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This past December, U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) personnel encountered 301,983 aliens who had crossed America’s unprotected southern border unlawfully. That astonishing, unprecedented figure pushed the total number of illegals who had entered U.S. territory during 2023 to roughly 2.54 million. If we include also the estimated 840,000 so-called “got-aways” known to have slipped into the American interior, the total jumps to about 3.4 million. That is more than the populations of all the cities in America except New York and Los Angeles, and more than the populations of 22 separate U.S. states – all in just a single year.
These figures stand in stark contrast to those of 2020, the final year of the Trump administration, when the corresponding numbers were 516,908 illegal-alien encounters with border authorities, plus another 119,000 “got-aways,” for a combined total of just under 636,000 unlawful intruders – scarcely 18.7 percent of the 2023 total.
Democrat defenders of open-borders immigration policies and their allies in the media have long claimed that illegal aliens make wonderful neighbors who, per capita, commit significantly fewer crimes against persons and property than do native-born American citizens. President Biden’s campaign co-chair Rep. Veronica Escobar, for example, repeated this mantra as recently as Friday on CNN Newsroom, in reaction to the high-profile murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, allegedly by a Venezuelan national living illegally in the United States.
But common sense alone should tell us that people who blithely ignore American immigration laws are likely to disrespect federal, state and local laws as well. Indeed, as Ronald Mortensen pointed out in The Hill, “virtually all adult, illegal aliens commit felonies” such as forgery, fraud, identity theft, and perjury, “to procure the documents they need to get jobs, to drive and to obtain other benefits that are restricted to U.S. citizens.” These documents include Social Security cards, drivers’ licenses, green cards, birth certificates, and I-9 forms, among others.
The crimes of illegal aliens also include a multitude of violent, bloody, highly destructive offenses. And this is by no means a new phenomenon. In 2005, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that looked at the criminal histories of 55,322 aliens who had “entered the country illegally and were still illegally in the country at the time of their incarceration in federal or state prison or local jail during fiscal year 2003.” Those 55,322 illegals had been arrested 459,614 times — an average of 8.3 arrests apiece — and had committed almost 700,000 separate criminal offenses, or roughly 12.7 offenses each. Approximately 12 percent of their arrests were for violent crimes such as homicide, robbery, assault, and sex-related offenses; 15 percent were for property offenses like burglary, larceny, theft, and vandalism; 24 percent were for drug crimes; and the rest were for a wide array of transgressions like DUI, fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, weapons violations, immigration crimes, and obstruction of justice.
Between 2003 and 2009, illegals in the U.S. committed approximately 70,000 sex crimes, 42,000 robberies, 81,000 auto thefts, 95,000 weapons offenses, and 213,000 assaults. During that same period, some 115,717 murders were committed nationwide, of which 25,064 were carried out by “criminal aliens.”
In 2009, a total of 295,959 criminal aliens were incarcerated in state jails and prisons across the United States. Approximately 227,600 of them – or 77 percent — were in the U.S. illegally. And the crimes they committed were very often serious. Consider, for instance, the following crime statistics for five particular states with large illegal-alien populations. Setting aside traffic offenses:
- 41 percent of all illegal-alien convictions in Arizona were for drug crimes and assault;
- about half of such convictions in California and Texas were for drugs, assault, and sex offenses;
- roughly 50 percent of such convictions were for drug offenses, sex crimes, burglary, and robbery; and
- in New York, 23 percent were for drug-related offenses, while an astonishing 27 percent were for homicide.
The border state Texas has been hit particularly hard by the criminal behavior of illegal aliens. According to an analysis conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), 177,588 unique foreign-criminal-alien defendants were booked into Texas county jails between October 2008 and April 2014. Their crimes included at least 611,234 offenses, among which were 2,993 homicides and 7,695 sexual assaults. Between June 1, 2011, and November 30, 2021, some 356,000 criminal aliens were booked into Texas jails. More than 243,000 of them – or 68 percent — were in the United States illegally.
Between 2012 and 2019, approximately 3.2375 of every 100,000 illegal aliens in Texas were convicted of homicide — a figure 29% higher than the rate among the overall Texas population. Even more strikingly, 19.125 of every 100,000 illegals in Texas were convicted of sexual assault during that same time frame – about double the 9.85 rate among all Texas residents. In 2014, illegal aliens in Texas were arrested for murder at a rate 56 percent higher than the rate for all other apprehended murderers statewide.
