Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Ohio county has seen explosion in illegal alien crime
(Columbus, Ohio - December 27, 2010)
Examiner.com
(Columbus, Ohio - December 27, 2010)
Examiner.com
In 2002, the number of illegal aliens transferred from the Franklin County Jail into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement was only 17, last year that number had increased to 799. Those transferred were arrested for other crimes and discovered to be in the country illegally.
What follows is the number of illegal alien transfers over the last eight years (Source: Franklin County Jail records):
2002: 17
2003: 19
2004: 15
2005: 27
2006: 39
2007: 48
2008: 628
2009: 799
What was once a problem largely confined to the American Southwest has spread across the entire nation, and though Franklin County, Ohio is 1,500 miles from the Mexican border, they are also being subjected to the perils of illegal immigration.
It should also be noted that according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Franklin County has an unemployment rate of 8.4 percent. One has to wonder what that number would be without the influx of illegal aliens into the county.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Deported illegal immigrants return repeatedly
(Columbus, Ohio - December 27, 2010)
(Columbus, Ohio - December 27, 2010)
Federal agents took an illegal immigrant to Grant Medical Center in October 2009 to collect proof of his ties to a Mexican-based drug ring.
During his two-day hospital stay, Jose Aranda-Mora supplied the needed evidence - 92 balloons of heroin that he had swallowed before a traffic stop in Richland County.
Three months earlier, immigration agents had deported Mora to his homeland of Mexico. But the free ride home served as no deterrent. Since 2000, Mora has been deported four times, only to return time and again - most recently to Ohio.
A Dispatch investigation revealed that it is common for deported immigrants to return to the United States despite the threat of felony charges...
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