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INVASION USA
Crackdown on illegals produces crime decline
Report confirms aggravated assault down by 36.5%

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Posted: April 04, 2009
12:10 am Eastern

By Alyssa Farah
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Following a crackdown on illegal immigration, officials in Prince William County in northern Virginia are reporting their numbers reveal a significant decrease in violent crimes committed.

The violent crime rate in Prince William County plummeted 22 percent in 2008, according to new reports.

In recent years, the county had experienced a steady influx of illegal immigrants that led to its development of one of the most aggressive immigration policies in the nation.

The county for a time required all police officers to question all detainees about their immigration status. In 2008 the county loosened the policy to require police officers to only question those taken into custody about their immigrations status.

If someone is found to be in the country illegally, they are sent to local Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.

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The policy was changed because county officials feared that lawsuits would result from the former policy.

Last week, Prince William County Police Chief Charlie T. Deane presented the department’s 2008 crime statistics, pointing out that the overall crime fell well below the five-year average.

Robbery decreased by 8 percent and aggravated assault fell by 36.5 percent in 2008.

Deane said the statistics are not entirely accurate because crimes committed on illegal immigrants may not be reported. He stressed that the police department will continue to protect all victims of crimes, regardless of their immigration status.

“It’s in the best interest in this community that crime be reported regardless of who the victim is, and we must get that word out … because you never know who the witness is going to be who will solve that case,” Dean said.

As the nation continues to debate a federal solution to the immigration crisis, more and more counties and individual towns are taking responsibility into their own hands.

Help Save Manassas is a private organization created by citizens who are committed to reducing the number of illegal immigrants in the city as well as the greater Prince William County region. It was modeled after Help Save Herndon, another Northern Virginia-based anti-illegal immigration organization that helped to decrease the number of illegals in Herndon.

Karla H - But apparently white people with brown eyes are OK as far as the Brazilian president is concerned!

How ’bout brown people with blue eyes???

This guy’s district has to be be most gerrymandered in the country.

Chandra Levy would probably be alive today if DC were not a sanctuary city.

And a lot of other U.S. citizens!

All I know is that I feel much safer walking around my neighborhood today than I did prior to passage of the Rule of Law Resolution. Thanks to all those who worked for its passage.

Friday, April 03, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) In emotional testimony before a House joint panel this week, a Virginia man recalled the death of his teenage daughter in 2007 a death caused by an illegal immigrant who was driving drunk and who had been arrested twice before the crime, but was not deported.

Two years ago this week, my 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, and her best friend Allison were killed as they were sitting at in intersection waiting for a red light to change, Ray Tranchant said, as friends placed a photograph of Tessa Tranchant on an easel behind him.

Since his daughters death, Tranchant, a professor from VIrginia Beach, has become an advocate for the enforcement of immigration law.

On Thursday, as Tranchant applauded local law enforcement in Virginia for its increased efforts to work with federal immigration authorities since his daughters death, he referred to individuals listed on the Immigration and Customs Enforcements database of illegal aliens with criminal backgrounds as banditos.

That comment drew a rebuff from Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.).

Mr. Tranchant, can I share with you as the father of two daughters, I thank you for bringing your testimony here, but I suggest to you that if we refer to people as banditos, as you referred to them in your testimony, it does not help to solve the problem, Gutierrez said.

Witnesses on the first panel were called to testify about ICEs ACCESS program, the 287(g) law passed by Congress in 1996 that allows state and local law enforcement agencies to voluntarily sign up for training to enforce federal immigration law in their jurisdictions.

Some on the subcommittee charged that the law has led to widespread racial profiling and other abuses.

In other testimony before a joint hearing of subcommittees on immigration, border security, the Constitution, and civil rights, Julio Cesar Mora, a 19-year-old American citizen who lives in Maricopa County, Arizona, told the committee that he and his father, who is a legal resident, were detained and harassed by sheriff officers while driving to his fathers workplace.

Antonia Ramirez, a community activist from Frederick, Maryland, said that even though he and many of his fellow Hispanics are citizens, they are often the victims of discrimination. He said illegal aliens often refuse to report crimes and even suffer abuse because they fear their families will be separated by deportation.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said he was surprised by the contrast of the witnesses testimony.

I think Im seeing the embodiment of a great big problem we have in this country and the result of it is the loss of lives, the loss of innocent human lives, King said. And I listen to professor Tranchants testimony. You have to know that hes here to tell you today that if we had enforced local immigration law, his daughter would still be alive. Tessa and Ali would still be alive. And thats true for hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans who go about their lives every day, seeking to make the world a better place.

Rep. King said the testimony by Ramirez and Mora seemed designed to persuade lawmakers that enforcing immigration laws is not a good policy.

