Jan. 3, 2007
Thousands of Illegal Aliens Preying on Children
By Jim Kouri
Special to Huntington News Network
Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security had announced that
arrests during the first two years of Operation Predator, an initiative
aimed at foreign nationals who prey on children, have exceeded 6,000.
The majority of the arrests under Operation Predator -- roughly 85% --
have
involved foreign nationals in this country whose child sex crimes make
them
eligible for removal from the United States. By matching immigration
databases with state Megan’s law directories, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents have arrested more than 1,800 registered sex
offenders.
With federal, state and local law enforcement working together, the
initiative has resulted in 6,085 child predator arrests throughout the
country -- an average of roughly 250 arrests per month and eight
arrests per
day. While arrests have been made in every state, most have occurred in
these states: Arizona (207), California (1,578), Florida (255),
Illinois
(282), Michigan (153), Minnesota (190), New Jersey (423), New York
(367),
Oregon (148) and Texas (545).
"We are seeing an alarming number of illegal aliens with criminal
records
for everything from homicides to rapes of children as young as three
years
of age," states former NYPD Detective Sid Francis, who investigated sex
crimes in New York City.
Research in the area of child predators is disturbing and, at times,
out and
out shocking. Francis studied arrest reports involving criminal aliens
who
committed child sex crimes including Julio Cesar Rabago-Magana, a
Mexican
man who sexually assaulted a four-year-old child in a basement in
Minneapolis, Minn. Rabago-Magana pleaded guilty to first-degree
criminal
sexual conduct. After serving his criminal sentence, he was arrested by
Immigration agents at his St. Paul home and deported six days later.
"The illegal immigration problem is allowing hundreds of thousands of
criminal aliens to invade our nation and kill, maim, rob and abuse our
citizens, " warns the one of the vice presidents of the 14,000-member
National Association of Chiefs of Police. Research revealed that in one
9-month period the federal government arrested over 100,000 criminal
aliens.
These arrests do not include arrests made by state and local law
enforcement.
Francis adds that our political leaders and the mainstream news media
practically ignore this issue and pro-illegal immigration advocates
resort
to name-calling to silence anyone who attempts to sound the alarm.
"If anything, the President and the two houses of Congress are actually
helping these fiends enter the US to assault citizens and their
children.
They appear more intent on locking up border patrol agents that
stopping
illegal alien thugs."