GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR. Keep your criminals. While legal immigrants and illegal aliens come to America for an improved standard of living, those millions of foreigners are decidedly harming the quality of life for many in this nation -- from those who have been displaced in their jobs by cheap immigrant workers to taxpayers paying for endless infrastructure and services, students getting a worse education in radically "diverse" classrooms and crime victims who have suffered at the hands of criminal aliens in this country.
A November 2006 WorldNetDaily piece (ht-Jules Crittenden) reported that twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001. But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws.
THE ENEMY AMONG US. While the report says that 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, it says that an additional 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers each day - for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001. And while the actual number of all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens aren't tracked by the government, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.
And the deaths are just the tip of the iceberg. In its Feb. 27, 07 piece titled, "More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says" Family Security Matters estimates that the 267,000 illegal aliens currently incarcerated in the nation are responsible for nearly 1,300,000 crimes, ranging from drug arrests to rape and murder. So much for the claim that illegal immigration is a victimless crime.
Just as these illegal aliens shouldn't be here in the first place, and the people they killed shouldn't have died and the people the robbed or raped shouldn't have been victimized, Vicente Ignacio Beltran Moreno (or whatever his real name is) shouldn't have been here and 13-year-old Clay Moore shouldn't have been kidnapped, and wouldn't have, if the U.S. government had done its job of keeping the illegal Mexicans from crossing our borders in the first place.
ALL OUR CHILDREN ARE AT RISK ALL THE TIME. The man suspected of kidnapping a 13-year-old boy and leaving him tied to a tree in the woods in a ransom scheme reportedly is an illegal alien who had already been deported once. Doesn't belong here. Shouldn't be tying people to trees here.
Kidnapper Of 13 Year-old Florida Boy Is A Previously Deported Illegal Alien.
Of course you'd never know this from the headlines of the AP report which refers to the previously deported illegal Mexican as "Man" (ht-Dan Riehl). You have to read far down in the body of the AP article to learn that the kidnapper, 22 year-old Vicente Ignacio Beltran Moreno, is an "undocumented immigrant" (read as illegal alien, a criminal in the first instance, even prior to kidnapping a 13 year-old boy for ransom).
Beltran, a native of Mexico, had worked at the farm three years ago, but later became a laborer for an aluminum contractor. Beltran-Moreno lived with his girlfriend in a the house, which is in the 3700 block of 17th Street Court East. Authorities executed a search warrant on his home Sunday, March 4 and recovered a rough draft of a ransom note. Obtaining the warrants took longer than expected due to the suspected kidnapper's multiple aliases. Beltran-Moreno is an undocumented immigrant who at one time was deported from the United States.
"The ransom note is at least a ransom note that was prepared to be given to someone or it was a practice ransom note, but we have fitted it to this case and it absolutely pertains to the motive for the abduction of Clay Moore," said Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells.
Clay Moore was kidnapped at gun point from his school bus stop. Clay was abducted Friday just before 9 a.m. while he waiting for his school bus with 15 other students. The Manatee School of the Arts student was forced at gunpoint into the truck from the stop at the Kingsfield Lakes subdivision in Parrish. Authorities believe it was planned as a ransom attempt, but Moore escaped on his own. Early Friday morning, Clay was ordered to get into a red Ford Ranger, bound and taken to a wooded rural area about 20 miles away. Clay freed himself after he was left alone and then walked until he found a farm worker with a cell phone.
Authorities said Clay was chosen at random. They believe Beltran-Moreno planned to keep Clay tied up in the wooded area until the ransom was met.
Clay was waiting with about 15 other students when a man pointed a gun and forced him into an older model red pick-up truck.
The abductor drove Clay for about 20 miles to Faulkner Farms off of State Road 64 in Myakka City. He led the boy into a heavily wooded area, where he bound the boy to trees using duct tape and gagged him with one of his own socks.
The man told Clay he would return, before driving from the ranch.
Clay sat for about two hours before using a safety pin to free himself. He stumbled through the rural area until coming upon a farmworker on a tractor, who spoke little English but had a cell phone.
Clay dialed his mother at 1:30 p.m. and told her he was safe.
Deputies traced the boy's call and found him, ending the nightmarish 4½-hour ordeal.
"Obviously what threw everything into a spin was when the kid escaped," Wells said.
Wells credited the teen's keen eye for detail with breaking the case. Clay was driven to a rural area and tied to a tree, Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells said.
