The Connection between Illegal Immigration and Organized Crime

....While most immigrants arrive here with a strong work ethic, there are large numbers of those who are career criminals, or who have received previous training in guerilla fighting tactics, money-laundering techniques, unbounded criminal conspiracies and murder, as well as operating clandestine drug laboratories, prostitution rings, theft rings, drug distribution networks, etc. Continuing to allow them to have unfettered opportunity to enter the United States would pose continued, unacceptable threat to our security.

Furthermore, as has been witnessed several times since the 9/11 “Attacks on America,” illegal aliens have had unrestricted ability to enter/access various secure facilities such as airports and maritime ports, highly technical industries (including some defense contractors), etc. The fact is, with our current disorganized and uncontrolled immigration, we in the law enforcement community have no idea who these people are until they are well established here. Add the factors that they generally cross multiple jurisdictions, and utilize the internet to establish a worldwide range of collaborative criminal relationships. ....