FSM Contributing Editor Andy Selepak details here the many sex crimes illegals commit. With a staggering 93 sex offenders illegally crossing the border each day, the fact that they commit these heinous crimes is no surprise. What IS a surprise, and a disgrace, is how silent our spineless, vote-seeking politicians and the complicit media are about this family-and-life-threatening issue. Complain to your Congressional reps…your opinion matters!
Illegal Alien Sex Fiends
By Andy Selepak
There are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States. This staggering statistic, rarely mentioned by the media, was revealed in a study by Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta , Georgia. "It is clear," she says, "that the U.S. public faces a dangerous threat from sex predators who cross the U.S. borders illegally." What's more, she adds, "Then they gradually commit worse crimes and are continually released back into society or deported. Those who were deported simply returned illegally again."
If ever there was an argument for building a border fence, this is it. But other than two stories on WorldNetDaily, generated by an appearance on CNN, we haven't found any coverage of these extraordinary statistics.
Yet, as reported by Wes Vernon in a new AIM Report, the Bush Administration is embarked on a controversial and secretive plan to effectively erase U.S. borders and establish a North American Union to facilitate the flow of people and goods from Mexico into the U.S.
The study investigated 1,500 cases of "serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides, and child molestations committed by illegal immigrants" between January, 1999 and April, 2006. Of the 1,500 cases examined, illegal immigrant offenders were located in 36 states with the highest number of sexual offenders in California, Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New York, and Florida.
Schurman-Kauflin reports that according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records, sex offenders comprise two percent of illegals apprehended. Using the statistics by ICE and the conservative estimate of 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, Schurman-Kauflin estimates there are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders currently residing in the United States. Also using the two-percent figure, this means that 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sex offenders are illegally crossing the border into the U.S. every day.
Of the 1,500 sex offenders examined in this study, each sex offender averaged four victims for a total of approximately 6,000 victims over the 88-month period. Using these statistics, Schurman-Kauflin estimated that there were 960,000 sex crimes committed by illegal immigrants between January, 1999 and April, 2006. Particularly disturbing was that 22% of the victims of sex crimes committed by illegal immigrants had physical or mental handicaps, and all disabled victims were under the age of 18.
Of the 1,500 cases examined, 35% were child molestations, 24% were rapes, and 41% were sexual homicides and serial murders; 617 cases. Of the child molestations, 47% of the victims were Hispanic and 36% were Caucasian. In 82% of the cases, the victims were known to their attackers, and 18% were molested by strangers. Of those victims molested by strangers, Schurman-Kauflin reports that "the illegal immigrants typically gained access to the victims after having worked as a day laborer at or near the victims' homes. Victims ranged in age from one-year-old to 13-years-old, with the average age being six." Although nearly 30% of the victims of sex crimes by illegal immigrants were illegal immigrants themselves, 70% of the victims were Americans.
In the 358 rape cases investigated, the women were often brutally attacked, and over 70% of the time the rape victims were beaten by their attackers. In addition, in .007% of the cases, the victims were gang-raped by two or more illegal immigrant sex offenders. The study also found that although serial rapists only accounted for three percent of all illegal immigrant rapists, serial rapists averaged five victims, and two of serial rapists examined in this study were confirmed HIV positive. In six percent of the cases of sexual homicide and serial murder, the bodies of the victims were mutilated. Caucasians were the most likely victims of sexual homicide by illegal immigrants. The average age of all victims of sexual homicide by illegal immigrants was 42, but the victims varied in ages from 16 to 81.
Although the illegal immigrant sex offenders came from various countries around the world, the highest number came from Mexico; El Salvador was the country of origin for the next highest number of illegal immigrant sex offenders.
In another testament to how poor security remains along the U.S.-Mexico border, the report found that nearly 63% of the illegal immigrant sex offenders had been deported at least once before prior to committing a sex crime in the U.S. The illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes here in the U.S. typically have committed more crimes than simply entering this country illegally. "Only two percent of the offenders in this study have no history of criminal behavior, beyond crossing the border illegally."
The media want us to believe that illegal immigrants are the victims, that "undocumented workers" come to the U.S. to do jobs we are not willing to do, and that they come here illegally to find a better life. But as this report clearly shows, Americans are the real victims of illegal immigration and an inept immigration policy.
Since 1999 there have been nearly one million victims of rape, child molestation, sexual homicides, and rape and molestation of handicapped children by illegal immigrants here in the U.S. Remember this fact the next time the media try to tell you about the victims of U.S. immigration policy and border security.
It's not the "undocumented workers" who are the victims of our immigration policy, it is the one million Americans being raped at the hands of illegal immigrants who are the real victims.
