June 18, 2009
Illegal Immigration And Illegal Drugs
Most conversations I hear about illegal immigration talk about the economic effects or terrorist danger to America. Apparently there is also a great deal of criminal activity on the part of some illegal aliens.
The crimes include drug dealing and trafficking, home invasion, insurance fraud, welfare fraud, auto theft, identity theft, counterfeiting documents, sex trafficking, rape, molestation, assault and murder. That’s a pretty long list, huh?
Today I’m only going to talk about the drug-related crimes. It’s estimated that illegal immigration supplies 80% of the methamphetamine in the U.S. In 2005, the feds believe that as much as 2 million kilograms of marijuana was brought into the U.S. over the Mexican border. Now it’s fair to say the majority of illegal immigrants in the United States aren’t involved in drug trafficking but the ones who are do more than enough to cause real drug-related problems here.
To illustrate how troublesome these bad apples (illegal bad apples at that) can be. The Wake County North Carolina Sheriff’s office reported that while Hispanics made up only 5.4% of the population, 46% of drug-trafficking arrests were Hispanic.
*It should be noted that the previous report did not differentiate between Hispanics here legally or illegally.*
Even looking at all the data and statistics:
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
It is difficult to know how much drug trafficking is being done by illegal immigrants or legal immigrants or both working together. It seems to me that a lot of sites start by claiming to be talking about illegal immigrants and then before you know it they drop the term illegal and then before you realize is “immigrant” turns into “Mexican” or “Hispanic.” I’m starting to see why law-abiding Hispanic citizens are angered by the way this illegal immigration debate is being carried out.
What do you think?
