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Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily |
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53103
INVASION USA
Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily
Death toll in 2006 far overshadows total
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan
Posted: November 28, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – While the military "quagmire" in Iraq was said to tip the
scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no
idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were
murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of
U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns
began.
Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes
committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups have produced estimates
based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent
research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to
statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are
correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal
aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during
the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to
the Department of Defense.
But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers represents only a
fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as a result
of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he
says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual
death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
While no one – in or out of government – tracks all U.S. accidents
caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence
suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.
A report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Study found 20 percent of
fatal accidents involve at least one driver who lacks a valid license.
In California, another study showed that those who have never held a
valid license are about five times more likely to be involved in a fatal
road accident than licensed drivers.
Statistically, that makes them an even greater danger on the road than
drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked – and nearly as
dangerous as drunk drivers.
King also reports eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by
illegal aliens every day – a total of 2,920 annually.
Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the
Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000
illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an
average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999
through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual
homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.
As the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. increases, so does the
number of American victims.
According to Edwin Rubenstien, president of ESR Research Economic
Consultants, in Indianapolis in 1980, federal and state correctional
facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end of
2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in all U.S.
jails and prisons.
While the federal government doesn't track illegal alien murders,
illegal alien rapes or illegal alien drunk driving deaths, it has
studied illegal aliens incarcerated in U.S. prisons.
In April 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report on
a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and
local facilities during 2003. It found the following:
* The 55,322 illegal aliens studied represented a total of 459,614
arrests – some eight arrests per illegal alien;
* Their arrests represented a total of about 700,000 criminal
offenses – some 13 offenses per illegal alien;
* 36 percent had been arrested at least five times before.
"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, (something you or I would probably do if we were in their
place), it is also a fact that a disproportionately high percentage of
illegal aliens are criminals and sexual predators," states Peter Wagner,
author of a new report called "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration."
"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?"
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03 Dec 2006 09:10:11 PM |
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Radio Free America wrote:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=3D53103
INVASION USA
Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily
Death toll in 2006 far overshadows total
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan
Posted: November 28, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
=A9 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200612010005
Fri, Dec 1, 2006 4:09pm MST
Boyles again cited dubious statistic, reading article stating that
"[t]welve Americans are murdered every day" by illegal immigrants
Summary: 630 KHOW-AM host Peter Boyles, citing an article published by
right-wing news outlet WorldNetDaily, repeated the dubious statistic
that illegal immigrants murder 12 Americans every day. However, the
article Boyles quoted pointed out that "no federal statistics are kept
on murders or any other crimes" committed by illegal immigrants.
On the November 29 broadcast of his 630 KHOW-AM show, host Peter
Boyles, reading from a November 28 article posted on the right-wing
Internet news outlet WorldNetDaily, repeated the dubious statistic that
illegal immigrants murder 12 Americans per day, or 4,380 annually -- a
figure that exceeds "the combined death toll of U.S. troops ... in Iraq
and Afghanistan." The same article, however, contradicted Boyles'
previous assertion that a figure quoted by U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
-- claiming illegal immigrants kill 25 Americans each day -- came from
the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Colorado Media Matters has noted (here, here, here, and here) that
Boyles and a number of his guests have repeated the dubious statistic,
attributed to King, that illegal immigrants "kill 25 Americans each
day." In May, King claimed in at least two speeches and a press release
that illegal immigrants murder 12 Americans each day and kill 13 each
day as a result of drunken driving accidents, for a total of 25 deaths
per day attributable to illegal immigrants. These are the same numbers
reported in the WorldNetDaily article Boyles cited: "There's a report
on WorldNetDaily that illegal aliens murder 12, or kill -- kill and/or
murder 12 Americans daily. It overshadows the death toll in, of
American GIs killed in Iraq and Afghanistan."