In a May, 2006 column from his Congressional website , Iowa Congressmen Steve King, wrote that every day, eight American children are the victims of a sex crime by illegal immigrants. But our media go out of their way to insist they are law-abiding and merely "undocumented workers."
Andy Selepak, a writer at Accuracy in Media, is the author of the study, New Evidence of Liberal Media Bias, published as an AIM Report. He can be reached at andrew.selepak@aim.org
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
Machete wielding rapist illegal
Scum, scum, scum. Notice how this reporter calls them "citizen of El Salvador" instead of the correct ILLEGAL ALIEN scum that they are.
2 men abduct, rape woman
By Rochelle E.B. Gilken
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 05, 2007
A woman was walking home alone, chatting on her phone, when two men pulled over to make obscene comments.
The 18-year-old told them to get lost, but one of them got out of the car with a 3-foot machete, swiped the cellphone from her ear and forced her into his old black Honda Civic, she told the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
The last thing her cousin heard before the line went dead, about 10 p.m. Dec 23, was the woman saying "Relax" in Spanish.
For the next seven hours, the men drove her miles away, then took turns raping her on a secluded street, and again on the beach next to a palm tree at the Lake Worth Pier, according to the sheriff's office arrest report.
The men drank Bud Light, stopped for more beer and motor oil and poured beer on her, claiming she disrespected them when they invited her into their car at Sherwood Forest Boulevard and Purdy Lane, a suburban intersection near Greenacres.
On Wednesday, a felon named Jose Guzman, 23, was charged with three counts of armed sexual battery and kidnapping. The other man has not been identified or arrested.
The woman was walking home from the Wal-Mart at Jog Road and Forest Hill Boulevard after Christmas shopping when she was attacked. She's a newlywed married a few months, who works two jobs as a waitress and receptionist.
She was shopping with her husband, but he left in the car after they got into an argument. She started walking home in the dark around 9:30 p.m.
"He (her husband) was pretty distraught at the hospital. You get in a little tiff and you take the car and let her walk home ... He was beating himself up," said Detective Robert Falbe.
The woman told deputies she was so scared that when the men let her out of the car in Lake Worth around 4:45 a.m. Christmas Eve, she was sure that she would be stabbed in the back, the sheriff's office report said.
But when she stepped away, crying, they threw her purse at her, the sheriff's office said.
She went into the Chevron gas station on Lucerne Avenue and someone called 911.
She was then taken to JFK Medical Center in Atlantis. She had body aches and bumps on her head from the car's center console. Neither attacker used a condom, she said.
The investigation led to Guzman after Falbe spotted his Civic at the Tavares Cove mobile home park off Sherwood Forest Boulevard.
Guzman had the same two gold teeth as the attacker. He also had a machete in his car.
The victim, whose name was not released by the sheriff's office because she is a victim of a sex crime, also picked Guzman out of a photo line-up, the arrest report said.
The woman said she doesn't know where she was taken because the men took turns holding her down.
She said they barely talked, though Guzman complained the other man was driving too fast and they called each other "brother." She saw signs that looked like Interstate 95 and believes they got off around Boynton Beach.
She told them she had a 1-year-old child - a lie to elicit sympathy - but they only said they were sorry that her baby and husband would not see her again, the arrest report said.
They later stopped at the Lake Worth Pier for more than an hour, and were interrupted after hearing voices nearby.
Guzman, a citizen of El Salvador, does lawn maintenance on a work visa. He denied being involved and told detectives that many lawn workers have machetes.
In October 2001, at 18, he was arrested for allegedly battering his live-in girlfriend, who was two months pregnant. She told deputies he came home drunk, beat her and choked her until she nearly passed out.
Three months later, he was arrested by Lantana police, charged with aggravated battery on the same woman, then 19.
Later that year, Boynton Beach police arrested him for leaving the scene of an accident, DUI and other charges after driving into a traffic pole.
The other suspect is a Hispanic man with ear-length curly dark hair, a thin beard, acne and a white striped button-down shirt.
Anyone with information is asked to call Falbe at (561) 688-4147 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-TIPS.
2 men abduct, rape woman
By Rochelle E.B. Gilken
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 05, 2007
A woman was walking home alone, chatting on her phone, when two men pulled over to make obscene comments.
The 18-year-old told them to get lost, but one of them got out of the car with a 3-foot machete, swiped the cellphone from her ear and forced her into his old black Honda Civic, she told the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
The last thing her cousin heard before the line went dead, about 10 p.m. Dec 23, was the woman saying "Relax" in Spanish.
