Top Myth Exposed On Illegal Immigration

Shattering the myth that most illegal immigrants are of an innocent "benign class" who just want a better life, research now exposes a very different reality. We now know that most illegal aliens who come the US to “simply work” are also “simply felony perpetrators” under both federal and state laws.

The under reported reality is, in almost every case, the illegal immigrant has committed one or more felonies or misdemeanors (or both) in order to arrive in the US unlawfully, secure false identification or work authorization, or other unlawfully gained benefits.

Most Americans do not know it is a serious crime to falsify US citizen claim. It is a federal felony under US Code 1028A, a crime that nearly all illegal aliens have committed.

In 1986 Congress made it illegal to work in the US without authorization or US citizenship. The act required all employers to ensure their employees were fully documented as proof of compliance. Since then, anyone working in the US unlawfully has done so by violating several laws, many of which are classified as either state or federal felonies. Typical crimes perpetrated by illegal immigrants working in the US include:

• False US citizenship claim and perjury
• Document forgery (2 items of ID per person, or two violations of law)
• Identity theft (knowingly or unknowingly using another person’s name, SS#, or other unique identifier)
• Using fraudulent or forged documents (1 violation of law per job held)
• Attempted use of forged documents (when denied employment, banking, etc.)
• Money instrument fraud (cashing checks or money orders under a false name)
• Working for cash (non-payroll tax evasion)
• Working for cash (income tax evasion)
• And the list goes....

Under California Penal Code 470, document forgery is treated as a so called “Wobbler” in that it may be prosecuted as a misdemeanor or felony. The penalties are 1 to 3 years jail, up to $10k fine, and the offender may be required to do community service as well as pay restitution to those harmed. Yet of the millions of criminal aliens currently working in that state with such documents, few have ever been prosecuted.

Under New York law (Article 179), possessing or using a false document in most cases is both a misdemeanor and a Class D felony. New York has one of the lowest prosecution rates in the nation for criminal aliens, which many claim is remarkable given that most of the 9-11 hijackers were immigration law violators.

The Government Accounting Office (GAO) calculated that 63% of all persons on U.S. soil illegally also work illegally in a report tendered to Congress in 1977. Assuming the ratio stands, and also using multiple data resource averages to estimate there are 16 million illegal aliens in the US currently, this suggests there are 10.1 million unlawful workers who have perpetrated at least one or more felonies related to employment aspects.

This does not include other criminal aspects, such a crossing a border illegally more than once, which is a federal felony. Again, using multiple sources of data and estimates by ICE officials, as many as 90% of those who have crossed the border illegally have done do after being caught once (hence have committed serious felonies).

Then there are human and drug trafficking and other related black market crimes associated with many illegal aliens. Perhaps one of the most egregious of all crimes, child endangerment, is committed by thousands of mothers and father or family members per month when making illegal crossings yet such crimes are rarely prosecuted even when children are harmed or even die. Illegal immigration could be harming as many as ten thousand children or more per year because of US policies and grass roots groups encouraging the crime.

Combining all sources of data from local, state, and federal sources, we see a picture that tends to indicate that over 90% of those in the US unlawfully have committed serious crimes but have not been prosecuted and convicted, thus show no current criminal record. As ICE and other law enforcement agencies continue to refuse to prosecute such criminals, they are then released onto US streets and falsely classified as “benign class aliens” when in fact they have typically committed one or more serious crimes—crimes that would land most US citizens in jail for years!

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