With the recent arrest of a Salvadoran national for the murder of missing intern Chandra Levy, the issue of crime attributed to illegal aliens is and should be on the minds of millions of Americans.
Ingmar Guandiqua who was is in this country illegally, is currently in prison for the assault of two other women in Washington D.C. He was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement was aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.
While Chandra Levy may be the most well known American who has been killed by an illegal alien, she is only one in a staggeringly large and ever-growing group.
The federal government does not keep comprehensive statistics on the number of crimes committed in this country by illegal aliens. Taking a look at the results of a few independent studies, it is not surprising that they don’t.
In 2006, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) released the results of a study which found that 4,380 Americans are murdered every year by illegal aliens. The study also concluded that 4,745 Americans are killed every year by illegal aliens driving drunk.
In 2005, the Government Accountability Office announced the results of a study which examined the criminal history of 55,322 illegal aliens who were incarcerated in federal, state, and local institutions during the year 2003. The results of that study follow:
The 55,322 illegal aliens in the study accounted for a total of 459,614 arrests (or eight arrests per illegal alien). Their arrests represented a total of nearly 700,000 criminal offenses (or 13 offenses per illegal alien). 36 percent of those studied had been arrested at least five times previously.
Peter Wagner, the author of “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration,” summed up the situation when he told WorldNetDaily: "While the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who work hard and are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families, it is also a fact that a disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals and sexual predators.That is part of the dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the 'good' in we get the 'bad' along with them. The question is, how much 'bad' is acceptable and at what price?"
Speaking of the price we are paying, the Ohio Jobs and Justice Political Action Committee has set up an on-line memorial for victims who were killed by illegal aliens. They continuously update the site and have an extensive list of victims’ names, along with some information on the victim, as well as a brief history on the criminal case. What follows is a small sampling of some of the more recent cases:
Victim: Breanna Slaughter-Eck
Age: 12
In late 2008, Breanna was riding her bicycle in San Jose, California when she was allegedly hit and killed by unlicensed illegal alien Adriana Fierro DeMarin, who now sits in jail awaiting trial.
Victim: Nayashieka Cooper
Age: 19
Ms. Cooper and her 3 year old son were walking down a street in Athens, GA, when Mexican national Abel Gonzalez-Perez ran her over and immediately fled the scene (police captured him three days later). Her little boy sat by his mother and watched helplessly as she lay dying next to him.
In January 2009, Gonzalez-Perez pled guilty to DUI, vehicular manslaughter, and hit and run.
Victim: Lila Meizel
Age: 83
Ramon Alvarado, Jose Alvarado, and Ana Rodas are all in the country illegally and have been arrested for the 2008 murder of Mrs. Meizel. The three allegedly beat the elderly woman to death, then burned her body in an attempt to cover-up the crime scene.
Even though the Alvarado cousins had several prior arrests, local authorities never notified ICE of their immigration status because Montgomery County, MD has a sanctuary policy in place.
Victim: Dean Knospe
Age: 71
On January 22, 2009, Mexican national Eulalio Haro was convicted in the 2006 hit and run death of Mr. Knospe. Haro who was driving under the influence, hit Knospe who was riding his motorcycle, and drove away, leaving him to die on the road.
Haro had been previously deported after serving a prison sentence for another crash in 1993, but re-entered the country illegally.
Victim: William Sullo III
Age: 30
In November 2008, Ecuadorian national Jose Maldanado Luzuriaga was arrested for the murder of Mr. Sullo. Police allege that he killed Mr. Sullo who worked as a bartender at the Salute Restaurant in Philadelphia, PA, because he refused to serve him anymore alcohol and later had him removed from the bar.
Luzuriaga allegedly waited outside the bar for Sullo to leave, and upon seeing the bartender exit the building, rammed his F-150 pickup truck into him. He has been charged with criminal homicide, attempted homicide (he nearly ran over another bartender in the parking lot), reckless endangerment, and not possessing a driver’s license.