For the next seven hours, the men drove her miles away, then took turns raping her on a secluded street, and again on the beach next to a palm tree at the Lake Worth Pier, according to the sheriff's office arrest report.
The men drank Bud Light, stopped for more beer and motor oil and poured beer on her, claiming she disrespected them when they invited her into their car at Sherwood Forest Boulevard and Purdy Lane, a suburban intersection near Greenacres.
On Wednesday, a felon named Jose Guzman, 23, was charged with three counts of armed sexual battery and kidnapping. The other man has not been identified or arrested.
The woman was walking home from the Wal-Mart at Jog Road and Forest Hill Boulevard after Christmas shopping when she was attacked. She's a newlywed married a few months, who works two jobs as a waitress and receptionist.
She was shopping with her husband, but he left in the car after they got into an argument. She started walking home in the dark around 9:30 p.m.
"He (her husband) was pretty distraught at the hospital. You get in a little tiff and you take the car and let her walk home ... He was beating himself up," said Detective Robert Falbe.
The woman told deputies she was so scared that when the men let her out of the car in Lake Worth around 4:45 a.m. Christmas Eve, she was sure that she would be stabbed in the back, the sheriff's office report said.
But when she stepped away, crying, they threw her purse at her, the sheriff's office said.
She went into the Chevron gas station on Lucerne Avenue and someone called 911.
She was then taken to JFK Medical Center in Atlantis. She had body aches and bumps on her head from the car's center console. Neither attacker used a condom, she said.
The investigation led to Guzman after Falbe spotted his Civic at the Tavares Cove mobile home park off Sherwood Forest Boulevard.
Guzman had the same two gold teeth as the attacker. He also had a machete in his car.
The victim, whose name was not released by the sheriff's office because she is a victim of a sex crime, also picked Guzman out of a photo line-up, the arrest report said.
The woman said she doesn't know where she was taken because the men took turns holding her down.
She said they barely talked, though Guzman complained the other man was driving too fast and they called each other "brother." She saw signs that looked like Interstate 95 and believes they got off around Boynton Beach.
She told them she had a 1-year-old child - a lie to elicit sympathy - but they only said they were sorry that her baby and husband would not see her again, the arrest report said.
They later stopped at the Lake Worth Pier for more than an hour, and were interrupted after hearing voices nearby.
Guzman, a citizen of El Salvador, does lawn maintenance on a work visa. He denied being involved and told detectives that many lawn workers have machetes.
In October 2001, at 18, he was arrested for allegedly battering his live-in girlfriend, who was two months pregnant. She told deputies he came home drunk, beat her and choked her until she nearly passed out.
Three months later, he was arrested by Lantana police, charged with aggravated battery on the same woman, then 19.
Later that year, Boynton Beach police arrested him for leaving the scene of an accident, DUI and other charges after driving into a traffic pole.
The other suspect is a Hispanic man with ear-length curly dark hair, a thin beard, acne and a white striped button-down shirt.
Anyone with information is asked to call Falbe at (561) 688-4147 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-TIPS.
Arnold rewarding illegal kids
Now this really stinks. I want free health care for my kids. Oh, I forgot. My kids are AMERICAN CITIZENS. We have to subsidize these leaches.
Gov. to seek insurance for all children
Illegal immigrants would be covered in his plan to overhaul the state health-care system. By Jordan Rau Times Staff Writer 9:35 AM PST, January 4, 2007
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose that all Californian children, including those in the state illegally, be guaranteed medical insurance as part of the health-care overhaul he intends to unveil next week, according to officials familiar with the plan. If enacted by the Legislature, his proposal would affect about 763,000 children who now lack insurance. Although the administration has not revealed details of how it would pay for such a program, officials estimate that extending insurance to all children could cost the state as much as $400 million a year. That would be a small piece of Schwarzenegger's stated goal: to ensure medical coverage for all of the 6.5 million Californians who now have none. Experts say that could cost upward of $10 billion a year. If successful, the governor's effort to cover all children would be a substantial political feat. Only a few states guarantee coverage for all those under 18. Schwarzenegger himself vetoed a measure to cover all children in 2005, complaining that lawmakers offered no way to pay for it. California's Republican legislators, who blocked a more modest effort to extend health-care coverage last year, are sure to rebel against a plan that includes children of illegal immigrants. Schwarzenegger is scheduled to announce his full health plan Monday. His office is still finalizing many parts of that package, but aides have made clear that it will be an ambitious effort to restrain health-care costs and reduce the state's uninsured population. All sectors of the health-care industry, including hospitals, insurers, doctors, patients, businesses and government, would pay some of the costs under Schwarzenegger's