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Friday, April 30, 2010

Another "Gee, Who Knew?" Moment, this time on illegals

From Fox News, via Lucianne:
Border States Deal With More Illegal Immigrant Crime Than Most, Data Suggest
(Gee, ya' think? It took studies to find this out? why didn't they just ask us?)
Arizona lawmakers say their new immigration enforcement law will them fight an illegal immigrant crime wave that is sweeping the state, a claim that is backed by studies and statistics that suggest border states have a disproportionately high number of criminals who are illegal immigrants......
.......While the correlation between illegal immigrants and crime is almost impossible to quantify precisely, the available numbers indicate that Arizona -- as well as California and Texas -- are dealing with increased crime as a result of high illegal immigrant populations and activity.
You need to skip over and read it all, then notice that even though it shows this:
The report also showed that assaults against U.S. law enforcement on the southwestern border are on the rise. The report found that the number of attacks on Border Patrol agents increased 46 percent to 1,097 incidents in fiscal 2008. The report said the assaults were mostly related to immigrant smuggling.
It then goes on to say this:
Together, Arizona, California and Texas are now home to 4.7 million of the 11 million illegal immigrants the Department of Homeland Security estimates are in the country. But for those immigrants who are being caught and convicted, their immigration status itself is often the offense.
The Pew Hispanic Center study from February 2009 found that even though Hispanics make up 13 percent of the adult population, they accounted for 40 percent of sentenced federal offenders in 2007. Almost half of those offenses were immigration-related.

1 comment:

  1. They didn't ask us because they think we are stupid rubes who don't know nothin'!!

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