What We Examined and Why

We begin our analysis of the proposed executive actions by looking at the proposal to grant relief to the population of deported aliens who, in the words of the MPI brief, were “[c]onvicted exclusively of traffic crimes”. MPI refers to this and other mechanisms involving forgiveness of offenses as “[r]e-focusing and strictly adhering to enforcement priorities”.

We chose to focus on this proposed method of achieving executive action proponents suggest would benefit a relatively benign segment of the illegal alien population in the United States. We wanted to test the validity of that tacit assumption. Our examination encompassed 10 years of removals data, from 2004 through 2013.

What Are Traffic Crimes?

Use of the phrase “traffic crimes” is imprecise. This is an important point to make in the context of the removals datasets from which the key figures were initially derived and that led to the estimates of population size of affected aliens who would receive the benefits of deferred action. The authors of the MPI executive action brief did not explain what they intended by it.

We interpret traffic crimes to mean crimes reasonably arising from, and on, the roadways. As such, in drawing from the 10 years of data, we examined the population of removed aliens who were convicted of the following offenses:

Carjacking

Driving under the influence of drugs

Driving under the influence of alcohol

Hit-and-run

Vehicular homicide/manslaughter

Transporting alcohol

A consolidated category of stolen vehicle/vehicle theft offenses

Unauthorized use of a vehicle/joyriding

Traffic offenses such as driving without a license, speeding, etc.

This latter category brings up an important point that must be made: One must not confuse traffic crimes with traffic offenses. The latter is a subset of traffic crimes, and reflects conduct that often (but not always) is dealt with by a summons (a “ticket” in everyday language) as opposed to a physical arrest by the police.

A few additional notes are in order:

The data almost certainly fail to accurately depict the universe of traffic-related crimes for the removed aliens due to the way they are captured in the database, or the way the offenses are charged by police.

For example, an individual placed into a diversion program or granted probation or conditional release after being arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) who later violates the program, probation order, or conditional release, may be shown in the database as a violator of the program, order, or release rather than as a transparently traffic-related criminal.

Similarly, an individual may be arrested and charged with DUI or hit-and-run, but fail to appear for court. When re-apprehended, it may be the failure to appear for court for which he is finally convicted, although the initial arrest was traffic-related.

Likewise, the true extent of vehicular assaults may be underrepresented in the dataset by having been categorized simply as “assault” or “aggravated assault”, and therefore not amenable to extrapolation as traffic-related for purposes of our analysis.

Even possession of counterfeit documents might have a traffic origin if the document in question is a forged driver’s license or vehicle registration in the possession of an alien pulled over by police.

In conducting our research, we included stealing and theft of vehicles as traffic-related. Some may argue these are not traffic-related crimes, but we disagree. An individual stopped on the interstate in a stolen car or truck has committed a traffic offense. Conversely, however, we did not include robbery or larceny from vehicles or similar offenses in the dataset even though it is possible that some of these crimes arose from traffic stops.

Because of the structure of the uniform crime codes described below, “unauthorized use of a vehicle/joyriding” is shown in the data as a category distinct from vehicle theft, and so we, too, have counted it separately.

Finally, it is important to understand that the categories of crimes shown in the alien removals database are derived from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook (UCR),5 which is the standard used by most police agencies throughout the United States. This provides for a certain level of statistical uniformity despite the bewildering shades of difference among state criminal statutes, and between states and the federal government, whose agencies also contribute to the UCR.

However within the subset of data relating to aliens whose most serious crime is labeled a traffic offense, we believe it is likely that an unknown number of those crimes were more serious than the label would denote. An ICE or Border Patrol agent filling in a data screen may find it easier and less time consuming when opening up a scroll-down window to simply tag the data generically rather than search an extremely long list to find an equivalent (but more serious) crime descriptor based on UCR codes. This is particularly true given that, however these secondary fields are filled in, they will not change the way the individual is charged for purposes of removability, which is, after all, primary in the minds of the federal agents.

Executive Action to Benefit Alien Traffic Offenders

By Dan Cadman, Jessica Vaughan September 2014


Dan Cadman is a fellow and Jessica Vaughan is director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies.
[President Obama]

Since almost the beginning, the Obama administration has distinguished itself from previous administrations by the number and expansive nature of the executive actions it has taken on immigration matters. The goal has been to undermine the enforcement of immigration law and limit the reach of ICE in order to protect a larger and larger number of illegal aliens from deportation.