Luzuriaga told police that he had been living in the U.S. for five years.
The on-line memorial goes on and on with names of Americans both young and old who have been sacrificed for political reasons. Not Congress nor our former or current President will actually defend our border, and stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States.
For many years, the Republicans wanted to keep the border open to fill the country with cheap labor, which benefits business owners by undercutting wages for everyone. The Democrats have sought to keep the border unprotected to bring in millions of potential new voters, which is why that party pays so much lip service to the plight of illegal aliens.
Whether they seek workers willing to work for sub-standard wages, or voters who will keep them in power…It is the American people who have been sold-out by both parties.
Every time I learn that a family has been attacked, or a child has been killed by an illegal alien, I think this must be the tipping point. There are certain dates in this ongoing tragedy which stand out more than others.
Such as on June 22, 2008, when three members of the Bologna family were gunned down by Salvadoran national and MS-13 gang member Edwin Ramos. Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16 were shot to death by Ramos with an AK-47 as they sat in their car on a crowded street, in the city’s Excelsior District
Or on September 10, 2008, the day the parents of 3-year-old Marten Kudlis buried their son at Fairmount Cemetery, while waiting for his ice cream in a Denver Baskin and Robbins.
Guatemalan national Francis Hernandez slammed into a pickup truck, which was then pushed into the ice cream shop’s window. The toddler was sitting at a table in front of that window, and was sent flying as the truck came crashing through it.
This nation sits on the brink of an economic meltdown, while our cities are becoming hunting grounds for predatory criminals. We have enough problems in this country without importing them from foreign lands.
Because we live with it everyday, most Americans understand and fear this growing threat. However, our elected representatives continue to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the mounting death toll.
A weary nation must ask the question…How many Americans have to die before the border is secured?
Until that question is answered…Keep your families close, and go with the understanding that you and you alone are responsible for your own safety.
Comments
This article and the entire list of people killed by illegals on the website should be sent to EVERY "representative" in Washington.
We should not let these people's lives (and deaths) go unnoticed. People like Nazi Pelosi and Harry Reid (and a whole lot of others) should be held accountable as they are in positions of power to uphold their oaths of office and support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the laws of this land - including immigration laws!
I spent 20 years in the U. S. Military defending MY country and I hate to see MY country go into the sewer and MY flag desecrated by those who should not be here in the first place. They suck the cities, counties and states budgets dry because of their chain migration and anchor babies.
My motto is "LEGALLY HERE - NOTHING TO FEAR" and this crap that Pelosi spouts about enforcment of our immigration laws is "un-American" only tells me where she stands of representing U.S. Citizens versus illegal immigrants!!!!
add to the list 17 year old jamiel Shaw, LA standout football player with scholarship offer to stanford. Shot by an illegal alien gang member just two doors down from his house in LA one evening. Just for being the wrong color.
In the following week in LA three more black americans were killed by illegal alien gang members.
AND a few months ago, A black man taking out the trash at a bowling alley in Los Angeles, was executed by an illegal alien gang member from Mexico.
ADD to the list the three black college kids executed in NEWARK NJ last August with a fouth being attacked and left for dead by a machete.
The two who did this, MS 13 gang members from Peru and Colombia, ILLEGALLY IN THE US
ADD the two teen girls who were killed in Va. Becah by an illegal alien driving drunk. Remember, OReilly and Geraldo had a very heated debate on this one.
At the same time, in California, the Director/producer of "porky's" and "AChristmas Story" and his son were also killed by an illegal alien driving drunk on the pacific coast highway. Alcohol level was .25
Houston, Texas, three years ago, Police Officer Rodney Johnson shot in the back of the head by an illegal who he had arrested and was in the back seat of the patrol car. Johnson and his wife, also a Houston Police Officer had five kids.
