Comments on: Unintended Consequences: Where Can Sex Offenders Live?

By: Valigator

Valigator — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:12:17 +0000

Based on a one-year in-depth study, a researcher estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each.
Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.

She found that while the offenders were located in 36 states, most were in states with the highest numbers of illegal immigrants. California had the most offenders, followed by Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Florida.

By: Jim Miller

Jim Miller — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:32:12 +0000

Illinois Law, the slippery slope revealed! Please review carefully page two (2) of this article. It stipulates that in Greenwood IL there is a law pending or on the books banning convicted sex offenders AND DRUG OFFENDERS from the parks. What next, DUI offenders from ever driving on the public roads, litterers from using the sidewalks, former drug addicts from using public rest rooms, former shop lifters from going in stores?

The link: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090818/NEWS02/908180354/Indiana+Supreme+Court+asked+for+clarity+on+local+sex+offender+restrictions

By: Brie

Brie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:16:06 +0000

I showed this post to my fiance because he did, in fact, once spend a few months homeless in Miami, and his response was, “Oh, yeah, I know that bridge… Wait, isn’t it just water under there? How do they even get down there? God, they might as well just kill them!”

By: Billie’s Quickies…and, this is why I generally don’t vote Republican « Daily Dose

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:31:04 +0000

[...] Even if the charges are mild – indecent exposure charges after being caught urinating in public for example – being labeled a sex-offender can really, really, really limit your chance to live a normal life. The unintended consequences of good intentions. [...]

By: thewhatifgirl

thewhatifgirl — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:30:24 +0000

I would point out that making sex offenders homeless also makes them a lot harder to keep track of. So if one of these sex offenders decides to move to another city or state, the parole officers notices they are missing and issues a warrant but what else can they do?

By: MSLGWCEO

MSLGWCEO — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:15:47 +0000

The Economist magazine has just released an important feature article entitled, “ Sex Laws: Unjust and Ineffective .” In an indirect way, the article makes a point that I have been trying to get across in my work on this issue : If you want to keep your kids safe from real sex offenders, we need to scrap our current sex offender registries and completely rethink the way we define and punish sex offenses in this country. That’s because, currently, a significant percentage of those people lis

http://tinyurl.com/mvag2c

By: MSLGWCEO

MSLGWCEO — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:53:35 +0000

Getting back to the jubject as this is not I.C.E. related.

By: Valigator

Valigator — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:42:57 +0000

Just remember for every accomadation I have to give to an illegal is one less I can give to a United States Citizen…for you people up in rural USA that dont have the monthly influx of illegals that I do…2000 a month…dont try and tell me what to do with homeless offenders….the majority of sex crimes committed in this state is by these guys…thats what you have to love about sex offenders and their advocates…they are too stupid to realize people like me while having little tolerance, would still rather house my own offenders than be shoved up against a wall to house illegals..

By: Village Idiot

Village Idiot — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:18:37 +0000

Oh, and about the people who come here and commit crimes: Rape is rape, molestation is molestation, murder is murder, etc. A crime is not worse or more heinous because of an individual’s immigration status. I live in a city with one of the top-5 murder rates in the country, and it has a large population of “illegal” people but the vast majority of killings, robberies, rapes, and assaults are committed by US citizens. So, it seems crime has more to do with factors like education, poverty, etc. but if they’re undocumented we can skip past all that nonsense, point out their immigration status, and call it solved (if we throw ‘em all out, that is).

By: MSLGWCEO

MSLGWCEO — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:13:18 +0000

The so-called illegals will no doubt stay under the bridge until their parole is up. After all this is about $$$$. Keep them on the roasters for the love of $$$$!

By: Village Idiot

Village Idiot — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:58:11 +0000

Oh, well why didn’t anyone mention they were “illegal?” If that’s the case, then who gives a damn what happens to them, eh? Never mind the fact that the vast majority of people who are in this country illegally would much rather be back in their home country, but due to things like NAFTA, the WTO, and the IMF their home economies are trashed (Clinton militarized the US/Mexican border in 1996 in anticipation of the consequences of NAFTA). Ultimately, people coming here to work and sending money back home before returning themselves is probably a lot cheaper than aid and peacekeeping missions to feed them if they stayed home, starved, and eventually destabilized their country (that’s not ideal if it happens to the country next-door, for example).

The very idea of an “illegal” human being is repugnant. And irrelevant. It’s a good thing a plaque that can be found inside a big statue off the coast of New York wasn’t written in Spanish or lots of people would realize it was apparently a bogus PR stunt:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

That’s some funny stuff to read these days. A possible update might be “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, and I will hide them under a bridge until something horrible happens and the press gets a hold of it.”

By: MSLGWCEO

MSLGWCEO — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:27:11 +0000

There is only one clear solution to this. DO AWAY WITH RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS ALTOGETHER! They don’t work! They protect no one, yet endanger our entire society.

These men need a stable home and jobs. What is so hard to understand about that. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand such as simple solution. But it does take Ron Book and the state legislator’s to muck this up.

By: MSLGWCEO

MSLGWCEO — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:21:12 +0000

I couldn’t agree more.

By: MSLGWCEO

MSLGWCEO — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:18:22 +0000

Ron Book could care less for “evidence based law reform. He has painted himself into a corner and is trying to clean his lies that led the crusade against all sex offenders regardless of the charge. He called them ALL monsters and is now trying to back peddle, Only to make himself look better in the public’s eyes.

By: MSLGWCEO

MSLGWCEO — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:13:57 +0000

Illegal alians, sex offender or not is off topic. The issue here is the absolutely draconian residence restrictions which protect absolutely no one and actually, “endanger everyone”

And Paula Zahn is just another bubble headed reporter that keeps duping the public with “emotional” issues, without real investigative journalistic integrity. Ratings are worth more to CNN than truth. Fear sells, emotion sells, and to hell with the truth.