Also in 2014, illegal aliens – an estimated 3.5 percent of the U.S. population — accounted for 74.1 percent of all federal drug sentences nationwide, according to data from the United States Sentencing Commission, as well as 20 percent of the country’s kidnapping/hostage-taking sentences, 12 percent of its murder sentences, 19.4 percent of its national-defense related sentences, and 36.7 percent of federal crime sentences overall.
Between 2008 and 2014, criminal aliens were responsible for 38 percent of all murder convictions in California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York, though illegals were only 5.6% of the total population in those states.
In May 2016, Fox News reported that “a wildly disproportionate number of murderers, rapists and drug dealers are crossing into the U.S.” Most notably, illegals accounted for 13.6 percent of those who had been sentenced for all crimes committed nationwide in recent years, as well as 12 percent of those sentenced for murder, 20 percent of those sentenced for kidnapping, and 16 percent of those sentenced for drug trafficking.
A July 2018 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that:
- Between 2011 and 2016, criminal aliens accounted for anywhere between 21 and 25 percent of America’s federal inmate population.
- Between 2010 and 2015, state and local detention facilities across the U.S. housed some 533,000 criminal aliens who had been arrested approximately 3.5 million times for 5.5 million offenses including more than 1 million drug crimes, 500,000 assaults, 133,000 sex crimes, 24,000 kidnappings, 33,300 homicide-related offenses, and 1,500 crimes related to terrorism.
In a 2018 study of inmates who had been housed in Arizona state prisons since 1985, John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, concluded that:
Undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes and serve 10.5% longer sentences, [are] more likely to be classified as dangerous, and [are] 45% more likely to be gang members than U.S. citizens [are].… [Y]oung undocumented immigrants commit crime at twice the rate of young U.S. citizens. These undocumented immigrants also tend to commit more serious crimes.
In a study released in 2019, the Federation for American Immigration Reform examined the rate at which criminal illegal aliens were incarcerated in state and local correctional facilities in ten U.S. states whose illegal populations accounted for 65 percent of all illegals nationwide. In one of those states, Arizona, the average illegal alien was statistically 301% more likely to be incarcerated than the average legal immigrant residing there. In the other 9 states, the average illegal alien was:
- 231% more likely to be incarcerated than the average legal immigrant in California
- 78% more likely in Florida
- 161% more likely in Nevada
- 440% more likely in New Jersey
- 42% more likely in New Mexico
- 187% more likely in New York
- 267% more likely in Oregon
- 60% more likely in Texas
- 248% more likely in Washington
In December 2021, the U.S. Department Of Justice (DOJ) reported that of the roughly 41,000+ criminal aliens who had been prosecuted in federal courts nationwide in 2018, the vast majority—about 38,000—were in the United States illegally.
In October 2020, The Hill stated that according to the Department of Homeland Security’s most recent Alien Incarceration Report, fully “94 percent of confirmed aliens” who were imprisoned at the federal level were “unlawfully present in the United States.”
As of early January 2024, at least 617,607 aliens on the non-detained docket of the Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) had either already been convicted of specific crimes, or were facing pending criminal charges.
The Myth of the Law-Abiding Illegal Alien
Democrat claims that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than do native-born Americans are invariably based on the findings of studies that either: (a) intentionally manipulate data to support a deceptive narrative, or (b) fail to take into account key information that would yield a very different conclusion.
For example, many studies of the relationship between immigrants and crime fail to distinguish between illegal aliens and their legal immigrant counterparts. Instead, they conflate the two and categorize them generically as “immigrants.” And crime calculations omit millions of offenses illegal aliens commit each year to procure fraudulent identity documents, or they omit broad categories of other offenses, like drug crimes.
Yet another major flaw in studies is their failure to take into account the fact that many criminal offenders who are illegal aliens are unrecognized as such at the time of their arrest, often categorized as people of “other” or “unknown” immigration status.
A Massive Threat to Innocent Lives and National Security
Every statistic about illegal immigrant crime represents a real victim whose life may be permanently ruined, if not ended altogether, by people possessing no legal right to even set foot on American soil.
Consider, for instance, the tragic fate of autistic twenty-year-old Kayla Hamilton, who in July 2022 was attacked by an illegal alien from El Salvador who entered her bedroom, raped her, robbed her of six dollars, and then strangled her to death with an electrical cord. The perpetrator, an MS-13 gang member, had crossed the nation’s unprotected southern border two months earlier by posing as an Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC).