40 million illegals are waiting to be granted amnesty, a path to citizenship, by Obama, the Democrats, and the Foreign National Caucuses operating within our own country, trying to defeat the American public.
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SAYS NO TO ILLEGALS!!
WE WILL NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE DEFEATED!!
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SAYS NO TO ILLEGALS!! WE WILL NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE DEFEATED!!
STAND UP AMERICANS AND YELL "NO" TO ILLEGALS, LOUDER
We can add Tony Zeppetella to this list.
He was a police officer in his late 20's with a wife and newborn baby who was shot by a three strikes gang member scum by the name of Adrian Camacho who had been previously deported several times. Scumbag Camacho was pulled over in a routine traffic stop and wrestled Mr Zepetella's gun from him and used it on him by shooting him in the face. This happened a block from my home and I live in a "nice area".
THIS UNCHECKED IMMIGRATION IS RUINING OUR COUNTRY!!! WAKE UP FROM YOUR BEAUTY REST PEOPLE!!!!!
You can add Jamial Shaw an LA high school football player shot to death by an illegal alien who had just gotten out of jail two days earlier. He was shot because he was Black. His mother who was serving in Irac had to come home to bury her son.
Simultaneous attacks coincidental or by design: economic, moral, terrorist, gun control, food control, illegal immigration - In 2006, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) released the results of a study which found that 4,380 Americans are murdered every year by illegal aliens. The study also concluded that 4,745 Americans are killed every year by illegal aliens driving drunk.
A friend and his wife were rear ended at high speed last year in S.Carolina. His wife was rushed to the hospital where she died three days later leaving three children, a husband, and several other family members. The driver of the truck that hit them was an illegal alien from Honduras....he is awaiting trial.
Everybody who has had family members killed by these illegal alien drunk drivers needs to file law suits against the federal government for not doing it's #1 job, protecting the borders and enforcing immigration laws.
I have fought illegal immigration for years. I know how many have been killed by them, and I kept waiting to see if politicians would do anything.
An actress in NY was killed by one working in her apt., I thought, something will be done now.....NOPE!
Then a diplomat was killed by an illegal driving into her car...I waited for something to be done...NOPE!
The the director of A Christmas Story, and his son, were also killed by an illegal driving drunk...I waited...NOTHING!
So, I guess it will take one of them to run into one of Congress' family to get something done.
This is a disgrace to US citizens. And Obama promised LaRaza he would grant amnesty!
Gerald just said we were HATEFUL for wanting immigration laws enforced...I just wrote him a note!
Join numbersusa.com and alipac.us to get the lastest on illegal's costs and havoc they are creating.
FIGHT OBAMA, PELOSI AND GERALDO....WE NEED OUR LAWS ENFORCED!
The Border Patrol will not allow Border Patrol Agents to arrest illegal aliens who are already living or working in the United States. Supposedly that is the job of ICE. If you talk to ICE, they don't do that either. Stand up and raise hell! Or wait till it is one of your loved ones murdered by another foreigner.
Regarding the devastation that illegal invaders do physically and financially to American citizens, the democrat politicians indeed legally deserve serious prison time as accessories to countless crimes. Every year, the illegals kill and cripple more Americans than those who died 9/11 and the "war on terror" worldwide combined to date. GW Bush proclaims that during his reign he "kept America safe" while trashing the Constitution and making an absolute mockery of "the rule of law." Did he now? For 8 years he did not do one productive thing to stem the flow of illegal invaders who provided his corporate "budt buddies" with cheap labor...not one single thing. And the "out cry" of other republicans, politicans and supporters, can best be described as non-critical, as silence.
Illigals commit more murders every year then the total number of deaths from the entire Iraq war. If you include manslaughter, illegals kill nearly 2 times as many Americans per year then all Iraq war deaths.
