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December 6, 2005
No Blood for Lawns
Posted by Dave Blount at December 6, 2005 5:38 PM
Ever wonder how many people are killed in this country by illegal aliens every year? Mac Johnson of Human Events did.
He wondered enough to go to great lengths trying to extract an answer from the numerous bureaucracies that make up our state and federal governments. His efforts were not successful, because the same bureaucrats who can tell you if transsexual African-American dwarves are underrepresented among mid-level executives in the dental floss industry cannot be bothered to keep any statistics on how many Americans illegal immigrants kill.
Having ascertained that the government could not provide an answer, Johnson came up with his own, based on murder statistics in the countries the illegals came from. Using very conservative assumptions, he concluded that illegal aliens kill between 1,806 and 2,510 Americans every year. As he notes:
We have just passed the much-vaunted 2,000 deaths mark in the invasion of Iraq, a necessary endeavor. In that same 32 months, there have possibly been between 4,800 and 6,700 deaths in the invasion of the United States by illegal aliens, a corrupt endeavor tolerated in a frivolous pursuit of cheap labor.
Constituting 3% of our population, illegal aliens probably commit 11–15% of our murders. But as Johnson points out, "at least our lawns look nice."
Hat tip: Byron
