Timothy Birdnow

In another story from St. Louis University, the staff of the U news calls for SLU to become a sanctuary campus in violation of federal law.

After praising illegal invaders to the hilt the editors write the following lie:

"Undocumented immigrants do not pose the threat to our country that individuals like Trump have claimed. The Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit research organization that is against granting legal status to undocumented immigrants, has not found that undocumented immigrants are more likely to commit crimes. "There’s no evidence that immigrants are either more or less likely to commit crimes than anyone else in the population,” Janice Kephart, a CIS researcher, said in 2015."

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This is a lie because they use the word immigrant and not illegal alien. There is a vast distinction because immigrants are not more likely to commit crimes (by and large) but that does not mean illegal aliens are not. They committed a crime just by breaking and entering this country. The fact is, illegal aliens are quite prone to crime.

According to Ben Shapiro:

"On the other side of the argument, Northwestern University researcher Jorg Spenkuch has found, according to Reason, "a ten percent increase in the share of immigrants–roughly one percentage point based on numbers from the 2000 Census–is estimated to lead to an increase in the property crime rate of circa 1.2 percent, while the rate of violent crimes remains essentially unaffected.”

The Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-illegal immigration group, cites criminal statistics from certain counties, like Maricopa County, Arizona, where 22 percent of felons are illegal immigrants; they point out that as of 2009, "57 percent of the 76 fugitive murderers most wanted by the FBI were foreign-born”; they rip the "poor quality of data used” in the PPIC and IPC studies, with good reason. Why this controversy? Shouldn’t it be easy to determine the criminality rate of illegal immigrants by, for example, determining the place of origin for those currently in America’s prisons? It would be, but as Ann Coulter has pointed out, the government refuses to measure such statistics:

Instead of counting the immigrant stock filling up our prisons, the government issues a series of comical reports claiming to tally immigrant crime. The Department of Justice relies on immigrants’ self-reports of their citizenship. The U.S. census simply guesses the immigration status of inmates. The Government Accounting Office conducts its own analysis of Bureau of Prisons data. In other words, the government hasn’t the first idea how many prisoners are legal immigrants, illegal immigrants or anchor babies."

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and according to Randall Hoven at American Thinker:

"The Government Accountability Office has data that show otherwise. Here is the leading sentence from a 2011 GAO report (GAO-11-187, Criminal Alien Statistics, March 2011).

"The number of criminal aliens in federal prisons in fiscal year 2010 was about 55,000, and the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails was about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009 (the most recent data available), and the majority were from Mexico.”

(SCAAP is the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program and in this context means "illegal aliens” – a GAO term meaning "Noncitizens whom ICE verified were [or whom states and local jurisdictions believe to be] illegally in the United States at the time of incarceration”.)

As for those federal prisoners, the GAO states, "In fiscal year 2005, the criminal alien population in federal prisons was around 27 percent of the total inmate population, and from fiscal years 2006 through 2010 remained consistently around 25 percent.”

The Washington Post cites an even higher number for 2013, 38.6%, yet dismisses those federal numbers as "not indicative of general crime trends of non-citizens,” because most criminals are incarcerated in state or local facilities."

Hoven goes on to show unequivocally that illegals commit violent crimes at a much higher rate than do citizens. But the government doesn't keep records and they unquestionably fudge the data (remember we don't even know how many illegal aliens we have in this country.)

Legal immigrants generally WANT to be here and will not do something to jeopardize that. Illegals are different.

And even if it is true, the logic is flawed because we would have ZERO crime from illegal aliens if they were not here. That is the flaw in all the arguments over statistics. Even if illegals were generally good residents the fact remains we would have no problem with crime in their community if there was no such community. The fact is they are all criminals; they broke the law coming here, and break the law on a regular basis by stealing that which rightfully belongs to American citizens. They use social services they have not paid for, take jobs they have no right to take, force our government and businesses to employ translators because they don't speak our language, and steal our resources in dozens of ways, from police protection to medical care to schooling. They may not be malicious but they are criminal.

And the answer from the U News editors is to break the law yet again.

Sanctuary policies must be met with firm resolve by Mr. Trump and those who care about the United States. I would suggest cutting off financial aid to SLU if they should declare themselves a sanctuary campus; that would get their attention! Colleges are far heavily subsidized by government, and most students attend on the taxpayer dime. If they want to flip the taxpayers the bird they can underwrite their own college education.

It is that simple. We should not allow this to happen; it only requires resolve.

California and Maryland both want to be sanctuary states. Well, fine! If they want to annul the laws of the land then they can finance their little utopias themselves. Trump could order all Federal institutions be removed from those states; all military bases, all government offices, etc. How long will they hold out? These hypocrites want our money but don't want to follow our rules.

In the end, Jesuit values at SLU do not include lawlessness. Jesus told His Disciples to obey the laws, yet here we have some snot-nosed spoiled brats calling for illegality because they don't like the fact we have borders. It's time reality bleeds through the cocoon of their safe spaces.

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