By Paul Weiser
The illegal-alien nexus increasingly attracts all forms of criminal acitivity from violent street gangs to drug-dealing, smuggling, and money-laundering. Some would simply say "like to like," illegal status to illegal behavior - but in fact, the relationship is both more complex and substantially more perverse.
Earlier (legal) immigrant groups, whether external (Irish and Italian) or internal (southern blacks) by source, also developed criminal subcultures. This was partly an us-against-the-world response, where criminal gangs offered real as well as cynical "protection" to other members of the immigrant group. To the extent the world was truly against these groups (that is, before they learned to fit in and the police, courts and other citizens began to take their troubles seriously) this may even have been justified.
The perversity began with blacks, who were advancing economically and starting to fit in before "civil rights" hit. Government attempts to favor blacks had the perverse effect of also favoring black criminals by withholding judgement - with the disastrous consequence that half of all crime is now committed by blacks... who constitute only a tenth of the population.
By the time Mexican illegal immigration was recognized as a serious problem (about the turn of the millennium) this pattern was set - and further reinforced by the economic value of illegals to whites. Where blacks had merely sold reefer and jazz, illegals would dig ditches, wash dishes and babysit - activities blacks disdain because they have welfare to fall back on.
In short, as with blacks after "civil rights," crime clusters into and festers within the illegal-alien nexus because elites who want illegals around for their slave-like qualities shield illegals - and by extension, all Hispanics - from all criticism and every law. As any rational person would expect, this perverse sleep of judgement produces a vicious, numerous and multiplying tribe of monsters.
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