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Former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, a Charlatan?

by on Jul. 31, 2012, under Arpaio, California Dreaming, Russell Pearce

By Raoul Lowery Contreras (Reposted with permission)

Part Two (Part One)

Stupid statements by former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce as well as monstrous lies he tells are Pearce trademarks. Here, for example, is another Pearce pearl:

Pearce: “10 a day [coming across the U.S.-Mexico border] according to the Atlanta Science Foundation…are sexual predators.”

Deborah Schurman-Kauflin (DSK), has a Limited Liability Corporation in Atlanta she calls the Violent Crimes Institute. It is a one-person-for-profit company; she, charges $500-a-half hour if you want to speak with her on any subject.

Her 2006 paper “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration,” is where Pearce drew his statement about “sexual predators.” She claimed that “2 percent of illegals apprehended” were sex offenders and serial killers. She provides no source for that figure that others can see. She claims to have examined Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports and public records for an 88 month period but in reality she references mostly weekly newspapers and some ICE press releases, not official reports, prison or court records.

In her own words, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin says she: “(Conducted) a 12 month in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders for the time period January 1999 through April 2006…There were 1500 cases…They included: serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides, and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.”

However, nowhere in her bibliography or her footnotes is there any mention of any specific official reports by any law enforcement agency, any court or any prison system.

Here is how she arrives at her numbers: “Based on population numbers of 12,000,000 illegal immigrants and the fact that young males make up more of this population than the general U.S. population, sex offenders in the illegal immigrant group make up a higher percentage.”

Of what, one might ask? More than 6,000,000 of those illegally here are males, of which about half would be young men. No one, however, knows what the numbers or percentages truly are. California reports that over half of illegally present male convicts are incarcerated for crimes of property and, less than 10% of all California inmates have immigration holds.

She says, “When examining ICE reports and public records, it is consistent to find sex offenders comprising 2% of illegals apprehended. Based on this 2% figure, which is conservative, there are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States.”

With this, she misrepresents her work. She didn’t examine actual reports. She ran across a government (GAO) report about inmates, but did not state, 2% of all local, state and federal inmates illegally in the U.S.A were sex criminals. Of course, the reason is that the feds don’t tabulate such crimes because they aren’t federal crimes, so her raw sources can’t be studied because they don’t exist.

She is in error. If there are 6-million illegally present males and 2% of them are sex offenders, there are, according to her math, 120,000 illegally immigrated males, not 240,000. She used the 12 million figure despite as many as 6-million being females and children.

DSK: “This translates to 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders coming across U.S. borders illegally per day.” But, how can that be? During the peak of illegal immigration, 8,000 males were estimated to cross the border daily – based on apprehensions – that would amount to 160 alleged sexual offenders, not “93 sex offenders and 12 serial offenders” crossing every day. Her numbers make no sense.

Gustavo Arrellano AKA Ask A Mexican says it better: “For the Mexican, a more telling number in determining sexual deviancy amongst an ethnic group is the percentage of criminals arrested for such crimes: In 2003, gabachos (white boys) incarcerated for sex crimes represented about 18 percent of all gabacho inmates in state prisons; perverted Hispanics, conversely, made up just 11 percent (RLC, and over half of those are American citizens not illegal immigrants — strangely enough, the U.S. Department of Justice doesn’t keep the same statistics for federal prisons). According to this comparison, gabachos are more likely as a group to sexually assault you than Mexicans…”

Can an objective person stumble on the DSK’s work and accept it without an examination as done here? No.

Pearce spent decades in law enforcement; he knows law enforcement statistics. How could he possibly accept such shoddy work enough to quote it?

Simple explanation, he wants to believe such shoddy work because he wants reinforcement for his fantasy world of criminal illegal immigrants, criminal Mexicans. Between Pearce and DKS do we find the living embodiment of the word “charlatan?”

Defining DKS as a shoddy researcher and disseminator of fantasies is one thing; for a former Arizona State Senate President, recalled though he was, to be a current candidate for a new senate District in Arizona…that is a tragedy. He is not worthy.

Editors note: As with all postings on this blog which appear with a byline, the posting represents the author’s opinion and not the official position of Cafe Con Leche Republicans.

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

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  • augustoperez

    Yes, but “gabacho” sex offenders are here and there is little we can legally do to keep them out of their country.  Illegal aliens should not be preying on our citizens , but those of Mexico, Guatemala, Russia, or wherever the little deviant is from.

    In that respect, one murderer or sex offender is unacceptable to its victim or tthe family of the victim…

    Certainly, Mr. Lowery is carrying water for some interest not in tune with Mr. Pearce’s work.  Who could they be?  Maybe we too should “ask a Mexican…  I bet you he’d know. 