Consider also what occurred on January 30, 2024: Alonzo Pierre Mingo, a 37-year-old alien who previously had been in ICE custody, impersonated a package-delivery man to trick his way into a Minneapolis home where he demanded money and then fatally shot three adults in the head while two small children were present.
Such anecdotes represent the smallest tip of a gargantuan iceberg of illegal-alien crime. Moreover, the dangers posed by illegals extend also into the realm of potentially catastrophic terrorist threats. Indeed, according to CBP data, Border Patrol agents in 2022-2023 apprehended no fewer than 270 illegal aliens whose names were already on America’s terrorist watchlist. By contrast, a mere 30 such encounters had occurred during the four fiscal years from 2017 through 2021, combined.
Another major concern is the fact that among those entering the United States illegally are massive numbers of people hailing from enemy nations openly hostile to America:
- CBP reports that 37,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended on the U.S.-Mexico border in 2023 – 50 times more than the corresponding figure from 2021.
- From January through November of 2023, more than 262,000 Venezuelans likewise entered the U.S. illegally.
- On October 10, 2023, Fox News reported: “[B]etween October 2021 and October 2023, [Border Patrol] agents encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan … as well as 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran, and 538 from Syria. Agents also encountered 13,624 from Uzbekistan, 30,830 from Turkey, 1,613 from Pakistan, 164 from Lebanon, 185 from Jordan, 139 from Yemen, 123 from Iraq, and 15,594 from Mauritania.”
Yet another major threat stemming from the Biden administration’s obliteration of our southern border is the scourge of illicit drugs. In 2021, for instance, more than 106,000 Americans nationwide died of drug overdoses, including at least 70,601 from synthetic opioids other than methadone – mainly fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. Indeed, fentanyl has now become the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45, and the vast majority of it is smuggled over our border with Mexico.
It should be noted, however, that the fentanyl crisis in America is even more closely related to Communist China than to Mexico. As bestselling author Peter Schweizer points out: “A lot of the people involved in the fentanyl trade actually have senior positions in the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] or they’re advisers to the CCP government, [and] the links in this chain of fentanyl that is poisoning 100,000 Americans, every link in that chain is a Chinese operation.”
The reckless, open-borders policies of the Biden administration have left America more vulnerable than ever before to agents of violence, destruction, and sabotage. As a Homeland Security official recently told the Daily Caller News Foundation: “The border is open. Wide open. Don’t believe the media. Don’t believe the [Biden] White House. Arm yourself, protect your homes and your families, because this joke of an administration isn’t doing anything.”
Some are here to work, but some of them are hard-core violent criminals.
One solution might be for individual states to deport illegal aliens directly, without the federal government getting involved.
Excellent idea. Texas I think already does it
No. We do not. States are not permitted to deport illegals directly. I don’t know the history on this – I’m sure it’s complicated – but this idea has come up many times on the ground among law enforcement and persons in the legal system – and it’s always been interrupted by the Feds under the ‘supremacy’ clause of the Constitution.
Obviously … the ‘supremacy’ clause was never intended to allow the Federal government to flood the nation with foot soldiers in a ‘war’ against their state and local political enemies.
If I’m not mistaken, the Constitution states the Federal government can only determine ‘what’ constitutes a citizen, not who or how that is enforced. Is that not correct?
Better to confiscate their assets and put them on work farms to pay off the felonies of comming across illegally. Make them never want to come here again.
Some are, but they knowingly broke the law just to get in. Most break the law to get fake SSN to work. It is not justice to have native born citizens have to obey laws, and have money taken by the Feds at the point of a gun to give to those who don’t abide by the law, commit fraud, and get that confiscated money given to them, to compete against those who had the money taken from them.
I get your point, but this whole situation is jacked-up beyond all belief.
Well, illegal aliens break our immigration law crossing like they do (illegally). Then they break the law a second time by staying here. Then they break the law by committing crimes like, e.g., killing, robbing, etc. Of course, those are the responsibility of our dufus president for inviting them in and then giving them plastic cards with thousands of dollars of credit, free flights around the nation, welfare intended only for American citizens, etc. In a word, they are criminals from the moment they set foot on American soil. Hopefully, once we get a decent Prez, and a decent AG, the seditious criminals currently running DC and our open borders will be brought to justice.
