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Hispanic Immigrants: The New Face Of Federal Crime

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Eighty percent of “offenders sentenced in federal courts” in 2007 were Hispanic according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

The convictions for most -75%- were for “unlawfully entering or remaining in the U.S.”
To dispel any racist belief that Hispanics as are a crime-prone ethic group, it should be noted that the share of Hispanics held in state prisons, where the majority of the 2.3 million U.S. convicts reside, was in contrast only 19%, mostly convicted for drugs.   
The issue affecting Hispanics as a whole is not the commission of murders and burglaries, but the criminalizing of immigrants “unlawfully remaining” in the United States.

The botched and biased nature of enforcement operations is coming to light now such as in the 2007 Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at a Seven Eleven in Maryland.   Testimonies reveal the existence of “quotas” of immigrant arrests that had to be met regardless; calls for “more bodies” resulted in the targeting of any Hispanic-looking individual without “probable cause”, a key element of our Fourth Amendment constitutional protections for civilians against unreasonable searches and arrests.  The aftermath of this obsession with Hispanics was that, not only non-fugitive and non-dangerous aliens were arrested; U.S. citizens had been affected too.

The figures published this week give us a glimpse of part of that sad immigration tale, and illustrate that as a legacy of the past 8 years, the Federal Enforcement and Justice apparatuses were consumed with their dealing with Hispanic undocumented or ‘unlawful’ immigrants.

The earnestness in punishing undocumented immigrants in 2007 was such that the National Fugitive Operations Program experienced a “17-fold increase since fiscal 2003” in the number of immigrants arrested according to the Migration Policy Institute.

A humanitarian global crisis, of millions of people fleeing poor and war torn countries is being handled as a crime, and in America this “crime” has taken precedence over Murder, Sexual abuse, Drug and Firearms trafficking, White Collar crimes such as embezzlement and corruption.

The ‘law is the law’ claim some bigots wrapped in American flags to justify this onerous and preposterous anti-immigrant fever, while they regard the Constitution and Human Rights as outdated.  Its time to get our priorities right!

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