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INVASION USA
Illegal aliens linked to gang-rape wave
The crime epidemic no one will talk about?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51424
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Posted: August 22, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
� 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A wave of illegal-immigrant gang rapes is sweeping the U.S. while public
officials and law-enforcement authorities fear drawing the link, experts
say.

Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, a Ph.D. researcher of violent crimes, told
WorldNetDaily, "It appears as if there is a fear that if this is honestly
discussed, people will hate all illegal immigrants. So there is silence. .
But in being silent about the rapes and murders, it is as if the victims
never even existed."

Schurman-Kauflin, who runs the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta,
participated in a 12-month, in-depth study of illegal immigrants who
committed sex crimes and murders from January 1999 through April 2006. The
study found approximately 240,000 illegal-immigrant sex offenders reside in
the United States - while 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders
come across U.S. borders illegally every day.

Schurman-Kauflin said, "Gang rapes by illegal immigrants appear to be gang
related. Many of the cases I reviewed involved gang members. As part of
being a cohesive group, they offend together. Inflicting brutal gang rapes
brings them closer together as a group. It is a way to demonstrate their
power. And it sends a message to anyone who dares to cross them."

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC told WND it now is tracking 12 gang
rapes by illegal aliens within America's borders since Oct. 2004.

ALIPAC's president, William Gheen, said, "These are just the ones we know
of. The real number is much higher."

Gheen told WND he believes the number of gang rapes is increasing as the
population of illegal aliens in the U.S. increases.

"Many illegal aliens have a rape and pillage mentality toward America," he
said. "The government has shown them they can break our laws on many levels
without much fear of enforcement. Why should they think of rape or gang rape
any differently?"

Gheen said, "Illegal aliens are more likely to engage in these crimes
because rapes and gang rapes are much more common in the gang-rule Third
World areas they come from."

MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, a highly organized and well-funded
Central American gang, is infiltrating at least 33 states across the U.S.,
according to law-enforcement authorities. The gang is well-known in Los
Angeles, Houston, New York and Washington, D.C., for excessive brutality.
Any person suspected of cooperating with authorities is hunted down,
tortured and killed. Initiation rites include kickings, beatings and gang
rapes.

Gheen said, "These gangs are forcing new female gang members to undergo gang
rape to enter the gang and they are asking their male initiates to gang rape
American women to become an official member of the gang."

MS-13 relies on metropolitan areas with highly concentrated populations of
illegal aliens to boost its spreading membership. Chapters require that
initiates perform random acts of violence, such as participating in gang
rapes, to gain acceptance, confirm law-enforcement officials.

Three MS-13 gang members were charged in the brutal rapes of two deaf girls,
one 14, the other 17, in a Massachusetts park in 2002. One victim, who also
suffered from cerebral palsy, was pushed out of her wheelchair before being
raped repeatedly.

Illegal alien rapists often maintain several aliases, making escaping
justice easier.

Jorge Villa-Gutierrez, 25, is in prison for the gang rape of an 18-year-old
Douglas County, Colorado woman. He claimed to have paid only $100 for a fake
ID and Social Security number.

Manuel Cantu, 28, pleaded guilty in Middlesex Superior Court February 2005
in Cambridge, Mass., to six counts of rape and one count of indecent assault
and battery on a person over 14 years old. Cantu also went by the aliases
Angel Meza and Angel M. Salvador, according to court documents.

Gheen said, "Illegal aliens have been walking out of American prisons after
serving their time at taxpayer expense without being deported. Our
government can't or won't find the hundreds of thousands of known felon
illegal aliens walking America's streets tonight much less stop the new
felons coming in tonight across our unsecured borders."

The Violent Crimes Institute study established a pattern of escalating
offenses among illegal aliens, whose first offense was illegally entering
the U.S.

Schurman-Kauflin told WND, "Illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes first
cross the U.S. border illegally, then gradually commit worse crimes and are
continually released back into society or deported. Those who were deported
simply returned illegally again. There is a clear pattern of criminal
escalation. From misdemeanors such as assault or DUI, to drug offenses,
illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes break U.S. laws repeatedly."

Most of the offenders reported in the study were located in states with the
highest numbers of illegal immigrants. California was No. 1, followed by
Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Florida. The 1,500 offenders
studied had a total of 5,999 victims - averaging four victims each. Of those
studied, 525, or 35 percent, were child molestations, 358, or 24 percent,
were rapes, and 617, or 41 percent, were sexual homicides and serial
murders.

Schurman-Kauflin said, "We need to know who is coming into this country. It
is a matter of security, life and death. . Our borders should be secured so
that those with evil intentions cannot enter. We need more Border Patrol
agents, more training for these agents and a commitment that we will not
tolerate predators coming into this country. There must be security and a
return to the rule of law."

Last year, officials of the House Judiciary Committee said that U.S.
immigration officers and police are not always on the same page. Police do
not always inform immigration authorities about arrests of undocumented
aliens, and immigration officers are often too late to identify the aliens
before they are released on bail.

New York's arm of the Department of Homeland Security is only interviewing
40 percent of foreign-born inmates at Rikers Island - "a failure that puts
criminal aliens back on the streets instead of deporting them," according to
the New York Post.

"Gang rape is a form of terrorism. It has been used throughout history as a
weapon of terror," Gheen said. "Most Americans do not see the war that is
already upon us in our communities and neighborhoods."

Folinskyinla

Hi:

Just curious about any statistical correlation between the number of crimes and the groups of 1. "illegal aliens" 2. aliens lawfully present in the US and 3. United States Citizens.

My medical friends often make reference to "anecdotal evidence" which can be useful, but controlled studies are more definitive.