Enormous Cost Of Illegal Immigration: Criminal Aliens

By Frosty Wooldridge

April 21, 2008

President Bush brags, "They do the jobs that American citizens won't do."

He neglects to say, "Oh, and by the way, for slave wages, social security fraud, identity theft, drunk driving, trashing our schools, hospitals… and, oh, I shouldn't leave out— crime!"

Illegal alien migration into the United States costs American taxpayers

$346 billion annually (Primary cost only) as reported by the National Research Council. While employers of illegal aliens rake-in billions of dollars, the U.S. citizens subsidize what might be called organized "Slavery in 21st Century America."

Edwin Rubenstein exposes the gargantuan costs of illegal aliens in the National Research Council's new book: "The New Americans: Economic, Demographics and Fiscal Effects of Immigration." The Social Contract Winter 2007-08.

Rubenstein said, "Illegal criminal aliens play an increasingly large role in the Department of Justice's workload and budgetary needs. Criminal aliens are an increasing burden on U.S. prisons. In 1980, federal and state facilities housed 9,000 criminal aliens. By 2004 federal, state and local jails held:

Ø 46,000 in federal prisons

Ø 74,000 in state prisons

Ø 147,000 in local jails

"Between 27 and 29 percent of all prisoners in federal prisons are criminal aliens. More than 60 percent arrive from Mexico, a third-world nation – while the rest hail from 164 different countries."

Cost to you, gentle readers ?

In 2008, Bureau of Prisons calls for $5.4 billion. Because of budget shortfall, hindering enforcement, hundreds of thousands of illegal alien criminals still walk the streets. They prove that crime pays!

Rubenstein said, "The Government Accounting Office recently analyzed the rap sheets of more than 55,000 illegal convicted felons held in prisons.

It found:

The average criminal alien was arrested for 13 prior offenses.

12 percent were for murder, robbery, assault, and sexually related crimes.

Only 21 percent were immigration offenses; the rest were felonies committed against LOCAL U.S. residents.

81 percent of their arrests occurred after 1990.

"In a few words, criminal aliens are not casual lawbreakers. Most are recidivists… career criminals."

The DOJ-FBI tells us that fully ten percent of the illegal aliens arriving in the USA in 2008 are already seasoned criminals. Many of these are returning after deportation and/or removal.

"Doing the jobs that Americans won't do," Bush said.

"An overhaul of the FBI's IT (digital data storage, display, relational data-base, etc) capability is essential for border security," Rubenstein said. Unconscionable; crimes by foreign nationals are not properly tracked and reported. "In 2008, the FBI requested $90.5 million to improve its capabilities for providing identification services for federal immigration and law enforcement agencies."

Although rarely discussed, human trafficking expands into America like an unfettered virus. Trafficking supports modern-day slavery.

"An estimated 800,000 human beings are trafficked across international borders each year, "Rubenstein said. Other experts tell us these numbers are understated. "More than 17,500 victims are trafficked into the United States annually. A huge 80 percent of them are forced into sexual servitude."

YOUR tax-dollars are used to fight both sides of this insidious coin The DOJ spends $4.8 million and carries 34 positions in the Civil Rights Division's human trafficking initiative. Your tax dollars at work for something that shouldn't be going on in the first place… if Bush and Congress enforced our immigration laws!

Yet another aspect of this extensive criminal world stems from visa overstay absconders. Of the hundred million foreign nationals who visited the USA in 2007, some five million "forgot" to leave when their visa expired.

Federal judges Ordered 460,000 illegal aliens expelled via deportation or 'removal,' yet allowed them to go free without follow-up. Most remain in-country enjoying 30 American cities with 'sanctuary policy' that protects them from deportation. Inadequate budgeting denies our DHS-ICE the troops they need to do the job.

Folks, this will shock you; according to testimony in the U.S. Congress by the U.S. Marshal Service, in the USA in 2008 we NOW have 750,000 absconders (failure-to-appear in Court, though personally served) PLUS some 2,100,000 criminal aliens with active 'wants-and-warrants.' Yes, really.

Do you remember Pogo; We have met the enemy and they are our mayors, governors, President and Congress!

Not mentioned in the report, but mentioned by Newsweek last year, more than 15,000 MS-13 gang members (mostly illegal aliens) now operate in 33 states. What do they sell? They provide $130 billion in drugs to our kids and citizens annually.

How much do we spend to stop the drug trade?

According to www.leap.cc co-founder and retired police officer Howard Wooldridge, American taxpayers spend $6 billion per month on the War on Drugs… with little to zero results in the past 37 years. Drugs remain ample, pure and cheaper than in 1971 when the Drug War started under Nixon.

What remains most troubling about this incredible expenditure of our tax dollars? Our progressive majority in the U.S. Congress, working arm-in-arm with President Bush… knows exactly what continues down at the southern border, but refuses to spend any time or money that would once and for all— STOP illegal immigration.

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In the ongoing officialdom conspiracy – these elected leaders refuse to order the arrest, prosecution and incarceration of the criminals who employ tens of millions of illegal aliens… in big companies like Hormel, Tyson, Swift, Wendy's, McDonalds and other fast food companies… roofing contractors and big construction job contractors.

Therefore, our kids, our wives, daughters and we remain at the mercy of criminal aliens roaming our country untouched by un-enforced laws.

How do YOU feel about this lawless official malfeasance ?

As you read this, Bush and Congress provide one of the biggest frauds on the U.S. taxpayer in the 21st century. Does it jolt you? If our leadership watched the financial bottom line of the U.S. like an optimally run business, this criminal invasion would be stopped.

Instead, our three presidential candidates argue back and forth about who is wearing a flag lapel pin… while one of them tells us we fear immigrants not like us… so we turn to guns and religion.

Meanwhile, George Bush says, "These folks do the jobs that Americans won't do."

Just how dumb do they think we are ?

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Author's Personal Note

Final note: I am looking for thinkers, writers and advocates to add to my monthly “Master Mind Think Tank.” In reality, our politicians create the problems that they campaign to solve. They never solve them; thus we spiral into deeper national chaos. I need new ideas and new creative thinkers to help me bring our most pressing issues onto the front burner: overpopulation in America caused by ceaseless legal and illegal immigration. As you know, the recent PEW report shows immigration adding 100 million people to our country in 30 years. We need to stop it and we need to stop it now. Join me in saving our civilization.

Additionally: I am working on a book about loss of friendship. Have you lost a best friend? How did you feel? How did it happen? What caused the loss of your best friend? How did it affect your life? How did you heal from the emotional pain? If you would like to write two to five type-written pages, your story will be included in this forthcoming book with attribution or keep your name private. Please state that you give permission for me to use your story in this book: “Losing Your Best

Friend: Missing Pieces". Today, in America, our communities and friendships shatter because of misunderstandings, jealousies and high speed living. This book will help others who have suffered the loss of a best friend. 

Please contact me at: frostyw@juno.com

Author Bio

Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at his website www.frostywooldridge.com

Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on Tuesdays and Thursdays as he interviews top national leaders on his radio show “Connecting the Dots” at www.republicbroadcasting.org at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.