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Complete article at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy200401220906.asp
Heather Mac Donald is stirring up trouble again. A petite, unassuming
woman, Mac Donald is not one who on first acquaintance gives the
impression of a rabble-rouser. Her latest article for the Manhattan
Institute's quarterly, City Journal, is called "The Illegal Alien
Crime Wave," and it presents some inconvenient facts for those
inclined toward a less restrictive immigration policy. She points out
that among the tempest-tost arriving at our golden door are not just
the poor, the tired, and the huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
but the killers, rapists, and assorted thugs who take gleeful
advantage of our already schizophrenic attitudes on border
enforcement. Consider some of the statistics Mac Donald cites:
In Los Angeles, 95 percent of the outstanding murder warrants are for
illegal aliens, as are perhaps two-thirds of the 17,000 outstanding
felony warrants.
Southern California's largest Hispanic street gang, 18th Street, has
some 20,000 members, roughly 60 percent of whom are illegal aliens.
(The LAPD and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, by
comparison, have a combined strength of about 17,000 officers.)
In 2000, nearly 30 percent of federal prisoners were foreign-born.
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