Congress and the President have sworn to protect and defend the US Constitution and its citizens. As usual they fail us. Politicians are concerned with one thing, that is their next election. They are not concerned with our laws. They use the Constitution for toilet paper. They don't care who is killed, or how much of the taxpayers money they spend. They only care about being re-elected. These offices were never meant to be a career.
Gee talking about illegal aliens invading and murdering...hmmmm. Might come as a bit of a surprise but, dude the all time world champeeeens in that line is none other than "our troops" slaughtering en masse on every continent on this planet. But being ameriKan limits one's understanding so don't worry if ya'll don't geddit!
"This article and the entire list of people killed by illegals on the website should be sent to EVERY "representative" in Washington."
NO!!!! They don't CARE. Quit trying to reason with these morons. THROW THEM OUT. ALL OF THEM!!!
Good coverage on many concerns; God bless you, BUT how do we get Congress and the President out of office, if they refuse to do the people's will???
PSYCHOS!!!!!
In the summer of 2007, the last time this “Immigration Reform” reared its ugly head, we watched in horror as acts of domestic and international terrorism, spread like wild fire all over the Unitd States left unchecked by our Dysfunctional American Government. Riots organized by La Raza, LULAC, MALDEF, MEChA subversive anti–American racist Hispanic organizations that encouraged illegals to march in our streets under color of foreign flags, to intimidate and coerce the civilian population of the United States and to influence the immigration policy of this nation. These organizations condone and encourage criminal violations of the laws of the United States by their protection of the illegal. As a result, thousands of American citizens of all ages, from infants to senior citizens have been terrorized, raped, robbed and murdered by this invading army of foreign nationals illegally in this country. The words of President James K. Polk are as true today as they were on May 11, 1846 “Mexico
The words of President James K. Polk are as true today as they were on May 11, 1846 “Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil.”
Todays Dysfunctional American Government has done nothing and will do nothing. This motely crew of Congressional American Misfits, have failed you the American citizen and they will continue to fail you. Are you going to continue to allow it? Will you continue to allow foreign nationals to march in your streets with their flags, spit in your face and claim the land your forefathers fought and died for? Are you going to continue to allow your American brothers and sisters to be raped, robbed and murdered? Are you going to continue to allow this Dysfunctional Government to shred the constitution and throw it at your feet?
The line has been drawn in the sand by the illegal and our Dysfunctional American Government. The American people didn’t draw it, but it is time for us
Had to post in 2 parts sorry
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COME HERE TO WORK? yeah taking U.S. out of work and putting U.S. in the ground too! GROUPS LIKE MADD support illegal immigrants the finger to them! we look to goverment for support we get the finger from them? there children are all so save and you me are children become victims of neglect by punks and sissies in our goverment! homosexual gets beat up racist hate crime! child gets rape by pervert it's not even a story? example black rapes 8 month old baby BOY to death louisiana? i'am starting to believe we have more homosexual perverts in our goverment courts law enforcement then we truely know about? violence and lack of law enforcement seems to be the political correct agends from this goverment of OURS? back wards agenda where security is being removed and taken away? violence applyed teach promoted? acorn smuggling children for prostitution purpose profits advice? school unions in support of gay marriage and with our tax dollars to boot? truth is a mother AMEN
Great to see that so many are waking up to this scourge. I left the Southwest many years ago because of hispanics and the crime which accompanies them wherever they go. Please talk to your friends family and neighbors about this. Remember that all politics are local.Use petition,recall,referendum, etc,. Obtain legal firearms, train and stockpile.
While most of our attention is on the illegals from Latin America, don't forget the Asian illegals who quietly fade into the numerous "China Towns" across the country. There are also far too many "asylum" seekers who will use any excuse to get into the country. Then, there are the "refugees," who also use various excuses. I don't know just what this country has done to attract so many "immigrants," but we have to draw the line somewhere. We're running out of good water and cropland. What is left should be kept for Americans, and ONLY Americans!
my friend is a bailbondsmanin the LA area and she said 50% of their business is illeagal ailiens
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