Category Archives: Crime

The Immigration-Industrial-Complex Culpable For Kathryn Steinle

On the murder by proxy of Kathryn Steinle: Don’t you love the way ICE, the federal wing of the immigration-industrial-complex, is out-front about the slaying of Ms. Steinle? The Immigration and Customs Enforcement is gleeful that this time it’s the city of San Francisco that unleashed a predator on to its streets. But there are as many instances of ICE unleashing the same caliber of criminal on the people they swore to protect as there are instances of localities doing the same. More, actually:

According to weekly detention and departure reports from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there were 167,527 non-detained convicted criminal aliens in the United States as of Jan. 26 of this year, … ICE admitted to releasing 36,007 criminal aliens from the agency’s custody in Fiscal Year 2013, including those convicted of sex crimes, homicide, drunk driving, kidnapping and robbery. Of these, 1,000 went on to commit new crimes ranging from assault with a deadly weapon and lewd acts with a child to aggravated assault, robbery, and hit-and-run.

MORE.

The federal government usually takes states to court if local law-enforcement so much as asks an illegal alien about his immigration status. All wings of the Immigration-Industrial-Complex are responsible for this young woman’s death and the fate of many like her. It could be any of us.

UPDATED: The Murder By Proxy Of Kathryn Steinle

Crime, Government, IMMIGRATION

San Francisco is a “sanctuary city” for the likes of Francisco Sanchez, but not for Kathryn Steinle’s ilk. This beautiful, innocent young woman is dead, murdered. Who killed her, allegedly? Francisco Sanchez did, allegedly. Did this criminal illegal alien have accessories to the crime? He did. These are the lawmakers and law enforcers of the “sanctuary city” of San Francisco. Via NBC:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Sanchez was turned over to San Francisco authorities in March, and that the agency had asked for him to remain in custody until immigration authorities could pick him up. That request was not honored, ICE told The Associated Press. Sanchez’s criminal history includes seven prior felony convictions, four of which involve narcotics charges, ICE said in a statement.

San Francisco is a “sanctuary city,” one of a host of places across the U.S. that gives some protection to illegal immigrants by barring local officials from asking people about their immigration status. Steinle’s death has sparked debate over whether sanctuary cities need to re-examine their policies.

Doff of the hat to Linda Schrock Taylor (author of Read Better! For Adults & Teens) for sending a resource called “US Illegal Alien Crime Report.” Government refuses to tally the culling of innocent Americans by this cohort. So citizen journalists are doing the dirty work.

Ms. Steinle’s name won’t find its way into President Obama’s racial bloviations.

UPDATE (7/5): This death is not about aggregates; propensities for crime; it’s about a life that should not have been taken; a girl that should NOT be dead, and who is dead b/c of the state. To justify his presence that day around that young woman, you would have to show that had Sanchez been deported or jailed, his victim would have nevertheless suffered the same fate at the hands of another local murderer. A deeply silly suggestion, you would agree.

Why The National, Disproportionate Preoccupation With Two Perps?

Crime, IMMIGRATION, Justice, Law

It took hundreds of law-enforcement officers, aided by border patrol agents, to corner and catch two outlaws, on the lam in northern New York for three weeks. The manhunt for notorious killers Richard Matt and David Sweat is over (read the tedious details for yourself). As the law spares no effort in … praising itself, we can ponder the disproportionate obsession with these two criminals.

In particular, criminals of the Matt and Sweat caliber (or potential) cross the country’s Southwest, wide-open borders almost every day. They go on to integrate into drug cartels (yes, I’m pro-legalization; always have been), as drunk drivers and petty or not-so-petty criminals. No one stops them. No one is allowed to ask them for their pedigree.

So why the out-of-whack preoccupation with these two perps?

A Candidate To ‘Kick The Crap Out Of All The Politicians’

Business, Celebrity, Crime, Elections, IMMIGRATION, Media, Politics

“A Candidate To ‘Kick The Crap Out Of All The Politicians’” is the current column, now on The Unz Review. An excerpt:

Since he announced for president, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump has distinguished himself from the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls.

Trump claims he opposed the invasion of Iraq. If this is true, it would make him better than almost all his Republican competitors, who mulishly continue to justify the most disastrous military campaign in American history (besides the War Between The States).

Decisive and to the point was Trump about liberalizing ties with Cuba: “It’s time!” he stated. The man who wrote “The Art of The Deal,” however, would rather a “deal” with Cuba favored ordinary Americans and Cubans, and would know how to “deliver the goods.”

We inhabit a world of managed, not free, trade. Trump is no rent-seeking political rat like every other Republican competing for the throne (besides Ben Carson, who is similarly motivated). Better than any self-interested politician, Trump can probably negotiate winning deals on all Treaties in Force, to the benefit of Americans.

“I’m really rich,” Trump swanked disarmingly. Being independently and stupendously wealthy means that this American individualist can continue to march to his own drumbeat; be as blunt and bold as he wants and pander to nobody.

“His fellow GOP presidential candidates,” explained Trump, are “totally controlled by their donors, by the lobbyists and by the special interests. If we have another politician, this country’s going down. … I’ve watched the politicians, I’ve dealt with them all my life. They will never make America great again. They don’t even have a chance.”

In the productive, non-parasitical economy, Trump has been enormously successful. Career politicians have created the hot mess that is America. The Founding Fathers wanted regular citizens to serve the public, not live off it as a vocation. Such upstanding Americans were to return to their careers after serving.

The consummate homo economicus, Trump is a rational actor in the market place. Unlike the rest of the GOP contenders who’re guided by political calculations; Trump speaks like a man to whom rational economic choices are second nature. …

… Read the rest. “A Candidate To ‘Kick The Crap Out Of All The Politicians’” is the current column, now on The Unz Review.