The boy used a safety pin he had hidden in his mouth to cut through duct tape and other bonds that were holding him, authorities and his parents said. (Full story)
He walked until he came upon some farm workers and was able to borrow a cell phone to call his parents.
Information that Clay gave authorities led them to issue an arrest warrant for Beltran-Moreno on charges of armed kidnapping and aggravated assault.
"He was right on the money with the information that he gave us," Wells said.
Police recovered the red pickup truck allegedly used in the kidnapping at the suspect's home in Bradenton, Florida.
During their investigation, police recovered a handwritten ransom note less than a page long, possibly intended for Clay's parents, that contained unspecified threats, Wells said.
"It was his intention, the suspect's intention, to leave Clay Moore tied in the woods until he got his money," Wells said.
Kidnapper was afraid of being locked up in a Mexican prison, so he turned himself in on the Texas side of the border. Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno, 22, turned himself over to U.S. authorities after walking across the U.S.-Mexico border at the Hidalgo County crossing, Maj. Connie Shingledecker said at a news conference.
Beltran-Moreno had fled to Sinaloa state on Mexico's Pacific coast soon after the February 23 abduction of Clay Moore, 13, Shingledecker said.
The suspect was with relatives in his native Mexico, and authorities persuaded him to turn himself in Wednesday in Texas through a series of daily phone calls, Shingledecker said.
She said arrangements were being made to extradite Beltran-Moreno from Texas.
Authorities say Beltran-Moreno abducted the boy at gunpoint from a school bus stop in Parrish, Florida, about 30 miles southeast of St. Petersburg, Florida.
The USA is not rough on illegal immigrants. If you think the USA is tough on illegals, look at how Mexico treats the undocumented. Mexican criminals would rather vacation in US maximum security prisons than spend one day in a Mexican jail. Beltran-Moreno was more than happy to be given the opportunity to surrender in Texas when he found out that the US was about to ask the Mexican authorities to detain him.
In 2005 when the US Congress talked about making the presence of illegal immigrants in the US a felony, no country cried more loudly or with more indignation than Mexico. Then-President Vincente Fox called such legislation "shameful", and siad the undocumented workers were "heroes".
In Mexico, an illegal immigrant is subject to 2 years in jail, plus a monetary fine. Anyone deported and caught reentering Mexico, faces 10 years in jail. That is Article 123 of the General Population Law.
Close estimates are that over 185,000 illegal immigrants are caught in Mexico each year. Most come from Guatemala and Honduras, and they are on their way to "El Norte", the pet term by which illegals fundly refer to the United States.
There are 48 Mexican Detention Centers in Mexico. They have no hot water and no telephones. (So, how is a guy supposed to make his one Constitutionally allowed phone call? Not in Mexico. That is when you reach El Norte.)
The Mexican commission on Human Rights have documented cases of up to 78 illegals being crammed into cells designed to hold only 4 prisoners. They are often denied food and water for the first 24 hours.
Is there any wonder that accused criminals would scramble to surrender across the Border in Texas or California than in Mexico. They might be crazy; but, they are not stupid.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with President Bush on 13 March 2007 in Merida, Yucatan Peninsula. President Bush, working to rebuild strained U.S.-Mexico relations, promised he would do his best to get a deeply divided U.S. Congress to change American immigration policies that are hated south of the border.
My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I'll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Bush said during a sun-splashed arrival ceremony that opened two days of meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in this Yucatan Peninsula tourist haven.
Relations between the two border countries have only grown worse since Bush signed a law calling for construction of more than 700 miles of new fencing along the long border the two countries share.
Calderon has lambasted the fence — a mix of physical and high-tech barriers. He likens it to the Berlin Wall, and argues that both countries need to improve Mexico's economy to lessen the desire to seek work in the United States.
Before their talks, Calderon had a tough message for Bush: The United States must do more to solve thorny issues of drug-trafficking and immigration.
We fully respect the right that the government and the people of the United States has to decide within its territory what will be best for their concerns and security," he said as he welcomed Bush. "But at the same time we do consider in a respectful way that" migration can't be stopped with a fence.
Calderon, a conservative who narrowly won the contested July election, is under pressure from a strong leftist opposition to alleviate poverty affecting half of Mexico's citizens, and refrain from being a subordinate to the more powerful United States. The Mexican leader has said he's not interested in being Bush's front man for battling Chavez' rising influence.
The biggest hurdle, Bush said, is figuring out what to do with the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the United States. The president has proposed a guest worker plan that would allow legal employment for foreigners and give some illegals a shot at becoming American citizens. Critics say this rewards unlawful behavior.
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