There are some that want to become Americans, but there are the others that behave like criminal democrats.
And the woke left has made it abundantly clear that it’s the criminal flaming democrats they want in.
This example proves it . . .
The Romeike family from Germany came legally and had a clearly legitimate asylum claim.
Jug-eared Barry wanted them gone, because they were wholesome, hard-working Christians.
Sleepy Joe signed off on their deportation a few months ago.
Whether they want to “become Americans” is irrelevant. What do they have to contribute to America?, is the question. Under our currently ignored immigration system the individual must demonstrate some worth to become an American.
I want to become a millionaire, but that will never happen. Three of my great-grands and a grandfather came the America and became citizens; I believe in LEGAL immigration. You nor I can go to any other country, cross their border illegally, be granted instantaneous and unchallenged asylum, and then be released with only a promise to show up at an immigration hearing some two years hence. What do the vast majority of illegal aliens have to offer to the United States? Nothing: most of them provide no services to the betterment of the U.S. nor their local communities; the majority are uneducated; most of them don’t speak English; they bring diseases; and they are ALL criminals, based on their willingness to break our immigration laws in the first place. They are a drain on the economy; their presence here has cost billions of dollars worth of federal, state, and local tax dollars. Large swaths of public education funds must be redirected in order to educate the ESL and non-English speaking children of illegal parents, who pay nothing into that tax revenue stream. They receive SSN, drivers licenses, welfare and food stamps. Healthcare facilities — particularly those in border states — are inundated by illegals, nearly all of whom don’t pay a single cent toward their healthcare. I know firsthand; I worked in a surgical-trauma intensive care unit in a level 1 trauma center in San Antonio, TX. You simply cannot comprehend the kind of onslaught of illegal-alien, crime-related traumatic injuries passed through my unit. As many as four times a month, my unit alone had an ICE or Border Patrol officer, SAPD officer, or Bexar County SD deputy sitting in a patient room, guarding an illegal who was handcuffed to the bed. There are five ICUs in that hospital. The med/surg floors had more. The invasion, on our southern border in particular, must end!
As a smart azz kind of guy, “crime is hard work”.
“They are not sending us their best.” – Pres. Donald J. Trump
And 100% of them committed a crime the instant they crossed the border. 0% of them has any right to be here, and 100% of them should be deported.
“Some are here to work?” Alright then, by your twisted logic, I am going to come take your possessions just because “I don’t have them and I want them.” And just to make certain I get them, I will be armed with any firearm I care to steal.
You need to tweak your algorithm because your output is fatally flawed.
Every one of these parasites is in violation of federal law the minute they step into North America.
The problem of illegal alien crime is beyond a matter of comparing crime rates with others. The difference is not just quantitative, but qualitative and thematic. The alien invasion is rooted in international crime. Released criminals are being sent. Those trafficked are indentured to organized crime. The source of many are enemy countries that are part of the transportation network.
Thank you. Here in northern California, sections of national forest land have been repurposed for illegal pot farming. Tracts have been cleared, water stolen from local ranches, and, not surprisingly, the labor tends to be illegal endentures paying their fare. There aren’t enough forest rangers or sheriffs to contain the problem. And of course the FBI and DHS and whatever is too busy arresting J6ers to address the problem. Clown world…
And the illegals trash the forest area, install deadly booby-traps, and start forest fires when encroached upon.
They should be shot on sight (the same way they shoot at firefighters coming to put out the fires they start.)
Biden deliberately and by choice is helping Maduro clean out his prisons. He (brandon) could not care less about American citizens. Not one iota of empathy.
The DNC,UN,CFR, Soros Open Society Etc. all part of this Invasion of America North(Canada)South(Mexico)Its a Invasion
Yep, everything is going exactly as planned.
Only 100% of them commit criminal acts by entering the country, then they commit the above listed criminal acts. Since most Americans do not commit any crimes the contention that somehow they alien invaders commit less crime is totally bogus.
Legal concealed carry holders are 1/6th as likely to commit crimes as cops, but the government wants to disarm the non-criminal citizens
get rid of the mfkng s**t-holers
…so bad many are praying for Trumps’ return to office as he touts biggest deportation in USA history…is Trump playing a role to appease the masses, will he get his chance? This call to arms has been going on for decades by many and still even with Mr. Perazzo’s detailed analysis most of us do not really comprehend this foolish hope for correction upon a single individuals return to office. This article proves to me oaths and laws are meaningless in this current turmoil.