These actions typically are expressed as guidelines that sound benign, but which in practice also prevent the deportation of illegal aliens involved in crime, or whose behavior has endangered the public. One example is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This program was sold to the public as deportation relief for young illegal aliens brought here by their parents, through no fault of their own, who have been in school, and have stayed out of trouble. While no doubt some DACA beneficiaries meet that description, the program operates in such a way as to also benefit less meritorious illegal aliens, including those who have committed crimes or other infractions, are involved in gangs, or who have caused other problems in their community.1 Additionally, in practice, a substantial number of the DACA recipients are not — and have not been — in school, belying the argument that the program was designed to permit them to obtain secondary education, college degrees, and become “productive members of society”.

Many of these executive actions have been created out of whole cloth as a way of circumventing the legislative prerogatives of our Congress, thus rendering them both constitutionally and legally suspect. In our view, they have also harmed the national interest and public safety.

The administration apparently remains committed to using executive action to obtain what it has been unable to achieve in the constitutionally prescribed manner, although the president has acknowledged the public anger and frustration over his handling over the recent border crisis involving the surge of tens of thousands of aliens, including women and children, in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. However his acknowledgement has extended only to stating that he will wait until after the midterm elections before he takes further executive action — a decision that, however it is couched, reflects a disturbingly cold political calculation rather than one aimed to make peace with the American people and cease his overreach.

There has been a great deal of public speculation as to the exact form any new executive action will take. One prominent organization with close ties to the Obama administration, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), has produced an outline of the possible parameters of new executive actions entitled “Executive Action for Unauthorized Immigrants: Estimates of the Populations that Could Receive Relief”.2 This report distinguishes various methods by which the administration could extend, even further than it has already, its efforts to grant the effective equivalent of amnesty to aliens. Each of the methods carves out different portions (or aggregates) of the population of illegal aliens of the United States as potential recipients of executive action “relief” from deportation.

Issuance of the report was also accompanied by a public “webinar”, during which an electronic slide show presentation was made.3 The slide show summarized the methods the administration might use to achieve additional “relief” from deportation.

Our purpose in this report is to go beyond estimates of the number of illegal aliens who might benefit from executive action to explore the public safety ramifications of shielding these categories of aliens from deportation. We set out to answer the question: What are the characteristics of aliens who would likely be spared deportation as a result of the imposition of broader prosecutorial discretion guidelines? To accomplish this, we used a database of all ICE deportation cases from federal fiscal year 2004 through federal fiscal year 2013 (which we believe to identical to the dataset used by MPI analysts).4

We begin with an examination of the proposal to exempt from enforcement action those illegal aliens who have been “convicted exclusively of traffic crimes”. The presumed rationale for this proposal is that those illegal aliens whose only criminal conviction is for a “traffic crime” are not a threat to the public and therefore should not be subject to deportation. The implication is that ICE agents who seek the removal of illegal alien traffic offenders are overzealous and wasting scarce enforcement resources on cases that should be a low priority. According to MPI, which did not supply a definitive definition of “traffic offender”, applying executive action to this group of aliens for the years 2003 through 2013, would have protected 206,000 illegal aliens from removal. Our analysis (which does define traffic offenses), found that executive action would have protected 258,689 illegal aliens convicted of traffic offences from 2004 to 2013.

Key Findings:

An Obama administration executive action that protects from deportation those aliens convicted exclusively of traffic offenses potentially would shield thousands of dangerous drivers from deportation every year, including many convicted of drunk or drugged driving, judging by actual deportation records.

Traffic crimes include a wide spectrum of offenses and crimes, ranging from drunk or drugged driving, to vehicular homicide, to joyriding, to improper lane changes, to driving without a license or insurance. Many of these are serious, involve fatalities, and put the public at risk. Proponents of such an executive action should be pressed to define exactly what offenses are meant or intended by the phrase.

More than half (57 percent) of all aliens deported from 2004-2013 whose most serious conviction was a traffic-related crime were convicted of drunk or drugged driving.

Other traffic-related criminal convictions of deported aliens included: carjacking, hit-and-run, vehicular homicide/manslaughter, transporting alcohol, vehicle theft, joyriding, and license offenses.

