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Crunching the numbers on homicidal crimes of illegals
My Columbia Basin
February 25, 2019
Tags:
Mexico, crime, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

SALEM, Oregon – Based on statistics from the Oregon Department of Corrections and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there are 909 inmates in the prison system that have ICE detainers. Of those, 131 have committed homicidal crimes like murder, manslaughter, and attempted murder.

David Olen Cross, who researches and reports on immigration issues, says his analysis shows that nine of those cases were tried in Umatilla County. That makes it the fourth highest in the state for homicidal cases involving illegal aliens.

The top three counties dwarf Umatilla County’s single-digit...

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Umapine murder defendant committed vehicular homicide in 1999
Phil Wright
East Oregonian
February 22, 2019
Tags:
crime, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

Antonio Vasquez-Vargas, of Walla Walla, faces a murder charge for the shooting death of Renee Luiz-Antonio in late 2018 in Umapine.

If Vasquez-Vargas is found guilty, Luiz-Antonio would be the second man he killed.

The East Oregonian verified Vasquez-Vargas killed 73-year-old Floyd Murphy almost 20 years ago in a car wreck in Walla Walla.

The EO looked into the matter after receiving an email from Murphy’s grandson, Matthew Murphy, and an email from a friend of Matthew Murphy that contained clippings of Walla Walla Union Bulletin news stories about the fatal crash and...

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Washington Post: Farm Industry Is Being Forced to Replace Illegal Workforce
Neil Munro
Breitbart
February 22, 2019
Tags:
jobs, E-Verify, illegal immigration, agriculture, cost, illegal aliens

Excerpts:

The paper [Washington Post] reported February 21:

... With the election of Trump, employers said they knew that finding undocumented workers would probably become even more difficult. One Washington state farmer said he watched as his entire pool of undocumented workers crossed the border into Canada after Trump’s inauguration, fearing deportation. Another farmer, failing to find domestic workers in 2017, formed a partnership with a local prison, hiring detainees to work the fields as part of a voluntary work program.

Farm companies are importing more...

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Migrant Caravans Prove a Successful Formula for Mass Illegal Entry to US
Charlotte Cuthbertson
Epoch Times
February 20, 2019
Tags:
border, enforcement, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, Congress, national security

Portillo, 38, said she joined the migrant caravan after hearing about it on social media. She brought her 6-year-old daughter from Honduras.

"I was coming with the original caravan that was going to Tijuana, but the first people that arrived in Tijuana were causing trouble, so I decided to sidetrack and not continue on with the group," Portillo said on Feb. 15, through a translator.  "When this other caravan started coming over here, I joined it."   She arrived in Piedras Negras, Mexico, on Feb. 4 with 1,800 other mostly Central American migrants, and has been staying in an old...
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Oregon Department of Corrections: Foreign National Homicide Report January 2019
Data Compiled By David Olen Cross
February 20, 2019
Tags:
border, crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, ORS 181A.820

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on January 1, 2019 that 131 of the 909 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were incarcerated for homicidal crimes (various degrees of murder and manslaughter) —14.41 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 numbers...

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Mexico's dispersal of latest caravan simply frees migrants to cross the U.S. border less visibly
Todd Bensman
Center for Immigration Studies
February 18, 2019
Tags:
border, Mexico, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, national security

A CIS visit to the improvised caravan migrant shelter at Piedras Negras, Mexico

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico, February 18, 2019 — Inside the sprawling ceramics factory where the Mexican government has detained the latest migrant caravan, a process is underway virtually guaranteeing that almost everyone here will soon be granted exactly what they came for: an opportunity to breach the U.S. southern border, exploit the American catch-and-release loophole by claiming asylum, and add themselves to the millions already living in the country illegally.

This caravan of some 2,000...

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OFIR leader speaks to Republican Women
Starla Pointer
News Register
February 18, 2019
Tags:
border, immigration, legal immigration, chain migration, illegal aliens, Congress

“Every nation has the right to set immigration policy,” Jim Ludwick declared as he began an address to the Yamhill County Republican Women’s Club last week. “Every citizen has the right to advocate” for what he considers the right policy.

Those aren’t just words to Ludwick, president of the state’s largest immigration reform group.

The McMinnville resident believes too many immigrants are coming into the U.S., and far too many of those are doing so illegally. The 2010 Census showed that U.S. population grew by 27 million in 10 years. That much growth, he said, “is...

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U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons: Criminal Alien Report January 2019
By David Olen Cross
February 16, 2019
Tags:
border, crime, enforcement, ICE, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, Oregon

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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Oregon Department of Corrections: Mexican National Crime Report January 2019
Data Compiled By David Olen Cross
February 13, 2019
Tags:
border, Mexico, crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on January 1, 2019 that 726 of the 909 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were Mexican nationals — 79.87 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 alien...

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ODOC counts illegal alien inmates
My Columbia Basin
February 13, 2019
Tags:
crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, Oregon, Oregon Legislature

SALEM, Oregon – The Oregon Department of Corrections reports that of Oregon’s 14,780 prison inmates, 909 of them are illegal aliens identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and have ICE detainers placed on them. The undocumented aliens in prison constitute 6.15 percent of the total prison population.

Illegal aliens convicted in Umatilla County number 25, or 2.75 percent. That’s seventh highest among Oregon counties. Marion County has the highest number – 222 inmates accounting for 24.42 percent. It’s followed by Washington (192), Multnomah (172), Clackamas (76), Lane...

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