February, 2020, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: The Democrats Love For Illegal Immigrants, Including Criminals, Over The Needs Of Americans

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Liberals and Democrats have decided that illegal immigrants are more important than both needy Americans (i.e. those that are homeless, hungry, and drug addicted) and the protection of the lives and property of Americans. Democrats flock down to the border or actually into Mexico to give solace and support to illegal immigrants but never seem to have the time to visit the homeless encampments or food banks serving needy Americans.

The other proof of their disdain for the welfare of Americans is their insistence that they not cooperate with the Federal government in finding and prosecuting and/or deporting violent illegal immigrant criminals. In other words, they would rather protect violent criminals than protect the lives and property of American citizens.

The result of their “sanctuary cities,” which protect violent illegal immigrant criminals, was illustrated by a recent set of ICE raids:

• These New Jersey ICE raids resulted in the apprehension of over 100 violent illegal immigrant criminals.
• Two of those captured were from Brazil and El Salvador and were wanted for murder.
• One of those taken into custody was from the violent Salvadoran MS-13 gang.
• Another illegal immigrant was a child abuser from Mexico that had previously been deported.
• A previously deported Mexican national convicted of criminal sexual contact involving a minor was brought into custody.
• A 22-year-old Dominican national member of the Trinitarios gang, who has weapons and theft convictions, was brought into custody.
• A 45-year-old Salvadoran national who has convictions for child endangerment and DUI was brought into custody.
• A 50-year-old Bolivian national who has multiple convictions for child endangerment, hindering apprehension and DUI was brought into custody.
• A 55-year-old United Kingdom national convicted of arson, domestic violence and drug dealing was brought into custody.
• A 58-year-old Peruvian national wanted for extortion in Peru was brought into custody.
• A 44-year-old Salvadoran national who has a conviction for endangering the welfare of a child was brought into custody.
• A 42-year-old Jamaican national convicted of drug smuggling and exporting cocaine was brought into custody.
• A 31-year-old previously deported Guatemalan national who has convictions for domestic violence and DUI was brought into custody.
• Of the 155 illegal immigrants that were rounded up, 85% had prior convictions or pending criminal charges over their heads.

This was one raid in one state, New Jersey. And yet over 100 dangerous people were taken off the street. And yet Democrats across the country continue to want to protect these often violent, child abusing illegal immigrants from meeting justice. In the meantime, American kids, adults, and their properties are in constant danger from the lives of these 115 people. 

I can see the compassion from these folks for innocent illegal immigrants who are just wanting a better life. But I am mystified by these politicians that protect violent criminals from justice while at the same time risking the safety of Americans.

2) Let’s look at some hard statistics as it applies to illegal immigrant criminal activity:

• A recent Department of Justice crime report found that a whopping 64% of all Federal arrests were made up of non-citizens, both legal and illegal immigrants.
• Twenty years ago this number was only 37%.
• Specifically: “The report also says, “Non-U.S. citizens, who make up 7% of the U.S. population (per the U.S. Census Bureau for 2017), accounted for 15% of all federal arrests and 15% of prosecutions in U.S. district court for non-immigration crimes in 2018 … Ninety-five percent of the increase in federal arrests across 20 years was due to immigration offenses.””
• Federal government arrests of non-citizens tripled from 1998 to 2018, an increase of 234% while the Federal arrest of U.S. citizens went up only 18%.
• In 2018, 24% of all Federal drug arrests were for non-U.S. citizens, 25% of Federal property arrests were non-citizens, and 28% of all Federal fraud arrests were non-U.S. citizens.

Okay, how much less would our police, prison, and other legal costs be in this country if we had a secure border and a fair, compassionate immigration process? Instead, we have runaway crime from non-U.S. citizens and as we learned above, we have some various dangerous illegal immigrant criminals running free in our towns and cities. Given that a primary function of government is to protect its citizens, this government, mostly Democrats are not doing their basic duties as government officials.

3) Looks like it will be a criminal illegal immigration focused day. The Federation for American Immigration Reform, FAIR, recently released their research concerning illegal immigration in smaller American cities and states. The highlights and low lights of their research found that:

• New Hampshire, Mississippi, Alaska, Maine, North Dakota, West Virginia, South Dakota, Vermont, Montana and Wyoming have the smallest populations of foreign-born residents, 415,000 on total of which about 20% , 81,000, of these folks are illegal immigrants.
• These illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers in these states $454 million a year.
• Each of these illegal immigrants cost carry a tax deficit of between $4,000 and $6,500 a year, i.e. this is the difference between the tax revenue collected from these folks and the taxpayer wealth that is paid out for them.
• About 35,000 of these 81,000 illegal immigrants are kids which puts additional pressure and costs on public school systems in these states.
• Consider what happened to Lewiston, Maine schools: “A prime example is Lewiston, Maine. Over the past 15 years, more than 7,500 migrants – most of whom are refugees from dozens of different countries – have resettled in the town, which has a population of less than 40,000. As is often the case, residents and city officials had no say in the resettlement process and little warning that these migrants were going to be placed in their community. According to former Mayor Laurier T. Raymond Jr., the city became “maxed-out financially, physically, and emotionally.””
• As a result, the quality of teaching has suffered for all students as teachers have to cope with 34 different languages in their classrooms.
• Some schools in North and South Dakota have had to transfer funds for special needs students to pay for immigrant kids who do not speak English.
• The FAIR report also discussed the reality that foreign workers, both legal and illegal, in these smaller states and their downs exert downward pressure on wages for American workers.
• And the impact is not just on school systems, FAIR explains how immigrants are much more likely to use emergency medical services vs. going to a doctor’s office, putting additional financial and resource pressure on struggling rural medical systems.

That will do it for today’s illegal immigrant political class insanity. As liberals and Democrats continue to protect and support illegal immigrants, often illegal immigrants that are violent criminal elements, the safety, the tax dollars, and the limited social resources that would normally go to taxpaying Americans is severely sacrificed and often fatal. 

Which means that Democrats in this area have failed at a top priority of and reason for government: the protection of citizens.

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