plan. People familiar with the proposal say that it includes new requirements for businesses to cover employees, though the details were unclear. The more cost shouldered by employers and workers, the less the state would have to spend. In addition, a number of measures favored by some aides, such as limiting the profits of insurers, remain undecided. "There is no final health plan," said Adam Mendelsohn, Schwarzenegger's communications director. "As has been the case from the start, all ideas are on the table and the final touches are being applied. The administration is not confirming the inclusion of any one piece."But several independent sources said Schwarzenegger had committed to the framework of the children's insurance portion. Administration officials have privately told people outside government that they intend to guarantee medical coverage for children of families earning up to 300% of the poverty level, or $60,000 a year for a family of four. Those families have 90% of the children without insurance. But the cutoff is not yet set in stone. Schwarzenegger's proposal goes further than one put forward last month by Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata (D-Oakland). His plan excluded illegal immigrants. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) incorporated children of undocumented residents into his plan, which also was announced in December."A lot of us are really looking to [Schwarzenegger] for leadership," said Wendy Lazarus, founder of the Children's Partnership, a nonpartisan child advocacy group based in Santa Monica and Washington, D.C. "Assuming he is going to tell us that he is going to cover all kids, this is great news for California's kids."About 90% of California's children already have insurance, either through their parents' coverage or through state Medi-Cal programs that help the impoverished. For years, advocates have been pressing lawmakers to finish the job, arguing that the electorate would be sympathetic to the plight of children."It's the low-hanging fruit of the health-care reform debate," said Dr. Bob Ross, president of the California Endowment, a private foundation in Los Angeles that was created to push for expanded access to health care."Kids are relatively cheaper to cover" than adults, he said. "From a public health standpoint, it's smarter to cover all children regardless of immigration. You just don't want unimmunized kids surfing around in the population." Such arguments have yet to win the day in Sacramento. Last year, Schwarzenegger backed a budget plan that would have helped fund local children's initiatives. Republican lawmakers blocked the proposal, because it would have included coverage for children of illegal immigrants. "We believe Californians do not want to reward illegal behavior," said Assembly Republican leader Mike Villines of Clovis. "There are so many here [legally] who are hurting and trying to make ends meet, we've got to focus on them first." The GOP is a minority in both houses of the Legislature, but most proposals involving state spending require a two-thirds vote, giving Republicans the power to stop them. However, it is possible that Schwarzenegger's plan could be molded to need a simple majority vote, like the last major piece of health-care legislation to become law. That measure, a 2003 mandate that most employers provide insurance for their workers, was repealed by voters the following year. Schwarzenegger has taken incremental steps to expand existing programs aimed at children's health, including the addition of $80 million to the state budget last year. Martha Escutia, a former Democratic state senator from Whittier who pressed for coverage of all children, including those of illegal immigrants, said Schwarzenegger told her in 2004 that he agreed with her."I said very bluntly that there was no way we could distinguish between children based on legal status," she recalled Wednesday. "And the governor agreed. He said, 'Children are children.' I remember him saying that very clearly."Sixty-nine percent of Californian children without health insurance in 2005 were eligible for existing programs but were not enrolled, according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. That was due to a variety of factors, including inadequate funds in some county programs to cover all those who qualified, and some of the bureaucratic requirements for entering state programs. Many parents, for instance, are required to prove that their earnings are low enough to qualify their children. There is disagreement about how many of the uninsured children are here illegally. A 2003 UCLA survey said that 33% were not citizens, but that does not mean that they were in the country illegally. Ross, of the California Endowment, said the number was below 15%. Most of the other states that already guarantee coverage for all children do it through state-paid programs for those from poor families, and by allowing better-off families to cover their children by paying a portion of the costs for the same programs. Typically, the more a family earns, the more it pays. Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Vermont all have such programs.Lazarus, of the Children's Partnership, said that although California would not be the first to cover all children, it has fewer employers providing insurance and more illegal immigrants than other states, making coverage more challenging."For California to step up at this time when states and Congress are really focused on health-care reform means that California could have a really significant leadership role across the nation," she said.
