt Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Education, Psychology and Pediatrics
Wayne A. Cornelius
University of California, San Diego
Theodore Gildred Distinguished Professor of Political Science and U.S.-Mexican Relations, and Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Mark E. Courtney
University of Chicago
McCormick Tribune Professor of Social Service Administration, and Past Director, Chapin Hall Center for Children
Pawan Dhingra
Oberlin College
Associate Professor of Sociology and Comparative American Studies
Cynthia Duarte
Quinnipiac University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Finn Esbensen
University of Missouri-St. Louis
E. Desmond Lee Chair in Youth Crime and Violence, and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Walter A. Ewing
Immigration Policy Center, American Immigration Law Foundation
Research Associate
Joe R. Feagin
Texas A&M University
Professor of Sociology and Past President, American Sociological Association
Lynne R. Feldman
University of Illinois College of Law
Adjunct Professor
Katherine Fennelly
University of Minnesota
Professor and Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs
Nancy Foner
Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Bill Form
Ohio State University
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Reanne Frank
Ohio State University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Brian Fry
Indiana Wesleyan University
Associate Professor of Sociology
Andrew J. Fuligni
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Elizabeth Fussell
Tulane University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Roberta Garner
DePaul University
Professor and Chair of Sociology
Tanya Golash-Boza
University of Kansas
Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies
William A. Gamson
Boston College
Past President, American Sociological Association
Herbert J Gans
Columbia University
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, and Past President, American Sociological Association
Paul S. Gray
Boston College
Associate Professor of Sociology
John Hagan
Northwestern University
John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, and Editor of Annual Review of Law & Social Science
Marilyn Halter
Boston University
Professor of History and Director, American & New England Studies Program Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
Douglas Hartmann
University of Minnesota
Associate Professor of Sociology
Angela J. Hattery
Wake Forest University
Zachary T. Smith Reynolds Associate Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies
Bruce D. Haynes
University of California, Davis
Associate Professor of Sociology
Bill Ong Hing
University of California, Davis
Professor of Law
Julie Horney
The University at Albany, State University of New York
Dean and Professor, School of Criminal Justice
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Harvard University
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor
Jennifer Holdaway, Ph.D.
Social Science Research Council
Program Officer, International Migration Program
Michael Hout
University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Sociology and Demography
C. Ronald Huff
University of California, Irvine
Dean, School of Social Ecology, and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society
Charles Jaret
Georgia State University
Professor of Sociology
Paul Jesilow
University of California, Irvine
Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society
Tomás R. Jiménez
University of California, San Diego
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Benjamin E. Johnson
American Immigration Law Foundation
Executive Director
Susanne Jonas
University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Arne L. Kalleberg
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, and President-Elect, American Sociological Association
Daniel Kanstroom
Boston College Law School
Professor and Director of Human Rights Program
Philip Kasinitz
Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
Professor of Sociology, and Past President, Eastern Sociological Society
Robert Kaufman
Ohio State University
Professor of Sociology
Nazli Kibria
Boston University
Associate Professor of Sociology
Caitlin Killian
Drew University
Associate Professor of Sociology
Dae Young Kim
University of Maryland, College Park
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies
Peter Kivisto
Augustana College
Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and Chair of Sociology
Fred Kniss
Loyola University, Chicago
Professor and Chair of Sociology
Daniel M. Kowalski
Editor-in-Chief, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin
Lauren J. Krivo
Ohio State University
Professor of Sociology
Gary LaFree
University of Maryland, College Park
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Ralph W. Larkin
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Senior Research Associate
Janet L. Lauritsen
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Sylvia R. Lazos
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
Justice Myron Leavitt Professor of Law
Ivan Light
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Sociology
April Linton
University of California, San Diego
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Lyn H. Lofland
University of California, Davis
Professor of Sociology
Scott M. Lynch
Princeton University
Associate Professor of Sociology
Theo Majka
University of Dayton
Professor of Sociology
Ramiro MartÃnez, Jr.
