Illegal Immigrants In Prisons

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines illegal as “not according to or authorized by the law.” Due to all the debate around President Trump building the wall along the Mexico border, there have been extensive discussions around immigrants that are unauthorized to be in the United States. If a person is unauthorized by the law, that renders them illegal, hence the term “illegal” immigrants. Liberals and Democrats repeatedly state because a “few” have committed crimes, we should not judge all of them. Haven’t all of them committed a crime as soon as they came into our country without authorization from the law? Or remained in our country after their Visa expired, knowing they were committing a crime?
For the sake of argument, let’s take that
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And what is the percentage of illegals in prison? 2) It is almost impossible to find the data needed to locate the correct ratio’s and the percentages of Illegal Immigrants in the U.S. to understand what the ratio truly is. Hundreds of millions of people populate the U.S. legally, but Illegal Immigrants made up approximately 11.7 Million of the population in 2013, you might find that percentage in our prisons is a great deal more proportional than what the Left leads you to …show more content…
Paying for them to live locked up in prison for years, receiving three meals a day, a warm bed, free cable, and a roof over their head so that a majority of them after being released, can commit another crime, is painful to think about. Now we are required to pay for another Country’s criminals who come over to our Country illegally, to commit crimes against our own Citizens, only to spend our money to deport them multiple times. In multiple cases, they come back over and carry out worse crimes. Horrific crimes of abuse, rape, murder, manslaughter, assault, is happening daily and instead of allowing our President and Law Enforcement to keep us safe, our Citizens disrespect them. We cannot protect those from other countries if we cannot protect ourselves. We are giving away our country, our children's futures, the land that we fought for, the freedoms that we fought for, only for them to kill us.
You will find a second article posted on my blog that lists a small portion of sex crimes committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United States. It is sex crimes only, it does not count for DUI’s, burglary, embezzlement, fraud of our welfare system, murder, or other crimes committed. The list also does not cover all the sexual offenses in any given year. I do believe by writing about these, that maybe some people will understand what

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