The majority of all traffic-related crimes in the 10-year dataset were committed by adult male aliens (from late teens to mid 30s in age) who entered the country without inspection across the border, and therefore were almost certainly driving without a license and uninsured.

Most aliens deported after convictions for traffic crimes had other aggravating circumstances that weighed on their case. More than one-half (55 percent) of aliens deported from 2004-2013 after traffic-related convictions had been deported from the country at least once before. In 2013, 70 percent of traffic offenders were prior-deportees.

An even larger percentage (60 percent) of aliens convicted of lesser traffic offenses (a subset of traffic crimes) were prior deportees.

Looks will fade. Bodies will sag.
A good woman will last a lifetime.

How many fingers would you give up before screaming out your PIN?

It's good you have what you have, SS.

My Dr wants me to go have heart work-ups done. He says, people are living a lot longer these days. I thought to myself,"I've had the type of life I've had for a reason.Why, would I want to extend it to the point of not being able to care for myself?"

I almost told him to forget it, I'd take my chances. But, I dissed him in the ER a couple months ago, had to eat crow, and will now do as he suggests. He's a good guy.

I will always wish the best for you, amigo.

Anything happens, I will always remember you.

I do Pay-Pal on most internet purchases. Silver coins, I will take my chances with Mexico plata by the oz. And, American coins. Just cuz they stamped, Troy oz., don't means dey iz. I've just been dealing in silver long enough to tell what's real and what's chapa.

A young NY lawyer goes on a hunting trip down in Texas. He lines up on a large buck and shoots and the injured animal runs off the property and onto the adjacent ranch.

The lawyer doesnt hesitate in climbing the fence to recover his prize. Just about then a very old cowboy shows up in a pickup and identifies himself as the offended land owner. He quickly accuses the NY lawyer of trespassing and tells him he needs to get off the property immediately.

The NY lawyer explains what happened but the elderly ranch owner doesnt want to hear it and insists that the lawyer leave immediately and leave the trophy buck where it lies and that it belongs to him now.

The lawyer begins to inform this old Texas podunct cowboy/rancher WHO he is and WHAT he is and threatens a huge lawsuit if the rancher does not allow him his trophy.

The old rancher then informs the lawyer that stuff like this is not settled in the courts down here in Texas. Here there is a 3 kick rule. Each man gets 3 kicks on the other and they exchange kicks 3 at a time until one or the other gives in.

Well, the young NY lawyer sizes up the old worn out cowboy and decides that he will take him up on the Texas form of justice. He even allows the old man the first 3 kicks.

The old cowboy plants the first boot square in the groin of the young lawyer which drops him to his knees in pain. The second boot catches the lawyer on the *** and knocks him face first into a cow patty. The third kick lands square on the jaw of the lawyer and spins him over.

Shaken and in pain the lawyer slowly gets up rubbing his bloody jaw. In pain, but able to function he says OK old man its now MY turn.

To which the old cowboy replies.... Nope I give in, you can have the damned deer.

That would take away from all the surprise of flashing.

Welcome.

If he's convicted, he should be sentenced to ten years in a nursing home.

No BS. Californicate voted English as it's official IDIOma.

Could he be another member of the Nation of Islam?

"Man says he represents ISIS, threatens co-worker”
By Michael Purdy, KRMG News,

September 28, 2014
(thanks to Armaros)


Oklahoma City, Okla. —It appears to be a strange coincidence.



On the same day (Friday) Moore police announced
the deadly attack inside Vaughan Foods, Oklahoma City officers arrested a fired nursing home employee for threatening to cut off a co-worker’s head.

Police tell Newsok.com, Jacob Murithi had been working at the Bellevue Nursing Home in northwest Oklahoma City.



He’s said to have threatened the unidentified co-worker on Sept. 19.


She told officers Murithi identified himself as a Muslim. He
then mentioned he “represented ISIS and that ISIS kills Christians.”
He’s currently at the Oklahoma County Jail on a terrorism count. Police say his bail is set at $1 million.

Woman Beats Men in Rap Battle, So They Rape, Set Her on Fire and Shoot Her



3 men arrested woman beat rap battle



Three men have reportedly been arrested after a brutal crime committed against a woman who beat them in a hip hop rap battle at a house party.

Joey Betrail Garron, 28, Robert Carl Johnson, 23, and Ketorie Glover, 23 all of Columbus, Georgia could not handle losing to a woman in a hip hop rap battle, so they allegedly raped, beat, shot and doused the woman with gasoline setting her on fire before leaving her for dead.