Gov. to seek insurance for all children
Illegal immigrants would be covered in his plan to overhaul the state health-care system. By Jordan Rau Times Staff Writer 9:35 AM PST, January 4, 2007
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose that all Californian children, including those in the state illegally, be guaranteed medical insurance as part of the health-care overhaul he intends to unveil next week, according to officials familiar with the plan. If enacted by the Legislature, his proposal would affect about 763,000 children who now lack insurance. Although the administration has not revealed details of how it would pay for such a program, officials estimate that extending insurance to all children could cost the state as much as $400 million a year. That would be a small piece of Schwarzenegger's stated goal: to ensure medical coverage for all of the 6.5 million Californians who now have none. Experts say that could cost upward of $10 billion a year. If successful, the governor's effort to cover all children would be a substantial political feat. Only a few states guarantee coverage for all those under 18. Schwarzenegger himself vetoed a measure to cover all children in 2005, complaining that lawmakers offered no way to pay for it. California's Republican legislators, who blocked a more modest effort to extend health-care coverage last year, are sure to rebel against a plan that includes children of illegal immigrants. Schwarzenegger is scheduled to announce his full health plan Monday. His office is still finalizing many parts of that package, but aides have made clear that it will be an ambitious effort to restrain health-care costs and reduce the state's uninsured population. All sectors of the health-care industry, including hospitals, insurers, doctors, patients, businesses and government, would pay some of the costs under Schwarzenegger's plan. People familiar with the proposal say that it includes new requirements for businesses to cover employees, though the details were unclear. The more cost shouldered by employers and workers, the less the state would have to spend. In addition, a number of measures favored by some aides, such as limiting the profits of insurers, remain undecided. "There is no final health plan," said Adam Mendelsohn, Schwarzenegger's communications director. "As has been the case from the start, all ideas are on the table and the final touches are being applied. The administration is not confirming the inclusion of any one piece."But several independent sources said Schwarzenegger had committed to the framework of the children's insurance portion. Administration officials have privately told people outside government that they intend to guarantee medical coverage for children of families earning up to 300% of the poverty level, or $60,000 a year for a family of four. Those families have 90% of the children without insurance. But the cutoff is not yet set in stone. Schwarzenegger's proposal goes further than one put forward last month by Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata (D-Oakland). His plan excluded illegal immigrants. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) incorporated children of undocumented residents into his plan, which also was announced in December."A lot of us are really looking to [Schwarzenegger] for leadership," said Wendy Lazarus, founder of the Children's Partnership, a nonpartisan child advocacy group based in Santa Monica and Washington, D.C. "Assuming he is going to tell us that he is going to cover all kids, this is great news for California's kids."About 90% of California's children already have insurance, either through their parents' coverage or through state Medi-Cal programs that help the impoverished. For years, advocates have been pressing lawmakers to finish the job, arguing that the electorate would be sympathetic to the plight of children."It's the low-hanging fruit of the health-care reform debate," said Dr. Bob Ross, president of the California Endowment, a private foundation in Los Angeles that was created to push for expanded access to health care."Kids are relatively cheaper to cover" than adults, he said. "From a public health standpoint, it's smarter to cover all children regardless of immigration. You just don't want unimmunized kids surfing around in the population." Such arguments have yet to win the day in Sacramento. Last year, Schwarzenegger backed a budget plan that would have helped fund local children's initiatives. Republican lawmakers blocked the proposal, because it would have included coverage for children of illegal immigrants. "We believe Californians do not want to reward illegal behavior," said Assembly Republican leader Mike Villines of Clovis. "There are so many here [legally] who are hurting and trying to make ends meet, we've got to focus on them first." The GOP is a minority in both houses of the Legislature, but most proposals involving state spending require a two-thirds vote, giving Republicans the power to stop them. However, it is possible that Schwarzenegger's plan could be molded to need a simple majority vote, like the last major piece of health-care legislation to become law. That measure, a 2003 mandate that most employers provide insurance for their workers, was repealed by voters the following year. Schwarzenegger has taken incremental steps to expand existing programs aimed at children's health, including the addition of $80 million to the state budget last year. Martha Escutia, a former Democratic state senator from Whittier who pressed for coverage of all children, including those of illegal immigrants, said Schwarzenegger told her in 2004 that he agreed with her."I said very bluntly that there was no way we could distinguish between children based on legal status," she recalled Wednesday. "And the governor agreed. He said, 'Children are children.' I remember him saying that very clearly."Sixty-nine percent of Californian children without health insurance in 2005 were eligible for existing programs but were not enrolled, according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. That was due to a variety of factors, including inadequate funds in some county programs to cover all those who qualified, and some of the bureaucratic requirements for entering state programs. Many parents, for instance, are required to prove that their earnings are low enough to qualify their children. There is disagreement about how many of the uninsured children are here illegally. A 2003 UCLA survey said that 33% were not citizens, but that does not mean that they were in the country illegally. Ross, of the California Endowment, said the number was below 15%. Most of the other states that already guarantee coverage for all children do it through state-paid programs for those from poor families, and by allowing better-off families to cover their children by paying a portion of the costs for the same programs. Typically, the more a family earns, the more it pays. Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Vermont all have such programs.Lazarus, of the Children's Partnership, said that although California would not be the first to cover all children, it has fewer employers providing insurance and more illegal immigrants than other states, making coverage more challenging."For California to step up at this time when states and Congress are really focused on health-care reform means that California could have a really significant leadership role across the nation," she said.