Florida International University
Professor of Criminal Justice
Helen B. Marrow
Harvard University
Co-editor, The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965
Douglas S. Massey
Princeton University
Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; President, American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Past President, American Sociological Association,
Monica McDermott
Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Sara S. McLanahan
Princeton University
William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
M. Isabel Medina
Loyola University, New Orleans, College of Law
Ferris Family Professor of Law
Cecilia MenjÃvar
Arizona State University
Associate Professor of Sociology
Vanessa Merton
Pace University School of Law
Professor of Law and Faculty Supervisor, Immigration Justice Clinic, John Jay Legal Services, Inc.
Jon’a Meyer
Rutgers University
Associate Professor of Criminology
Jody Miller
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Associate Professor of Sociology
Teresa A. Miller
The University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York
Professor of Law
Joya Misra
University of Massachusetts
Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy
John H. Mollenkopf
City University of New York, Graduate Center
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Center for Urban Research
Jeylan T. Mortimer
University of Minnesota
Professor of Sociology
Nancy A. Naples
University of Connecticut
Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies
Katherine S. Newman
Princeton University
Forbes ’41 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Dina G. Okamoto
University of California, Davis
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Michael A. Olivas
University of Houston Law Center
William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law, and Director, Institute of Higher Education Law and Governance
D. Wayne Osgood
The Pennsylvania State University
Professor, Crime, Law and Justice Program
Nancy K. Ota
Albany Law School
Professor of Law
Sarah Paoletti
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer, Transnational Legal Clinic
Karen F. Parker
University of Delaware
Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Mary Pattillo
Northwestern University
Professor and Chair of Sociology and African-American Studies
Susan Pearce, PhD
West Virginia University
Visiting Assistant Professor, Division of Sociology and Anthropology
David N. Pellow
University of California, San Diego
Professor of Ethnic Studies
Michael P. Predmore
Stanford University
Professor of Spanish
Robert D. Putnam
Harvard University
Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Mary Romero
Arizona State University
Professor of Sociology, Justice & Social Inquiry
Lory D. Rosenberg
Author, Immigration Law and Crimes
Former Appellate Immigration Judge, U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals; and Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law
Rubén G. Rumbaut
University of California, Irvine
Professor of Sociology
Robert J. Sampson
Harvard University
Henry Ford II Professor and Chair of Sociology
Mariano Sana
Louisiana State University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Alex M. Saragoza
University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Ethnic Studies
Leslie Salzinger
Boston College
Associate Professor of Sociology
Joachim J. Savelsberg
University of Minnesota
Professor of Sociology
Armin Schwegler
University of California, Irvine
Professor of Spanish Linguistics & Director of Global Cultures
Denise Segura
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor of Sociology
Carroll Seron
University of California, Irvine
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society
Andy Silverman
University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law
Joseph M. Livermore Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs
David A. Smith
University of California, Irvine
Professor of Sociology and Co-Editor, Contemporary Sociology
Robert Smith
Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Associate Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs
Deborah Smith
University of Montana School of Law
Adjunct Professor
Laurel Smith-Doerr
Boston University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dan R. Smulian
Brooklyn Law School
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law
Janet P. Stamatel
The University at Albany, State University of New York
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Norman H. Stamper, Ph.D.
Chief of Police, Seattle (Ret.), and Chief of Police, San Diego (Ret.)
Judith Stepan-Norris
University of California, Irvine
Professor of Sociology
Carola Suárez-Orozco
New York University
Chair and Professor of Applied Psychology; Co-Director of Immigration Studies, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, NYU
Terrance J. Taylor
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Associate Research Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Barrie Thorne
University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Sociology and Professor and Chair of Gender & Women’s Studies
Marta Tienda
Princeton University
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Past President, Population Association of America
Donald Tomaskovic-Devy
University of Massachusetts
Professor and Chair of Sociology
Enid Trucios-Haynes
University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law
Professor of Law
Ruth N. López Turley
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Jeffery T. Ulmer
The Pennsylvania State University
Associate Professor of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice
Abel Valenzuela Jr.
