http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy...0401220906.asp
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_...gal_alien.html
I'm having trouble finding a primary source, so it might just be circular referencing. Here are the statistics being quoted:
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In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.
The leadership of the Columbia Lil Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.
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Another article also mentions that an estimated 8 million immigrants live in this country illegally. Using the tax rates found here (
http://www.savewealth.com/taxes/rates/single/), assuming they all made $6000 that would produce around $4.8 billion in additional tax income. I find it hard to believe a wall would cost that much to construct, given that the total budget for INS is around $5 billion or so.
I think America should be a land of opportunity for those who do not violate our laws. Obviously we're not going to be totally successful in blocking illegal immigration, but our borders need to be much more secure than they are now.