Byron York nails down some Ayers stuff and explains why Ayers and Dohrn “don’t remember” so many things. Unbelievable that this guy is a U of CHI professor and sits on Boards galore.
Crime
Posted by E!!
on July 28, 2008
Blogs of Nevada, Congress, Crime, House, Illegal Immigration, Senate / No Comments
Blogs of Nevada, Congress, Crime, House, Illegal Immigration, Senate / No Comments
Not sure if anyone else caught Laura Ingraham’s interview with Danielle Bologna on her radio talk show last week? This is the San Francisco woman whose husband and two sons were brutally murdered last month by Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. Thanks to the policies of America’s most famous “Sanctuary City,” authorities failed to place an immigration hold on Ramos despite TWO prior convictions on gang-related FELONIES…AND an arrest on gun charges in March.
Click here to contact San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome’s office and let him know what you think about this! You can also contact your Senator and/or Congressman with your thoughts about illegal immigration.
My three cents: ALL illegal immigrants – not just those who violate ADDITIONAL laws after breaking our immigration laws to get here - should be reported and deported on “first contact” with a U.S. citizen and/or our authorities. Our immigration laws are not (and should not be treated as if) they are casual suggestions.
For an example of the proper care and handling of illegal immigrants, see this story re: a major raid and dozens of arrests in northern Nevada last fall and this follow up story describing the consequences for a company’s failure to comply with immigration law: a Reno McDonald’s franchise owner was ordered to pay $1M in fines for knowingly employing illegal immigrants.
A couple of Nevada lawmakers are trying to get a bill passed that will do something about illegal immigration in Nevada – but unfortunately there does not seem to be wide support in the Nevada Assembly.
See Nevada State Senator Bob Beers’ blog post entitled Per Capita Measures of Nevada for an interesting examination of our supposed violent crime and homicide rates.
Because we are a huge tourist destination, Beers asked the Legistlative Counsel Bureau to develop a statistical measure of tourists v. residents – which they did, here. The upshot is that when you figure in all the “visitor days” (how many tourists are here for how many days vs. the resident population) you find that 21.5% of human activity on any given day in Nevada can be attributed to tourists while 78.5% can be attributed to residents.
Beers goes on to do some math re: our per capita crime rates and suggests we might be a less aberrant population than the rankings say. Also, Greg McFarlane chimed in on a Comment and said that a few years ago Mother’s Against Drunk Driving was up in arms about our drunk driving rate – which did not factor in all the drunk tourists.