    • tunkashila

      You seem to assume that no immigrants have white skin, even coming from Russia.  In that respect, the assumption is unacceptable to anyone with more than three active brain cells or their families. 

      • augustoperez

        “Tounge-in-cheek”:
        Where in my comment do I refer to skin color?  You should first engage brain before releasing fingers to key in what passes for “reasoning”, flawed as it may be.

        As the Spanish sayinggoes: “Every one in their home and God in everyone’s home”.  Illegal aliens should be deported.  They should not be able to appeal anything while here as their is a statutory violation of our immigration laws.  By the same token, maybe the families of victims of illegal aliens should be able to recoup from those governments that expel their citizens upon our soil and then fight in court to keep them here and to keep states from booting them out.

        • tunkashila

          I stand corrected, Mr. Perez-the term gabacho is used in Spanish to refer to foreigners of different origins, not skin color as I erroneously thought. 

          Speaking of flawed reasoning, you apparently labor under the belief that gabachos are not entitled to due process, which is not only constitutionally wrong but abhorrent in the extreme.  If you believe people are not entitled to the same basic rights under the law based on their nationality and location, I suggest you move someplace more amenable to your attitudes.   

          • augustoperez

            I’m surprised you can stand corrected or otherwise…  Gabacho is not precisely an inoffensive term as mentioned by you in “the term gabacho is used in Spanish to refer to foreigners of different origins, not skin color”, you’d lamely would try to have others think…  Let’s see what others who may know more about this than you have to say: 
             
            http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gabacho
            starts off with this definition: 
            Chicano pejorative term for an English-speaking, non-Hispanic
            Then;
            White man, woman. Similar to term Gringo.
            That gabacho was so uptight, he wouldn’t let us get ahead in line
            Ending up in;
            Only Gringos call Gringos Gringos. Mexicans call Gringos > Gabachos.
            yo, cholo, check out that Gabacho
             
            Now that we’ve addressed your “flawed reasoning”, and properly schooled you in “cholobonics”, let’s look at your latest accusation.  When it comes to illegal immigration, I believe that people are entitled to be where they are legally entitled to be.  In the case of illegal aliens, that would be their country of origin prior to entering the USA.  We can have them argue in front of an immigration judge using videoconference facilities at our consulates, in their country of origin.  This way they are not a further burden to our economy, their rights to a fair hearing are preserved and their nationality does not enter that portion of the equation beyond their obvious lack of a passport with a duly executed and effective visa.  I can only guess where you’re from, but I am in the country that I was born in, the country in whose armed forces I’ve served, and that our elected officials are in such haste to transform into a third world Babel drowning in foreigners who are not the least interested in becoming Americans in the style of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and Lincoln, but more in the style of Bolivar, Sucre, Zapata and Che Guevara.

            BTW, you have yet to address my calling you out on: “Where in my comment do I refer to skin color?  You should first engage brain before releasing fingers to key in what passes for “reasoning”, flawed as it may be.” 

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/V24WOJGBAIO6QRBDBTOPPD4DPQ Ado

      I’m curious, not being at all fluent in Spanish terminology,  is “gabacho” a pejorative, a disparaging racial epithet? 

      • augustoperez

        It is a Mexican pejorative originally aimed at the Frenchj occupiers of Mexico and now used when refering to “Gringos”.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/V24WOJGBAIO6QRBDBTOPPD4DPQ Ado

    What is it that Mr.  Contreras fails to understand, fails to get, about the word “ILLEGAL”.  These Mexicans(mostly) are illegal aliens.  They have taken it upon themselves to flaunt U.S. Immigration Law with their first step across the border upon entering the U.S.  I think when any large number of people are looked at critically, some of them are going to turn up as being criminals.  Whether they were criminals before they left Mexico is not the issue.  They all became criminal  through their illegal entry into this country.  They should all be treated as such. 

    Becoming a lawbreaker as your first act across the border does not qualify anyone to be a member of U.S. society, no matter their economic hardships.   Let all the illegals be returned to their homeland and do it over, this time do it the way prescribed by U.S. law. My grandparents did it that way.  There is no reason why we should be making exception to obeying laws just because someone has a Hispanic surname and came across our southern border with Mexico.

    • http://twitter.com/CafeConLecheGOP Cafe con Leche GOP

      Mr. Contreras is a U.S. Citizen, a life-long Republican, and also the author of 13 books.

      Nice try at changing the subject. The blog posting is about how Russell Pearce tells monstrous lies to justify his agenda, basically resorting to fear mongering by referring to a rather sloppy study that wildly inflates a real problem. As with any large group, there are always a few rotten apples, and what Pearce and other border alarmists do is wildly exaggerate a problem to push their agenda.

      Pearce is disgrace and I look forward to his permanent retirement from office, since he did not comprehend the message from voters after his recall loss.

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