University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Edward Vargas
Indiana University-Bloomington
Associate Instructor of Public and Environmental Affairs
Alexander T. Vazsonyi
Auburn University
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Geoff Ward
Northeastern University
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
R. Stephen Warner
University of Illinois at Chicago
Professor of Sociology
Mary C. Waters
Harvard University
M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology
Deborah M. Weissman
University of North Carolina School of Law
Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs
Bruce Western
Princeton University
Professor of Sociology
Judith Wittner
Loyola University, Chicago
Professor of Sociology
Norman R. Yetman
The University of Kansas
Emeritus Professor of American Studies & Sociology
Min Zhou
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies
Aristide R. Zolberg
New School for Social Research
Walter Eberstadt Professor of Political Science
Frank M. Afflitto, Ph.D.
Kentucky Wesleyan College
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Alan Aja
Brooklyn College (CUNY)
Professor of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies
A. Aneesh
University of Wisconsin
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Studies
Judith Blau
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor
MarÃa Estela Brisk
Boston College
Professor, Lynch School of Education
Natasha Cabrera
University of Maryland
Professor
Charissa S. L. Cheah, Ph.D.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Assistant Professor of Psychology
José A. Cobas, Ph.D.
Arizona State University
Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics
Julie A. Dowling, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor of Latina/Latino Studies Program
Westy A. Egmont, PhD
Founder, Association of New Americans
Dina Francesca Haynes
New England School of Law
Professor
Matthew I. Hirsch
Widener University School of Law
Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law
Carol S. Huntsinger, Ph.D.
College of Lake County
Professor of Psychology and Education
Nikki Jones
University of California
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Christy Woodward Kaupert
San Antonio College
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Maria Kefalas
Saint Joseph’s University, Associate Professor
Director, Institute for Violence Research and Prevention
Gabriel Kuperminc, Ph.D.
Georgia State University
Associate Professor of Psychology
Thao Le, Ph.D., MPH
Colorado State University
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Peggy Levitt
Wellesley College
Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology
Ana S.Q. Liberato, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Dr Patrick McGovern
Princeton University
Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology
Janet S. Oh, Ph.D.
California State University Northridge
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Irma M. Olmedo
University of Illinois Chicago
Associate Professor
R.S. Oropesa
Department of Sociology
Professor of Sociology & Demography
Julia L. Perilla, Ph.D.
Georgia State University
Associate Professor of Psychology
Lesley Williams Reid
Georgia State University
Associate Professor of Sociology
Stephen T. Russell
University of Arizona
Professor of Family Studies & Human Development
Norton School of Family & Consumer Sciences
Traci Schlesinger, PhD
DePaul University
Assistant Professor
Lisa Patel Stevens, Ph.D.
Boston College
Assistant Professor
Frank
laura, first of all this isn’t about “immigrants” it is about illegal aliens. In Los Angeles alone the most outstanding warrants for arrest for heinous crimes is for illegal aliens.
There are many reasons to be opposed to illegal immigration and increased crime is only a part of it. My main objection is that it is against the law. Crime, uncontrolled population growth, competition for jobs. border security, overcrowded schools, jails and hospitals, unassimilation into our society, depletion of our natural resources, tax evasion, stolen I.D.’s and SS numbers are just the by products of illegal immigration.
Horace
“My friends, why not stick to the facts ? The facts are that immigrants commit less violent crimes than native-born citizens.”
The fact is Laura, all of your studies include the illegal alien subset in their set of immigrants. Legal immigrants, those who vastly outnumber the subset of illegal immigrants are vetted by the use of background checks, while illegal immigrants are not. It is logical to expect that legal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes, as we prohibit the immigration of the criminal element. It is impossible to make any concrete statements about illegal immigrants, as no one can do a separate study on them because they remain unknown, even in number. If one cannot determine the number who are illegal, then one cannot do the ratios to establish a rate. Laura, you are doing what every illegal alien advocate does, and that’s obfuscating the truth by citing erroneous information.
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