The message I get from you is that we shouldnt enforce local immigration law because there are some examples of discrimination, King said. I dont argue that it never happens. But I ask you, can you look at this on balance? Can you see the difference between the plea that you have made to this committee and the plea that Mr. Tranchant has made to this committee? Can you look him in the eye and say we should pass everybody over?

The comparison to what looks like an inconvenience to either one of you compared to the very sacred life of this mans daughter, King said.

Tranchant, whose mother immigrated to the United States from Ireland, told the committee he was shocked to learn the facts about the man who killed his daughter when the man was tried for vehicular manslaughter.

I heard at the trial that Alfredo Ramos should have been and could have been deported long before he killed my daughter, Tranchant said. In fact, this wasnt the first time hed been involved in this kind of an incident. It wasnt even the second time. Ramos had been arrested twice before.

Instead of being deported to his home country, he stayed on the streets of Virginia Beach to drink, drive, and kill these two beautiful girls in a way that showed wanton disrespect for the laws of our land, he said.

Ramos, whose blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit, was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

But Rep. Gutierrez said he thought the committee was missing the point.

I think were missing the point of the testimony here this morning and just so we have it very clear, no one ever has debated, promoted law that does not deport drunks, that does not deport rapists and murderers, Gutierrez said. Part of the problem is, its been said here by some of my colleagues on the other side — enforce the law.

This Congress and the government of the United States has not shown the political will nor committed the requisite resources to enforce the immigration law, he said. The only way to really do that is to have comprehensive immigration reform. You either sweep millions and millions of people off the streets of the United States of America, which no one is going to propose. So its always a little disingenuous to me when people say only enforce the law.

What I have seen, unfortunately, is the will to target and to victimize and to scapegoat a community of people, Gutierrez said. I have seen that readily here. It makes for great political points but it doesnt solve the problem and would not have saved your daughters life.”

Gutierrez said anti-immigrant sentiment is not new in this country.

The Irish [were] the dirty, filthy element that was coming here to undermine America. Well, it gave us a President Kennedy, he said.

Rep. Gutierrez recently embarked on a five-week tour, visiting 16 American cities, to document the harm caused by the lack of comprehensive immigration reform. As part of his Family Unity Immigration Outreach Tour, Gutierrez held community meetings for U.S. citizens whose families are at risk of being torn apart by a broken immigration system.

Gutierrez critics, including the Federation for American Immigration Reform, say he is promoting amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and the dismantling of immigration law enforcement programs.

Just so you know……..puppets come in BLACK too…….

Mexico’s and Latin American’s primary economic policy is to send their Uneducated peons and Criminals to the US for Tax payers to support and be the Victims as they rob, rape and slaughter Americans by the 10,s of thousands, Businesses to Exploit and profit from, and for Corrupt Politicians to Pander and Cuddle! While Mexico has one of the most punitive and strictly enforced immigration policies in the world!

Amnestying them & with chain immigration for their relatives and their relatives in an never ending chain will add 100,s of millions, a vast underclass of fast breeding, uneducated citizens that will make it impossible to continue the social network for American tax payers. When that occurs you will see riots, fires and pillage from coast to coast that will make the recent rioting in French by Muslim immigrants look like an cook out!

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0409/609935_video.html?ref=newsstory

President Lula said white, blue-eyed people - not Indians, nor black, nor poor people - had created and spread the crisis throughout the world.

“It is a crisis caused and encouraged by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes,” the president said, “who before the crisis appeared to know everything, but are now showing that they know nothing.”

Of course da Silva is not a racist. Only white people can be racist.

Good post and probably 100% true. The chief’s policy is SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL. keep a low profile and don’t write too many traffic tickets. I was told this by a police officer a number of years ago that he needed his supervisor’s permission before he could write a traffic citation as the chief perceived that too many tickets were being written and “we don’t want to anger the public.” We need some new “blood” in that position that will aggresivelly and fairly implement the law for EVERYONE.

WE don’t KNOW HOW MANY LATINOS commited crimes compared to Asians or Whites or Blacks as a proportion of the total population, BECAUSE WE DON’t measure it. It is POSSIBLE that MORE Latinos commit crimes than Non-Latinos, and thus that causes the “looks”, but we only measure “illegal” people, not LATINOS in crime statistics.

A better crime correlation in my opinion that eliminates this whole uncertaintly is to simply ENFORCE THE LAW on everyone the same (you are legal or you are illegal) regardless of race, religion, gender or ethnicity, and no-one will care what demographic commits more or less crime than another.

If you know someone who can’t do this because they favor Hispanic political action and advocacy over fair and equitable law enforcement…THAT IS RACISM.

You should call them on it…