From the portion of the November 28 WorldNetDaily article Boyles read
on the air:
BOYLES: Dateline: Washington. While the military quagmire in Iraq is
said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most
Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens -- men, women, and
children -- murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined
death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes
committed by illegals, a number of groups have produced estimates based
on data collected from prisons, news reports, and independent research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegals, according to
statistics released by Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa.
If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered
annually by illegals. That's 21,900 since September 11th.
On September 27, Boyles falsely claimed that King's 25-deaths-a-day
figure was "a GOA [sic] number," referring to the U.S. Government
Accountability Office (GAO). But on the October 26 broadcast of Boyles'
show, Americans for Legal Immigration president William Gheen modified
King's 25-deaths-a-day statistic -- which he apparently had repeated in
the past -- saying that "between 12 and 25" Americans are killed each
day by illegal immigrants. Gheen acknowledged, however, that "no one
really knows how many Americans per day are being killed by aliens and
illegal aliens." And he further stated that the figures King used
didn't refer exclusively to illegal immigrants: "I came on your show,
and I said that according to Congressman Steve King's office in Iowa,
that at least 25 Americans per day were being killed by illegal aliens.
Come to find out that the study and whatnot it was killed by aliens or
immigrants, non-U.S. citizens, at least 25. It wasn't specifically
illegal aliens."
Despite Gheen's comments, Boyles repeated the dubious statistic as
reported by WorldNetDaily on his November 29 show.
WorldNetDaily cited King as the sole source of the reported estimate,
and further compared the estimates to casualties in the war on terror,
noting that "[w]hile King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by
illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers --
for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11,
2001." But, in contrast to Boyles' previous false claim that King's
statistics come from a GAO study, WorldNetDaily stated that "no federal
statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal
aliens," and that "no one -- in or out of government -- tracks all U.S.
accidents caused by illegal aliens." According to the article:
Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes
committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups have produced estimates
based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent
research. [Hyperlink in original.]
[=2E..]
While no one -- in or out of government -- tracks all U.S. accidents
caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence
suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal
aliens.
Indeed, there is no GAO study reporting that 25 Americans per day are
killed by illegal immigrants. Rather, King claimed to have
"extrapolate[d]" his dubious figure from a GAO study he requested,
which according to King showed that 28 percent of inmates in federal,
state, and local prisons and jails are "criminal aliens." Colorado
Media Matters has reviewed GAO reports addressed to King, as well as
figures released by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS) and has found no support for his assertion that 28
percent of inmates in all prisons and jails are criminal aliens.
One GAO study addressed to King and dated April 7, 2005, did report
that about 27 percent of all inmates in federal prisons in 2004 were
criminal aliens. The study noted that the 27 percent figure applied to
all noncitizens in federal prison -- not just to those in the country
illegally. The study did not report on the percentage of state and
local inmates that are criminal aliens because, according to the GAO,
"there was no reliable population and incarceration cost data on
criminal aliens incarcerated in all state prisons and local jails."
However, data from the BJS suggest that the percentage of prisoners who
are criminal aliens, at least at the federal and state levels, is far
lower than King claimed. According to the BJS, 6.4 percent of all state
and federal inmates at midyear 2005 were "noncitizens" -- not just
illegal immigrants -- down from 6.5 percent in 2004.
Colorado Media Matters has previously explained how King might have
arrived at his illegitimate figure.
From the November 29 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM's The Peter Boyles Show:
BOYLES: There's a report on WorldNetDaily that illegal aliens murder
12, or kill -- kill and/or murder 12 Americans daily. It overshadows
the death toll in, of American GIs killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
[=2E..]
BOYLES: Email. And this comes -- he says, "Take a look at the
WorldNetDaily -- www.worldnetdaily.com -- "
Dateline: Washington. While the military quagmire in Iraq is said to
tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans
have no idea more of their fellow citizens -- men, women, and children
-- murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of
U=2ES. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes
committed by illegals, a number of groups have produced estimates based
on data collected from prisons, news reports, and independent research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegals, according to
statistics released by Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa.
If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered
annually by illegals. That's 21,900 since September 11th.
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