In RealClearPolitics, John Lott writes
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) checks the background of illegal aliens they have in custody. But, the administration’s letter to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) shows that as of July 21, 2024, ICE let 435,719 convicted criminals and 226,847 people with pending criminal charges in their home countries into the U.S.
Of those cleared by ICE, 13,099 have convictions for homicide, and another 1,845 were facing criminal charges. Some 9,461 have convictions for sex offenses (not including assault or commercialized sex), and 2,659 face pending charges. The convictions include other crimes such as assault (62,231), robbery (10,031), sexual assault (15,811), weapons offenses (13,423), and dangerous drugs (56,533).
About 7.4 million noncitizens are in the “national docket data,” so 662,776 is 9% of the total, and if one extrapolates the numbers to the homicide rate in this country, it strongly indicates that the government is letting migrants into this country who commit murder at a rate 50% higher than the rest of the U.S. population.
And these numbers clearly underestimate the crime rate of these noncitizens.
The New Data on Migrant Crime, October 1, 2024
It’s commonly said by psychologists that drug addicts and domestic abusers tend to rationalize, justify, minimize and deny the truth about their problems—which are other peoples’ problems too.
This is also true of the Democrat/Media Complex’s attitude towards immigrant crime. (Republicans have their own, donor-driven blind spots about immigration and labor, but they’re rarely supportive of immigrant crime.)
They “rationalize” immigrant crime by saying that immigrant commit no more crime (or even less crime) than Americans, they “justify” immigrant crime (especially the border jumping) by saying immigrants are poor, and they “deny” immigrant crime by never reporting that instance of immigrant crime was committed by an immigrant—it’s always a “Queens man”, a “Chicago man” or an “Upstate New York” man who commits the rape, for example, never a “Oaxaca man”, “Chiapas man”, or of course, a “Mexican immigrant”.
As for the minimization, that can sometimes get comical.
In the October 13 video below, ABC’s Martha Raddatz talks about the Tren de Aragua gang occupation of American-owned apartment blocks in Aurora, Colorado and other places (referenced by the AP, above “Trump seizes on one block of a Colorado city”) saying to J. D. Vance
“Senator Vance, I’m going to stop you… The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.”
Vance replies: “Do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes were taken over by a Venezuelan gangs and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’ open border?”
