The Open Border Means Crime Without Borders

Indeed. We're back to the days of Pancho Villa conducting armed raids into the US.

The Many Ways a Porous Border Means Crime Without Boundaries

By James Varney & Abigail Degnan, RealClearInvestigations

When President Biden's supporters attacked him for describing the man who allegedly murdered Georgia co-ed Laken Reilly as an "illegal," they shined a light on one of the most contested words in American politics.

The progressive push to describe border crossers as undocumented or unauthorized can also serve to downplay and obscure the massive issue of crime perpetrated and spawned by the influx of millions of migrants since Biden was elected -- often in ways that leave the migrants themselves as victims.

While migrant advocates argue that illegal arrivals commit crimes at lower rates than Americans, the claim is unverifiable because the federal government and most states do not break down crimes by immigration status.

Criminologists also note that it ignores the vast web of statutory crimes concurrent with illegal immigration -- drug smuggling, human trafficking, child labor violations, prostitution, the black market in employment, and so on.

What remains undeniable by the law of averages is that the massive surge in immigration since the Biden administration relaxed border policies -- a surge that it puts at more than 4 million people, but other sources millions more -- has been accompanied by much more crime, however unquantifiable.

Millions of migrants, though not all, run afoul of laws by their situation more than by overtly malign criminal intent. But their first step across the border is a lawbreaking one, and it is often followed by life on the law's margins: living in the U.S. without insurance or proper work papers, providing illicit labor for unscrupulous or blasé employers, turning to black markets for counterfeit Social Security cards, and often becoming targets for robbers or extortionists. Their desire to come to America creates a vast pool of criminality involving them or those illegally profiting from them.

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"Even people who may come here with no criminal intent at all may find themselves involved in some sort of criminal activity because the cartels that control the immigration channels are going to get their money one way or another," said Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation of American Immigration Reform, which seeks policies to seal the border from illegal penetrations. "Going to work for the cartels is one way they can pay off their debts. Others may find themselves pressed into indentured servitude or, even worse, being trafficked in the sex trades."

Thanks to Biden inviting illegal aliens to flood the border, massive amounts of crime and victimization begin in the cartel-organized caravans.

"It's not all about killings -- they are getting raped and robbed, too," Bensman said. "There are loan sharks who let victims know they know where family members are located -- that's a crime. And people are desperate, they are forced to steal food, there have been assaults on police, and recently a camp in Panama was burned down."

Criminologists say part of the problem in measuring migrant-related crime in the United States is "sanctuary" jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration agencies. Sanctuary enforcement is also not a category traditionally tracked by law enforcement agencies. Nowrasteh said that several years ago he sent Freedom of Information Act requests to all 50 states seeking data on crime committed by or on immigrants and only Texas offered a response. Since then, he believes, Georgia has begun amassing statistics, but the state has not yet issued any public reports.

Grim arithmetic suggests the human costs of the unprecedented tide of illegal immigration under Biden, according to multiple reports and congressional testimony. A case in point is the hundreds of thousands of "unaccompanied alien children," the innocuous-sounding phrase employed by a bureaucracy focused on avoiding the use of "illegals" who are newly arrived in the Biden years. Their oversight and handling has been mishandled, unintentionally or otherwise, by federal agencies, with the results of minors being trafficked and U.S. child labor laws being violated.

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RealClearInvestigations has reported that many of the drug dealers who have turned San Francisco's Tenderloin district into an open-air drug market are migrants connected to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. "The drug pushers are easy to spot: Unlike the users, they look healthy and wear clean clothes," Leighton Woodhouse reported. "They're almost universally young men, mostly Honduran (on the streets of San Francisco they're called "Hondos")."

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Other Americans fall victim to crime connected to migration. For example, seizures of fentanyl, the synthetic painkiller the Centers for Disease Control blamed for a record 112,000 overdose deaths in 2023, have skyrocketed. In 2021, law enforcement agencies seized some 11.2 thousand pounds of the lethal drug, but in just two years the Chinese-abetted trade through Mexico has more than doubled, hitting 27,000 pounds last year, according to Customs and Border Patrol figures. Some immigration and drug experts believe the vast numbers of people crossing the border make it harder to interdict the flow of narcotics into the U.S.

The article explores the left's claim that US citzens commit crimes at rates 2 to 2 1/2 times higher than illegal aliens. But the article notes that jurisdictions simply do not collect data on immigration status of offenders, making all of this guesswork. And further, the article repeatedly notes the huge amount of subterranean crime -- huge numbers of migrant children impressed into prostitution -- that simply never make it into the statistics.

Of course, all of this argumentation avoids the real issue: The correct number of crimes committed by illegal aliens in the US should be zero. They should not fucking be here. It wouldn't matter if they committed murder at 50% the rate of US citizens: We are forced to abide the presence of US citizen criminals. The US does not permit exile or deportation of criminals.

But we are not required to abide the presence of illegal aliens.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:23 PM

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