List of crimes committed in the United States by illegal aliens
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This is a list of notable crimes committed in the United States by persons who are in the country illegally.
According to empirical evidence, immigrants (including illegal immigrants) are less likely to commit crimes than native-born citizens in the United States.[1][2][3][4][5]
The topic has drawn wider attention as a political issue.[6] The 2008 Murder of Jamiel Shaw II ignited political debate over Los Angeles' sanctuary city policy and Special Order 40.[7][8]
During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump introduced what he called Angel Families, families that had lost a relative to crime committed by an illegal immigrant, as part of his campaign against mass immigration. It was seen as a response to rival candidate Hillary Clinton's campaigning alongside Mothers of the Movement, a group born to raise racial awareness in the wake of the Shooting of Trayvon Martin.[9][10] Trump continued to highlight crimes committed by illegal immigrants after taking office.[11][12]
| Date | Name | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, aka "The Railway Killer" | nationwide | Ángel Maturino Reséndiz is an illegal immigrant and serial killer believed to have committed as many as 23 murders, mostly along rail lines, in the United States and Mexico. He was executed in 2006.[13] |
| December 19, 2002 | 2002 Queens rape | Queens, New York | 5 homeless men, 4 of them in the U.S. illegally, 3 of them with criminal records, raped a woman in a hideout along a railroad track. The public outrage was so intense that Mayor Bloomberg revoked the city's sanctuary city status, a move he soon rescinded due to public outrage at the revocation.[14] |
| March 2, 2008 | Murder of Jamiel Shaw II | Los Angeles, California | Jamiel Shaw, a high school student with expectations of attending college on a football scholarship, was murdered as he returned home by two illegal immigrant members of drug-related criminal gang. One of the murderers had recently been released from jail, but was not deported because Los Angeles followed a sanctuary city policy.[15] |
| June 22, 2008 | Murder of the Bologna family | San Francisco, California | Edwin Ramos Umaña, an illegal alien and member of the MS-13 drug gang, shot and killed Tony Bologna (age 48) and his sons, Michael and Matthew (ages 20 and 16, respectively,) because he mistook them for members of the rival Norteños drug gang.[16] As a result of these killings, Mayor Gavin Newsom amended the city's sanctuary policy to permit city officials to refer juvenile illegal immigrant felons to ICE for deportation.[17] |
| November 16, 2010 | Murder of Joshua Wilkerson | Pearland, Texas | Joshua Wilkerson (18) was beaten to death with a wooden stick by his high school classmate, Hermilo Moralez (19.) Wilkerson's body was found with his hands and feet tied up; he had been severely beaten, tortured, strangled and burned.[18][19] Moralez had been previously convicted and jailed for harassing his ex-girlfriend; he had not been deported because authorities failed to identify him as an illegal alien.[20] |
| October 26, 2013 | Murder of the Zhuo family | New York City | Mingdong Chen, an unemployed, illegal immigrant stabbed his cousin's wife and the couple's four children to death with a butcher knife, telling police that he was jealous of his cousin for succeeding in America whereas he was failing. He was sentenced ot life in prison.[21] |
| October 24, 2014 | Murder of two California police officers by Luis Bracamontes | Sacramento, California | Bracamontes, then going by the name Marcelo Marquez, shot and killed Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver in the downtown Sacramento]], also shooting and wounding a third officer and a civilian. Bracamontes had been convicted and deported for selling drugs in 1997, arrested on drug-related charges in in 1998 but released, and arrested and deported again in 2001. He was sconvicted of murdering the two officers and , in 2018, sentenced to death.[22] |
| 15 June 2015 | Murder of Casey Chadwick | Norwich, Connecticut | An illegal alien who had previously been convicted of murder and had spent 15 years in prison was not deported when his term ended. He murdered a young woman and was again convicted of murder and sent to prison.[23] |
| July 1, 2015 | Felon in possession of a firearm | San Francisco, California | José Inez García Zárate was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm in connection with the shooting of Kate Steinle, although he was acquitted of her murder.[24] |
| March 2016 | 2016 Kansas-Missouri murder spree | Kansas and Missouri | On March 7, 2016 Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino shot and killed four men who lived next door to him in Kansas City, Kansas then drove across the state line and shot and killed a man in Montgomery County, Missouri on March 8 before being stopped by police.[25] He had been deported in 2014 but had returned to the U.S.[26] |
| June 18, 2017 | Killing of Nabra Hassanen | Sterling, Virginia | Hassanan (17) was with a group of teenagers returning from MacDonalds to their nearby mosque during the non-fasting hours of Ramadan. It was between 3 and 4 am when a man in a red car followed them, got out of his car, chased them, hit Hassanen with a baseball bat, and dragged her into his car, and drove off. He later dumped her dead body into a pond. The accused, Darwin Martinez Torres, (22,) is an illegal alien who worked in construction. [27] He pled guilty to rape and murder.[28] |
| December 16 - 17, 2018 | Tulare County spree shooting | Tulare County, California | The spree shooting began in farming country near Exeter, California and continued for 24 hours as the shooter drove around the county shooting at random people, killing two injuring seven before he died in a truck crash. The shooter was a convicted felon who had served time in American prisons and had reentered the country illegally for a third time, following deportations in 2004, and 2014. The shooter had been arrested on a misdemeanor charge, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requested that the Tulare County sheriff's office hold him in detention, but because of California Sanctuary Law SB54 the Sheriff was unable to comply. The shooting spree began shortly after the shooter was released form the County jail.[29][30][31] |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Are immigrants more likely to commit crimes? | Econofact". Econofact. February 14, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Trump calls for creation of office to support victims of crimes by illegal immigrants". Washington Post. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
On the campaign trail, Trump said he would seek to quickly deport between 2 million and 3 million immigrants with criminal records. But a study by the Migration Policy Institute found that 820,000 unauthorized immigrants had committed other crimes, including about 300,000 with felony records
- ↑ "Crime, Corrections, and California: What Does Immigration Have to Do with It? (PPIC Publication)". www.ppic.org. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
- ↑ Gonzalez, Benjamin; Collingwood, Loren; El-Khatib, Stephen Omar (May 7, 2017). "The Politics of Refuge: Sanctuary Cities, Crime, and Undocumented Immigration". Urban Affairs Review: 107808741770497. doi:10.1177/1078087417704974. Quote: "most studies have shown that undocumented immigrants tend to commit less crime than the native born"
- ↑ "Trump immigration claim has no data to back it up". PolitiFact. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
... every expert we polled said there is a consensus among scholars that undocumented immigrants are not more likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens.
