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Oregon’s Clackamas County Fourth in Foreign National Crime in February 2019
David Olen Cross
2019-04-01
Tags:
border, crime, enforcement, ICE, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, ORS 181A.820

On February 1, 2019 Oregon’s Clackamas County had 78 of the 913 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) incarcerated in the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) prison system; the county was fourth in foreign national crime in the state with 8.54 percent of the criminal aliens in DOC prisons.

The following table reveals how Clackamas County residents were harmed or victimized by the 78 criminal aliens incarcerated on February 1st in the DOC prison system with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ICE detainers.
 

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Zogby Poll Shows Oregon Voters Oppose Giving Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens, says FAIR
Yahoo FINANCE
2019-03-28
Tags:
illegal immigration, driver's license, illegal aliens, Oregon, ballot measure 88, Oregon legislation

SALEM, Ore.,  /PRNewswire/ -- A new statewide poll of likely voters finds that Oregonians still overwhelmingly oppose granting driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Voters also thoroughly reject efforts by the State Legislature to override the will of two-thirds - nearly a million Oregon voters - who prevented an earlier effort to grant licenses to illegal aliens, from going into effect. The Equal Access to the Roads Act of 2019 (HB 2015) would once again allow people living in the country illegally, to gain access to Oregon driver's licenses and official state photo identification.

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Oregon Department of Corrections: Foreign National Sex Crime Report February 2019
Data Compiled By David Olen Cross
2019-03-27
Tags:
border, crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on February 1, 2019 that 458 of 913 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were incarcerated for three types of sex crimes — sex abuse, rape and sodomy — 50.16 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The number of criminal aliens incarcerated for sex crimes in DOC prisons does not necessarily equal the number of Oregon residents victimized by alien sex abuse, rape and sodomy.).

Using DOC U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detainer numbers,...

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Oregon Department of Corrections: Foreign National Homicide Report February 2019
Data Compiled By David Olen Cross
2019-03-24
Tags:
border, crime, enforcement, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, ORS 181A.820, Oregon legislation

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on February 1, 2019 that 132 of the 913 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were incarcerated for homicidal crimes (various degrees of murder and manslaughter) —14.46 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The number of criminal aliens incarcerated for homicidal crimes in DOC prisons does not necessarily equal the number of Oregon residents killed by alien homicidal violence).

Using DOC U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detainer...

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Oregon Department of Corrections: Mexican National Crime Report February 2019
Data Compiled By David Olen Cross
2019-03-21
Tags:
border, Mexico, crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on February 1, 2019 that 730 of the 913 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were Mexican nationals — 79.96 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The number of Mexican nationals incarcerated in DOC prisons does not necessarily equal the number of Oregon residents victimized by this specific group of criminal aliens).

Using DOC U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the total number criminal...

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Supreme Court rules against immigrants in detention case
Jessica Gresko
The Seattle Times
2019-03-19
Tags:
crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a group of immigrants in a case about the government’s power to detain them after they’ve committed crimes but finished their sentences.

The issue in the case before the justices had to do with the detention of noncitizens who have committed a broad range of crimes that make them deportable. Immigration law tells the government it must arrest those people when they are released from custody and then hold them while an immigration court decides whether they should be deported.

But those affected by the law aren’t...

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Southern Poverty Law Center fires co-founder Morris Dees
Melissa Brown and Brian Edwards
Montgomery Advertiser
2019-03-14
Tags:
crime, fraud, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, Oregon, ORS 181A.820, OFIR, SPLC

The Southern Poverty Law Center fired Morris Dees, the nonprofit civil rights organization's co-founder and former chief litigator.

SPLC President Richard Cohen said in a statement Dees' dismissal over his misconduct was effective on Wednesday, March 13....

"As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world," Cohen said in the emailed statement. "When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the...

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Oregon Department of Corrections: Criminal Alien Report February 2019
Data Compiled By David Olen Cross
2019-03-13
Tags:
crime, enforcement, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, taxes, ORS 181A.820, Oregon legislation

The Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) February 1, 2019 Inmate Population Profile indicated there were 14,756 inmates incarcerated in the DOC’s 14 prisons.

Data obtained from the DOC indicated that on February 1st there were 913 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) incarcerated in the state’s prison system; criminal aliens were 6.19 percent of the total prison population.

Some background information, all the criminal aliens incarcerated in the DOC prison system were identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and have ICE detainers placed on them.

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U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons: Criminal Alien Report February 2019
By David Olen Cross
2019-03-11
Tags:
border, crime, enforcement, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, Oregon legislation

The United States having a significant foreign national population residing within the nations boundaries, be they legally or illegally present in the country, unfortunately includes those who commit crimes.

The extent and impact of foreign national crime on the U.S. citizens and residents of this country is clearly revealed by a simple search on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmates statistics website under the heading of inmate citizenship.

Here are the countries of origin, moreover, the number and percentage of those countries citizens recently incarcerated in...

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Democrats Winning 90% Congressional Districts with Large Foreign-Born Populations
John Binder
Breitbart
2019-03-07
Tags:
election, voter registration, legal immigration, amnesty, government, voter registration, Democrat

Mass legal immigration is driving Democrats towards full electoral dominance, with left-wing politicians winning nearly 90 percent of congressional districts with larger than average foreign-born populations, analysis finds.

The Atlantic senior editor Ronald Brownstein analyzed Census Bureau statistics for the 2018 midterm elections, finding that the country’s admission of more than a million legal immigrants every year is set to hand over electoral dominance to House and Senate Democrats.

Among Brownstein’s findings is that nearly 90 percent of House congressional...

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