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Illegal alien crime wave.(Insider Report)
Although all illegal aliens are, by definition, criminals--they have violated our immigration laws--most do not come here with the intention of engaging in a life of street crime. Many violent foreign criminals, however, come to America precisely because it is considered a rich, soft target. "Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens," writes Heather MacDonald, a reporter for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. "Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status."
MacDonald's in-depth expose in the January 14 City, Journal, entitled "The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave," notes: "In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD's rule against enforcing immigration law."
How can this be? MacDonald explains: "The LAPD's ban on immigration enforcement ...
- L.A. shops change pleas to guilty in illegal aliens case.(Los Angeles,...
- Magazine article from: WWD Ellis, Kristi November 16, 1995 700+ words
LOS ANGELES - Six owners of three garment contracting...conspiracy and harboring and employing illegal aliens in September, have changed their...counts of conspiracy and harboring illegal aliens as well as to one misdemeanor - hiring...
- Police Who Nab Illegal Aliens.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 26, 2005 700+ words
...in the United States - the 10.3 million illegal aliens estimated to be in the country? As it is...racial profiling if they detain suspected illegal aliens. Some cities, notably Los Angeles, constrain police with "sanctuary" provisions...
- Illegal aliens `scared' by new law
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Tim Padgett January 26, 1987 700+ words
...Alfredo Torres de Jesus, are illegal aliens. They "want to lose themselves...s estimated 300,000 illegal aliens face another hurdle: applying...fourth-largest number of illegal aliens in the country behind Los Angeles, New York and Houston...
- 6 Illegal Aliens Arrested
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post March 9, 1989 700+ words
...nationwide crackdown on the smuggling of illegal aliens, arrested six undocumented Salvadorans...Last week INS officials arrested scores of illegal aliens at airports in Atlanta, Los Angeles and Charlotte, N.C. @Slug: B08ILL
- I.N.S. operations net 36 illegal aliens. (Immigration and Naturalization...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 21, 1989 700+ words
...apprehended five illegal aliens boarding buses bound...apprehended over 100 illegal aliens in the U.S. using...agents apprehended 79 illegal aliens aboard an Eastern Airlines flight from Los Angeles during a stopover here...
- 79 SUSPECTED ILLEGAL ALIENS SEIZED ON PLANE IN GA.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Associated Press February 28, 1989 700+ words
...79 suspected illegal aliens yesterday as...Airlines flight from Los Angeles made a stopover...that involves illegal aliens on board commercial...79 suspected illegal aliens apprehended yesterday...a flight from Los Angeles to New York...
- 69 MORE ILLEGAL ALIENS SEIZED ON CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Associated Press March 1, 1989 700+ words
LOS ANGELES - Immigration...overnight seized 69 illegal aliens about to board...authorities seized 79 illegal aliens during Eastern...Investigators believe illegal aliens boarded the Eastern...regularly flies from Los Angeles to Atlanta who...
- Agents nab 15 illegal aliens in Yuma.
- Newspaper article from: Sun (Yuma, AZ) February 3, 2006 700+ words
...apprehended fifteen illegal aliens who were in a vehicle...observed loaded with illegal aliens north of the U.S...Gramley said the illegal aliens said each paid $1...smuggled from Mexico to Los Angeles. Agents on the ground...
