We have real divisions in this country. But there sure as heck are folks who enjoy pouring gasoline on the fire. Megyn Kelly pointed out that some acts of violence get enormous attention from this White House, while others don’t:
Kate [Steinle]’s murder has since exploded into a national debate on illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities, and crime. With the White House ducking the issue of its own acquiescence in these cities’ decision to flout the federal immigration laws which were duly enacted. When asked repeatedly this week to speak to this case, White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to weigh in other than to refer folks to the Department of Homeland Security.
A stark contrast to what we saw after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson. A man we know was attacking a police officer at the time of his death. His funeral saw three Obama officials in attendance, his death drew comments from President Obama personally and his administration also sent in the DOJ and 40 FBI agents dispatched to Missouri after Michael Brown was killed. Where is the swarm of agents in San Francisco?
Then there was Freddie Gray in Baltimore, a repeat drug offender who was killed in police custody. Here again his funeral was attended by three Obama administration officials and again the President spoke personally to Freddie Gray’s death. And again sent the DOJ in to investigate. When Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida, the president spoke to his death which was later ruled to be in self-defense. But Katie Steinle, nothing. No comments, no swarm of FBI agents, no DOJ investigation, nothing. Why?
How many people would riot if no one ever called for riots? How many people would riot if no one sought to justify and excuse them?
The message from the White House was pretty clear after the Trayvon Martin shooting, Ferguson, and Baltimore: This is a legitimate reason for outrage, and we’re as outraged as you are. The silence from the White House indicates Katie Steinle’s murder is not a cause for outrage. And while Donald Trump made his comments about crimes committed by illegal immigrants from Mexico before Steinle’s murder, the gang-tackling denunciation indicates that quite a few media voices believe that just bringing up the issue of crimes committed by illegal immigrants is somehow illegitimate or morally wrong.
On a related note, the FBI collects statistics on every crime committed in the country, but for some reason, it’s astoundingly hard to find data on how many were committed by illegal immigrants.
The number of criminal aliens in federal prisons in fiscal year 2010 was about 55,000, and the number of SCAAP (State
Criminal Alien Assistance Program) criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails was about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009 (the most recent data available), and the majority were from Mexico.
State prison data indicated that 66 percent of their illegal-immigrant prisoners were from Mexico, and 70 percent of illegal immigrant prisoners in local jails.
Wait, there’s more:
From fiscal years 2003 through 2009, the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails increased from about 220,000 in fiscal year 2003 to about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009. Specifically, the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems increased by about 25 percent and the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in local jails increased by about 40 percent.
Here’s the good news in that report: “Of the nearly 3 million arrest offenses in our study population, we estimate that about 50 percent were related to immigration, drugs, or traffic violations.” The bad news is that other 50 percent. Out of the 2.8 million arrests in the dataset, the report estimates 213,047 arrests for assaults, 125,322 thefts, 120,810 cases of fraud, forgery, and counterfeiting; 115,045 burglaries, 69,929 sex offenses, 25,064 homicides, 14,788 kidnappings, and 2,005 arsons.
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