In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
鈥?A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.
鈥?The leadership of the Columbia Lil鈥?Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.鈥檚 MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.
Good luck finding any reference to such facts in official crime analysis. The LAPD and the L.A. city attorney recently requested an injunction against drug trafficking in Hollywood, targeting the 18th Street Gang and the 鈥渘on鈥揼ang members鈥?who sell drugs in Hollywood for the gang. Those non鈥揼ang members are virtually all illegal Mexicans, smuggled into the country by a ring organized by 18th Street bigs. The Mexicans pay off their transportation debts to the gang by selling drugs; many soon realize how lucrative that line of work is and stay in the business.
Cops and prosecutors universally know the immigration status of these non-gang 鈥淗ollywood dealers,鈥?as the city attorney calls them, but the gang injunction is assiduously silent on the matter. And if a Hollywood officer were to arrest an illegal dealer (known on the street as a 鈥渂order brother鈥? for his immigration status, or even notify the Immigration and Naturalization Service (since early 2003, absorbed into the new Department of Homeland Security), he would face severe discipline for violating Special Order 40, the city鈥檚 sanctuary policy.
The ordinarily tough-as-nails former LAPD chief Daryl Gates enacted Special Order 40 in 1979鈥攕howing that even the most unapologetic law-and-order cop is no match for immigration advocates. The order prohibits officers from 鈥渋nitiating police action where the objective is to discover the alien status of a person鈥濃€攊n other words, the police may not even ask someone they have arrested about his immigration status until after they have filed criminal charges, nor may they arrest someone for immigration violations. They may not notify immigration authorities about an illegal alien picked up for minor violations. Only if they have already booked an illegal alien for a felony or for multiple misdemeanors may they inquire into his status or report him. The bottom line: a cordon sanitaire between local law enforcement and immigration authorities that creates a safe haven for illegal criminals.
L.A.鈥檚 sanctuary law and all others like it contradict a key 1990s policing discovery: the Great Chain of Being in criminal behavior. Pick up a law-violator for a 鈥渕inor鈥?crime, and you might well prevent a major crime: enforcing graffiti and turnstile-jumping laws nabs you murderers and robbers. Enforcing known immigration violations, such as reentry following deportation, against known felons, would be even more productive. LAPD officers recognize illegal deported gang members all the time鈥攆lashing gang signs at court hearings for rival gangbangers, hanging out on the corner, or casing a target. These illegal returnees are, simply by being in the country after deportation, committing a felony (in contrast to garden-variety illegals on their first trip to the U.S., say, who are only committing a misdemeanor). 鈥淏ut if I see a deportee from the Mara Salvatrucha [Salvadoran prison] gang crossing the street, I know I can鈥檛 touch him,鈥?laments a Los Angeles gang officer. Only if the deported felon has given the officer some other reason to stop him, such as an observed narcotics sale, can the cop accost him鈥攂ut not for the immigration felony.
Though such a policy puts the community at risk, the department鈥檚 top brass brush off such concerns. No big deal if you see deported gangbangers back on the streets, they say. Just put them under surveillance for 鈥渞eal鈥?crimes and arrest them for those. But surveillance is very manpower-intensive. Where there is an immediate ground for getting a violent felon off the street and for questioning him further, it is absurd to demand that the woefully understaffed LAPD ignore it
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_th... Hold the politicians accountable for not protecting the citizens and throw them in prison with their drug dealing buddies! Make it mandatory for the police to check immigration status and contact ICE. Put real politicians in charge of LA (you would have to stop the illegals from voting which put the corrupt politicians in power to begin with). Just a start!
You could kill, rape, rob, etc. some high place business men and women and put the blame on illegal aliens! When it effects them they will put a stop to it! The US government is run by big business after all! Arm yourselves for the earthquake and stockpile food and water NOW. The mexicans are here to correct the homosexualists and atheists in their wickedness. How about get off your computer and join the Border Patrol or LAPD. Nah! that's too hard for you right? its not just the illegals who do the crime there are so many messed up people in LA I would recommend working for the LAPD or LASD |
