Did you know more Americans are killed by illegal aliens than in the Iraq war ?

More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says
By Jim Brown
AgapePress
February 22, 2007

(AgapePress) -- Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S. The group says that number is more than 15 percent of all the murders reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. and about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population.

Mike Cutler, a former senior special agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (the former INS), is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and an advisor to Family Security Matters (FSM). He says the high number of Americans being killed by illegal aliens is just part of the collateral damage that comes with tolerating illegal immigration.

"The military actually called for the BORTAC team, ... the elite unit of the Border Patrol, to be detailed to Iraq to help to secure the Iraqi border," Cutler notes. "Now, if our military can understand that Iraq's security depends in measure on the ability to protect its border against insurgents and terrorists, then why isn't our country similarly protecting our own borders?" he asks.

"We are not five and a half years, nearly, after 9/11, and yet our borders remain open," the Center for Immigration Studies fellow observes. "We have National Guardsmen assigned on the border, but it turns out they are unarmed," he points out. "Their rules of engagement are very simple: if armed intruders head your way, run in the other direction."

This situation would "almost be comical if it wasn't so tragic," Cutler asserts. "If our borders are wide open, this means that drugs, criminals, and terrorists are entering our country just as easily as the dishwashers," he says.

The report from FSM estimates that the 267,000 illegal aliens currently incarcerated in the nation are responsible for nearly 1,300,000 crimes, ranging from drug arrests to rape and murder. Such statistics, Cutler contends, debunk the claim that illegal immigration is a victimless crime. "Then we even have another problem," he adds, "and that's the Visa Waiver Program."

The federal government's Visa Waiver Program enables nationals of certain countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less without obtaining a visa. According to the U.S. State Department website, the waiver program was established in 1986 with the objective of "eliminating unnecessary barriers to travel," stimulating America's tourism industry, and allowing the government to focus consular resources in other areas.

Cutler says the U.S. retains the Visa Waiver Program because the nation's travel, tourism, and hospitality industries want America's borders wide open. In other words, the former INS official contends, the nation's security is being compromised in the name of trade.

Fiddley - Isn't one murder one too many ? Realize illegals do not commit all the crimes and murders, however if 1/3 of your prison population is made of illegals, doesn't that speak volumes

Yes I do. It's pretty sad when more of our people are killed by criminals who don't belong here than in a war. I say bring our troops home to fight the real war on American freedom.

Oh no! the poor american people! whatever will we do?!?! what about the thousands of innocent civilians that have been killed in iraq? of course they don't matter because in the eyes of these ignorant, one tooth, inbred mongoloids, Iraqi's are just a bunch of evil "ragheads"....

Funny how Mexicans turned this statistic about illegals into a race thing and then post links to crimes Americans committed which has as nothing to do with the question. Typical of them to blow smoke and try to change the subject to make illegals look better.

Anyone with a 3rd grade education could have figured that out. 15-20 million illegals are what makes those numbers easy to believe. It's all fun and games until one of your family members is killed by an illegal.

Yes I do know that. that is why I am constantly communicating with my representatives in congress and monetarily supporting anti-illegal groups.

Yes... of course... the illegals are causing much more harm than good to our country. Despite the one sided "studies" that show how beneficial they are...

They seem to work very fast and do a piss poor job.

Yes, I knew that. You'd think there would be more outrage. I'm thoroughly outraged by it.

Interesting to know this.

Those damned Canadians.

Yes as a matter of fact I knew that already.

and we are more worried about Bin Laden

Yes, one MAJOR reason to deport them asap!!

Yes I knew that

That just proves that we have a highly trained and efficient Military. I'm proud to be a VET.

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM DID NOT SURFACE UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT WOKE UP ONE MORNING AND SAID "DAMN! WE GOT US AN IMMIGRATION PROBLEM!" WAKE UP AMERICA! THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS, WHY? BECAUSE THE U.S. HAS ALLOWED IT. I JUST LOVE THESE IGNORANT STATISTICS !

Hmmm. Interesting statistic and more interesting source. I do think that the immigration debate deserves more attention. Could we just send all unproductive members of American society into the Iraqi War chained together with no guns and put them on the front line? Maybe an island that we own somewhere and just let them have a community with no escape and sharks all around? Housing and feeding these people is costing us excessive money and if we just put them on an island, eventually they'd either kill each other off.

And you would suggest what for the illegal immigration problem?

The reality is that not everyone crossing the border is setting out to smuggle drugs and kill Americans. These are mostly people trying to make it in this world the best way that they can and provide for their families. We complain about the high cost of gas and groceries now, deport every illegal immigrant from the U.S. and that will really be something to complain about when you are paying $5 for orange juice.

It is a complex issue with no simple solution. You make a statement like "More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war" to get a knee jerk reaction, and then completely ignore the real issue.

First of all, your study appears to have been debunked, so you can stop going around and stating this obvious untruth. Check the U.S. Department of Justice Website for actual statistics on illegals in this country, and the number that are incarcerated for not just violent crimes, but crimes in general. You'll find that illegals are slightly at lower risk to commit a crime than many demographics of their American counterparts.

Also, cars kill many, many Americans every year. I think we should ban those too. They make the Iraq war death toll seem miniscule. When will we start to protect our people and stop the madness of death that is caused by the automobile. When indeed.

Riiight, notice how this atricle deliberately leaves out how many Americans are murdered by US Citizens in America each year. I guess the tens of thousands of African American and trailer park trash rednecks that take each other out over drugs and women each year is ok? Relative to how many illegal aliens are actually in the country, I would say those numbers are actually looking pretty decent as far as a low crime rate (per capita) is concerned.

You can't have your cake and eat it too, if you want that lawn company of Mexicans to do your gardening for $2/hour then don't complain when they knock up your daughter...you have nobody to blame for this but yourselves :)

Yes i did and 8-12 woman and children are raped or molested daily by illegals.
Send them packing!!!!!
Report and Deport!!!!!

That was proved to be untrue statistics.


http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/2...


Gheen acknowledged that "the truth of the matter is that no one really knows how many Americans per day are being killed by aliens and illegal aliens. Everything is an estimate."

HA HA! too funny that it was an untrue statistic!!!!!!!And how long has the war been going on compared to how long illegals have been coming here???????

Did you know that the FBI statistics show that whites commit the highest number of homicides, followed by blacks and then other?
http://www.fbi.gov/homepage.htm

Hate Crime Statistics.
An analysis of available race data for the 7,330 known hate crime offenders revealed that:

58.6 percent were white.
20.6 percent were black.
5.7 percent were groups made up of individuals of various races (multiple races, group).
1.1 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander.
1.0 percent of known offenders were American Indian/Alaskan Native.
12.9 percent were unknown.