Social Security will be destroyed by Bush soon
Social Security for illegal aliens
By Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published January 4, 2007
An agreement the Bush administration reached with Mexico on Social Security benefits would allow illegal aliens granted amnesty in the future to claim credit for the time they worked illegally. The deal was reached in 2004 but never released publicly because it hasn't been submitted to Congress. The TREA Senior Citizens League, a Social Security advocacy group, recently obtained the document through a Freedom of Information Act, and said it confirms the group's worst fears. The document is a jumble of definitions and legal language, but a spokesman for the group said what's important is what's not in the text: It does nothing to prevent undocumented aliens who later get legal status from receiving benefits for the time they worked illegally. And that comes as the Social Security system's finances are about to be put under greater strain by the retirement of baby boomers. "If you open up the trust fund to people who have been working in the country illegally for many years, that bankruptcy date can only come sooner," spokesman Brad Phillips said. "People on the other side of this, people who have been arguing that of course illegal aliens can't get their hands on Social Security benefits, now can't make that argument easily anymore." But Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration, said the agreement doesn't change U.S. law. The law states that those who do not have authorization to work will not get benefits under a totalization agreement. "To get Social Security benefits, you do have to be legally in the United States. This agreement does not address in any way immigration, immigration laws or override current law," he said, adding that a 2004 law, the Social Security Protection Act, prevents illegal aliens from getting benefits. But the seniors group said the 2004 law also states that if those aliens later get legal status -- through an amnesty or some sort of legalization plan such as the one President Bush and the Senate tried to enact last year -- they would be able to collect the benefits based on their time as illegal workers. The deal has not taken effect because Mr. Bush has not signed it or submitted it to Congress. Once he does, Congress would have 60 days to vote against it or it automatically would become law. Congress has never defeated any of the 21 other totalization agreements the United States has reached. Most of those have been with European nations, with the financial effects known to be smaller. Some lawmakers say Mr. Bush has not submitted the agreement because it would get caught up in the debate over Social Security's poor fiscal health, which could doom the measure. Totalization agreements end double taxation, so workers have to pay only into one country's system, and allow a worker who didn't have enough credits in any one country to qualify for benefits to pool his or her credits. In the United States, it takes 10 years, or 40 quarters, to qualify. Mr. Lassiter said that's not to say Mexican workers who spent less time, such as the six quarters minimum needed to pool credits, would get benefits equal to someone who had worked his or her full life here. As for the document's status, he said the Social Security Administration hasn't submitted it to the State Department because officials are still waiting for the Mexican government to help reach a side agreement on how to treat illegal aliens. The United States sent a diplomatic note trying to clarify the situation but has not heard back from the Mexican government, he said. "At this point, there's no action that is planned or that will be taken until that process goes through," Mr. Lassiter said. Rafael Laveaga, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said the agreement has to be ratified by the Mexican Congress as well, but beyond that he had no details to offer. The issue has been contentious for several years. A 2003 report by the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative branch, said the agreement with Mexico was shoddy work that didn't investigate the reliability of Mexico's data, or take into account the millions of illegal aliens who would become eligible. The GAO also disputed the Social Security Administration's estimate that the agreement would cost $105 million a year for the first five years, saying the costs could be much higher given the uncertainty of who could benefit.
By Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published January 4, 2007
An agreement the Bush administration reached with Mexico on Social Security benefits would allow illegal aliens granted amnesty in the future to claim credit for the time they worked illegally. The deal was reached in 2004 but never released publicly because it hasn't been submitted to Congress. The TREA Senior Citizens League, a Social Security advocacy group, recently obtained the document through a Freedom of Information Act, and said it confirms the group's worst fears. The document is a jumble of definitions and legal language, but a spokesman for the group said what's important is what's not in the text: It does nothing to prevent undocumented aliens who later get legal status from receiving benefits for the time they worked illegally. And that comes as the Social Security system's finances are about to be put under greater strain by the retirement of baby boomers. "If you open up the trust fund to people who have been working in the country illegally for many years, that bankruptcy date can only come sooner," spokesman Brad Phillips said. "People on the other side of this, people who have been arguing that of course illegal aliens can't get their hands on Social Security benefits, now can't make that argument easily anymore." But Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration, said the agreement doesn't change U.S. law. The law states that those who do not have authorization to work will not get benefits under a totalization agreement. "To get Social Security benefits, you do have to be legally in the United States. This agreement does not address in any way immigration, immigration laws or override current law," he said, adding that a 2004 law, the Social Security Protection Act, prevents illegal aliens from getting benefits. But the seniors group said the 2004 law also states that if those aliens later get legal status -- through an amnesty or some sort of legalization plan such as the one President Bush and the Senate tried to enact last year -- they would be able to collect the benefits based on their time as illegal workers. The deal has not taken effect because Mr. Bush has not signed it or submitted it to Congress. Once he does, Congress would have 60 days to vote against it or it automatically would become law. Congress has never defeated any of the 21 other totalization agreements the United States has reached. Most of those have been with European nations, with the financial effects known to be smaller. Some lawmakers say Mr. Bush has not submitted the agreement because it would get caught up in the debate over Social Security's poor fiscal health, which could doom the measure. Totalization agreements end double taxation, so workers have to pay only into one country's system, and allow a worker who didn't have enough credits in any one country to qualify for benefits to pool his or her credits. In the United States, it takes 10 years, or 40 quarters, to qualify. Mr. Lassiter said that's not to say Mexican workers who spent less time, such as the six quarters minimum needed to pool credits, would get benefits equal to someone who had worked his or her full life here. As for the document's status, he said the Social Security Administration hasn't submitted it to the State Department because officials are still waiting for the Mexican government to help reach a side agreement on how to treat illegal aliens. The United States sent a diplomatic note trying to clarify the situation but has not heard back from the Mexican government, he said. "At this point, there's no action that is planned or that will be taken until that process goes through," Mr. Lassiter said. Rafael Laveaga, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said the agreement has to be ratified by the Mexican Congress as well, but beyond that he had no details to offer. The issue has been contentious for several years. A 2003 report by the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative branch, said the agreement with Mexico was shoddy work that didn't investigate the reliability of Mexico's data, or take into account the millions of illegal aliens who would become eligible. The GAO also disputed the Social Security Administration's estimate that the agreement would cost $105 million a year for the first five years, saying the costs could be much higher given the uncertainty of who could benefit.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
He came back for more
Undocumented worker charged with sex assault
Repeat enhancer added in case
By Nathan Phelps nphelps@greenbaypressgazette.com January 3, 2007
A 25-year-old man who allegedly re-entered the United States after being deported was charged Tuesday with allegedly sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl last year in Allouez.
Paulo Sheispan-Landero was then released from the Brown County Jail Tuesday night after posting a $5,000 cash bond.
Sheispan-Landero made his initial appearance Tuesday afternoon in Brown County Circuit Court. He faces a charge of first-degree sexual assault of a child younger than 13 without great bodily harm.
A repeat enhancer was added to that charge after a conviction of two counts of misdemeanor battery and one count of obstructing an officer in 2004, according to the criminal complaint.
The complaint alleges that on at least three occasions between April and December, Sheispan-Landero allegedly assaulted the 12-year-old. The victim related three of the alleged incidents to investigators.
When asked about the allegations, Sheispan-Landero said he had been drinking heavily and could not recall what happened, according to the complaint.
He also told investigators he did not think of the victim in a sexual way.
Sheispan-Landero — who appeared without a lawyer — is scheduled to make an appearance in court Friday. He is not to have contact with the alleged victim or her family members.
Court Commissioner Lawrence Gazeley said he thought there should be an immigration hold in the case and that Sheispan-Landero should be referred to federal prosecutors on the allegation he returned to the United States illegally after being deported after an earlier run-in with police.
"Those are all matters that are beyond our control here, but I think those are issues that should be addressed," he said.
In the criminal complaint, Sheispan-Landero's girlfriend says he was deported and returned to the U.S. about a week later. An interpreter told the court Sheispan-Landero is from Mexico.
If convicted on the sexual assault charge and enhancer, Sheispan-Landero could face up to 62 years in prison.
Repeat enhancer added in case
By Nathan Phelps nphelps@greenbaypressgazette.com January 3, 2007
A 25-year-old man who allegedly re-entered the United States after being deported was charged Tuesday with allegedly sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl last year in Allouez.
Paulo Sheispan-Landero was then released from the Brown County Jail Tuesday night after posting a $5,000 cash bond.
Sheispan-Landero made his initial appearance Tuesday afternoon in Brown County Circuit Court. He faces a charge of first-degree sexual assault of a child younger than 13 without great bodily harm.
A repeat enhancer was added to that charge after a conviction of two counts of misdemeanor battery and one count of obstructing an officer in 2004, according to the criminal complaint.