Columbus police reportedly responded to a vacant parking lot where a person was screaming out for help. They found a woman suffering from several gunshot wounds in the vacant lot.

The woman had allegedly engaged in a hip hop rap battle contest outside of a house party on Garden Drive where she was pitted against the alleged men opponents who she apparently defeated and set off anguish.

Apparently the rap battle got heated when one man drew a weapon – a handgun – and forced the 36 year-old victim into her own vehicle as two other men joined.

The woman was taken to the vacant lot where she was found by police at 988 Farr Road, the place where she was allegedly sexually assaulted by all three men, doused with gasoline, set on fire, shot several times and left for dead.

Fortunately, the woman survived her ordeal after being treated for injuries at a local hospital.

The three men have all been arrested and face felony charges of kidnapping, rape, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual battery, aggravated sodomy, arson in the first degree, possession of a firearm, among other charges.

As in circle or beef?

(Actually there is another choice. Odd that you never noticed the "friendship" option before.

You probably don't know this, but most of your posts come off as defensive and antagonistic. I'm sure you don't mean to be that way so I thought you'd like to know.)

Well put, Ms Ruth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-nkLMWDUt4

While the liberal media is willing to report that a woman was gruesomely decapitated in what President Obama would likely call another case of “workplace violence,” so many news outlets have glossed-over the details of the motive for the beheading: the assailant was Muslim who sought to wreak vengeance upon supposed infidels.


However, that is not the only detail the propagandists in the leftstream media have glossed-over; the man who beheaded Colleen Hufford, Alton Alexander Nolen, soon moved on to try and decapitate another woman, Traci Johnson, and was only stopped by the grace of God…

… and a well-placed bullet from a concealed firearm user.



After gruesomely beheading his former coworker, Nolen moved onto Johnson and stabbed her several times as he had done to Hufford. As he was about to behead Johnson, Mark Vaughn, an Oklahoma County reserve deputy and reportedly an employee at Vaughn Foods where the jihad occurred, pulled his concealed weapon and shot Nolen before he could finish what he had started.

Every day in America, people are saved by firearms. The lunatics of the world prey on the defenseless and as the unarmed cower on the phone with 911, hoping, praying that a “good guy with a gun” gets there in time to save their lives, the simple fact is that so many across America die needlessly from arbitrary restrictions placed on the law-abiding citizenry while criminals who, as the term would suggest, disregard laws that are designed to keep them from arming themselves.

Guns save lives. We, as a society, trust a person with a gun as long as they have a badge on. But so many are uncomfortable with good citizens carrying weapons. Why? Concealed carriers are bound by the same laws. Whether officer or civilian, it’s illegal to shoot someone without cause. Whether officer or civilian, it’s illegal to brandish a weapon in the furtherance of a crime. Whether officer or civilian, both must undergo training. Whether officer or civilian, both must be free from felony convictions.

So, as news develops surrounding this beheading in Oklahoma, remember to investigate what the mainstream media prefers to omit: Traci Johnson and, perhaps, many others are alive today because a “good guy with a gun” was there to stop evil.

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/27/good-guy-with-a-gun-stops-second-beheading-leftstream-media-forgets-to-mention-that/

20.00 an ounce is a good price.

The exchange rate here in Acuna today is 12.6 pesos per dollar.

That comes out to just about $15.00 each coin.

http://coinmill.com/MXN_USD.html#MXN=188.9

Even cooler if she has this in those spandex.

Many folks jut blew Barry off when he said ya's better learn Spanish.

Let me predict the future.

Mexican Spanish will be a required subject in schools and to qualify for a job, you will need to be fluent.

Lookin to me like the Muslims are getting pretty good at massacring Christians right now.

I have one in the 11th grade that speakie no English.

People in many states don't have a clue. In most of Ca., much of Oregon, Wa. State, Fl., NC, Minnesota, NYC, if you don't speak Spanish, you can figure not being able to work in the public sector.

Far as I'm concerned, private businesses can choose to hire only bilingual, or, their own language. I went to eat in China town, LA. They spoke only Chinese. Had to order by picture.

Government should be no place where (other than English) is catered to. Folks don't want to learn, let the interpreter fee come out of their pocket.