- ↑ Root, Jay (9 February 2016). ""Criminal Aliens" Flashpoint of Border Security Debate". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ↑ Willon, Phil (12 December 2008). "'Jamiel's Law' misses ballot". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ↑ Palta, Rina (November 2, 2012). "Pedro Espinoza murder case that spurred immigration fight expected to end". KPCC.
- ↑ Reinhard, Beth (6 June 2016). "Trump Brings New Voices to Bitter Debate". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ↑ Goldberg, Michelle (1 September 2016). "Trump's "Angel Moms" Deserve Our Sympathy. But Their Message Is a Lie". Slate.
- ↑ Vogel, Kenneth; Rogers, Katie (4 July 2018). "For Trump and 'Angel Families,' a Mutually Beneficial Bond". New York Times. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ↑ Norman, Greg (9 January 2019). "Families of Americans killed by illegal immigrants take issue with claim Trump is 'manufacturing a crisis'". Fox News. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ↑ BABINECK, MARK. "Resendiz gets death - Lubbock Online - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal". Lubbockonline.com. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
- ↑ Sachs, Susan (23 July 2003). "Mayor's New Immigrant Policy, Intended to Help, Raises Fears". New York Times. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ↑ Esquivel, Paloma; Pringle, Paul; Vara-Orta, Francisco (March 4, 2008). "A youth 'on track' until fatal gunfire". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Van Derbeken, Jaxon (June 25, 2009). "Ramos: Gang buddy thought victims were Norteños". San Francisco Chronicle. p. B2.
- ↑ Van Derbeken, Jaxon (July 3, 2008). "S.F. mayor shifts policy on illegal offenders". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008.
- ↑ Christian, Carol. "21-year-old immigrant convicted in beating death of former Pearland classmate". Houston Chronicle.
- ↑ Nix, Kristi. "Jury hears evidence in Moralez murder trial". Houston Chronicle.
- ↑ Nix, Kristi. "Guilty verdict in Moralez murder trial". Houston Chronicle.
- ↑ Yee, Vivian; Singer, Jeffrey E. (December 29, 2013). "The Death of a Family, and an American Dream". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ↑ Stanton, Sam (April 25, 2018). "Cop killer Bracamontes gets tossed from court, then gets death penalty". Sacramento Bee. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ↑ Staff, Crimsider (17 July 2015). "Immigrant accused in Conn. killing was spared deportation". CBSNews.
- ↑ Stevens, Matt; Fuller, Thomas; Dickerson, Caitlan (November 30, 2017). "Trump Tweets 'Build the Wall' After Immigrant Is Acquitted in Kathryn Steinle Case". The New York Times.
- ↑ Helsel, Phil (March 9, 2016). "Immigration Agency Mistake Let Suspect Free Four Months Before Kansas Murder Spree". NBC News. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
- ↑ Suhr, Jim (March 9, 2016). "Slaying Suspect Managed to Elude US Immigration Authorities". ABC News. Associated Press. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
- ↑ Sinclair, Harriet (June 20, 2017). "Who Is Darwin Martinez-Torres? Suspect in Murder of Muslim Teen Is Held by ICE". Newsweek. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
- ↑ Bakarat, Matthew (November 29, 2018). "Man pleads guilty in Muslim teen's 2017 death in Northern Virginia". Richmond Times Dispatch. AP. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ↑ Farzan, Antonia Noori (December 20, 2018). "After a shooting suspect's 'reign of terror,' a California sheriff blames the state's sanctuary law". Washington Post. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
- ↑ Norman, Greg (December 20, 2014). "California cops 'frustrated' with sanctuary laws stopping them from working with ICE over twice-deported criminal". Fox News. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
- ↑ "Man dies in high-speed crash following deadly California rampage". New York Post. AP. December 18, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
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