The complaint alleges that on at least three occasions between April and December, Sheispan-Landero allegedly assaulted the 12-year-old. The victim related three of the alleged incidents to investigators.
When asked about the allegations, Sheispan-Landero said he had been drinking heavily and could not recall what happened, according to the complaint.
He also told investigators he did not think of the victim in a sexual way.
Sheispan-Landero — who appeared without a lawyer — is scheduled to make an appearance in court Friday. He is not to have contact with the alleged victim or her family members.
Court Commissioner Lawrence Gazeley said he thought there should be an immigration hold in the case and that Sheispan-Landero should be referred to federal prosecutors on the allegation he returned to the United States illegally after being deported after an earlier run-in with police.
"Those are all matters that are beyond our control here, but I think those are issues that should be addressed," he said.
In the criminal complaint, Sheispan-Landero's girlfriend says he was deported and returned to the U.S. about a week later. An interpreter told the court Sheispan-Landero is from Mexico.
If convicted on the sexual assault charge and enhancer, Sheispan-Landero could face up to 62 years in prison.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Another senseless death of an American
Sunday, December 31, 2006
INVASION USA
Illegals kill deputy in New Year's Eve hit and run. Immigration puts hold on aliens after officer's car flips off road .
Posted: December 31, 20069:47 p.m. Eastern
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com-->© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Deputy Loren Lilly
A sheriff's deputy in Georgia was killed on his way to work this morning in a traffic crash with two suspected illegal aliens.
Deputy Loren Lilly, who had been with the Cobb County Sheriff's Office for 18 years, was pronounced dead at the scene after his Honda Accord flipped several times after being struck by a Ford Taurus.
"No one ever likes to roll up on an accident with anyone deceased on scene, or serious injuries," Marietta police officer Casey Camp told WXIA-TV. "Obviously, being in law enforcement, none of us wants to roll up and see one of our fellow officers or deputies on the scene as well."
Witnesses say the driver and passenger in the Taurus ran from the scene. Police later arrested the two, 27-year-old Joel Perea, and 23-year-old Maurilio Herrera.
Perea is charged with felony vehicular homicide, hit and run, failure to maintain a lane, and driving without a license. Herrera is charged with false report of a crime.
They're being held at the Cobb County Jail, and police say federal immigration officials have placed a hold on both.
(Story continues below)
WND has reported on the growing list of illegal immigrants who have not only ignored U.S. immigration laws, but state laws against drinking and driving as well, killing innocents on the highways in the process, including:
Carlos Prieto
Carlos Prieto: Suspected illegal alien from Mexico was held in the Salt Lake County jail after running a red light and broadsiding a family of six, killing three, on Christmas Eve 2006. The charging documents say his blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit. The Ceran family, active in local theater and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were returning home after attending a performance of Dicken's "The Christmas Carol," which featured several family me
INVASION USA
Illegals kill deputy in New Year's Eve hit and run. Immigration puts hold on aliens after officer's car flips off road .
Posted: December 31, 20069:47 p.m. Eastern
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com-->© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Deputy Loren Lilly
A sheriff's deputy in Georgia was killed on his way to work this morning in a traffic crash with two suspected illegal aliens.
Deputy Loren Lilly, who had been with the Cobb County Sheriff's Office for 18 years, was pronounced dead at the scene after his Honda Accord flipped several times after being struck by a Ford Taurus.
"No one ever likes to roll up on an accident with anyone deceased on scene, or serious injuries," Marietta police officer Casey Camp told WXIA-TV. "Obviously, being in law enforcement, none of us wants to roll up and see one of our fellow officers or deputies on the scene as well."
Witnesses say the driver and passenger in the Taurus ran from the scene. Police later arrested the two, 27-year-old Joel Perea, and 23-year-old Maurilio Herrera.
Perea is charged with felony vehicular homicide, hit and run, failure to maintain a lane, and driving without a license. Herrera is charged with false report of a crime.
They're being held at the Cobb County Jail, and police say federal immigration officials have placed a hold on both.
(Story continues below)
WND has reported on the growing list of illegal immigrants who have not only ignored U.S. immigration laws, but state laws against drinking and driving as well, killing innocents on the highways in the process, including:
Carlos Prieto
Carlos Prieto: Suspected illegal alien from Mexico was held in the Salt Lake County jail after running a red light and broadsiding a family of six, killing three, on Christmas Eve 2006. The charging documents say his blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit. The Ceran family, active in local theater and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were returning home after attending a performance of Dicken's "The Christmas Carol," which featured several family me
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