Fear is overwhelming now except those fearful pretend or hide in ideas of a civilization…here’s to Defiance, in the face of evil.
It begins to look hopeful.
But at the same time leftie billionaires are right now organizing and setting up groups of leftie lawyers to challenge every move Trump makes as Prez.
You don’t need an entire column to explain the utter degeneracy of people who would insist wholly avoidable crimes are somehow acceptable because illegal murderers, rapists and child molesters commit murder, rape and child molestation at “lesser rates” than native Americans.
The left is well aware of these figures, and values them like gold.If they ever gain complete political control of this country, they will cite them as part of the reason that they must institute a “temporary” police state.Paranoia? Well, three years ago, did you think that an American Presidential election could be rigged?
This is the intentional Balkanization of America! Engineered by global elites who have a nose ring in the democratic party along with their gelding rinos.
Willfully allowing the poisoning and murder of thousands, soon to be millons, of innocent Americans along the way with their lab designed drugs and diseases coordinated with their intentionally open border.
All are TRAITORS and KILLERS!
They don’t want a United States of any kind anymore! They want us under constant conflict and threat.
When that subversive, un- American impostor “president “ Joe Biden got into the White House Oval Office and ruined everything and likewise wrecked all the good that President Trump had accomplished.
Secure strong borders was a great achievement of President Trump. The tragic reality is that also very dangerous
Porous borders opens the door in an “invitation for malicious violent criminal gangs enter America through the US/ Mexican “border.” As the murderers rapists and drug dealing heinous gangster who a call themselves MS- 13. Likewise, now heinous rise in the drug cartel trade because of non-secure borders.
Yes, yes. Also, we should not underestimate the influence of the American media as well as the Soros orgs. They need to be dealt with correctly.
That villainous President pretender ,Joe Biden, got into the White House Oval Office and ruined everything and likewise wrecked all the good that was accomplished.
Secure strong borders was a great achievement of President Trump. The tragic reality is that dangerous
Furthermore President Trump understands the need for a good strong US/Mexican border control, likewise he cares.
For illegal immigration from Mexico is dangerous because of crime by gangs of hooligans who enter the US through pours borders with Mexico. As for example, the gang of thugs called MS-13 who originated in El Salvador the come into America through Mexico. Those gangsters commit crimes as murders, rapes, drug dealing. They are also known, for a price, to smuggle jihadists of Al Qaeda in America.
Therefore, there is a great need for a good for a good border control system with a strong tall wall that’s patrolled by armed American military soldiers who may be allowed to use their guns if they deem it necessary. Along with a good filtering system to let in to the United States only good decent hard working people with visas and not gangsters and jihadists.
In conclusion all the above may be summed up by the wisdom found in the words of Ronald Reagan when he as, so well, stated “A nation without borders is not a nation.”
In contrast, feeble-minded Joe Biden doesn’t understand this need. Or Biden does understand and just doesn’t care or he understands and is intentionally attempting to harm America. In any case Biden is dangerous.
Blacks at 13% of the population account for 52% of all murders and 90% of all violent interracial crimes. Scott Adams was right!
The very FIRST thing they do getting here is criminal. Crossing the border without authorization! In WHAT frickin’ universe do we welcome 20,000 Chinese males of military age into our, I was going to say Nation, but I’m not so sure it is a nation anymore. If I had to say it, I would say we now have three divisions of CCP Red Army troops getting free food and lodging, awaiting orders from Xi Jinping. Don’t ask what’s for, it’s none of your business.
It is an ugly and inconvenient truth… most don’t speak it for fear of being labelled “racist”, “xenophobic”, etc. America’s crime rate is skyrocketing and other countries’ crime rates are tanking because they are emptying their prisons and shipping them off to the US.
Planned by Barack Obama.
A new president like Trump can deport large numbers of illegal aliens but many will never be caught. So the Dems’ gambit will be largely successful it appears.
If they won’t be caught in this techno surveillance state it’s only because the rich want them here.
It doesn’t matter one bit the fact that some “just want to work” or the percentage of crimes they commit. They are ILLEGAL ALIENS, PERIOD.
Get them out of what remains of this lawless landmass immediately.
Trump won, and this proves it!
In my city, anyone hispanic is labeled W for white, plus I am sure no citizenship status is asked. So they just do not know.