Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Illegal Immigration

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Written by Laurence F Sanford, Senior Analyst ASCF

Categories: ASCF Articles

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March 5th, 2024 - Mass illegal immigration is leading to Societal Suicide in the United States. A country with no control over its borders has no country, which results in:

● Breakdown of society because of millions of illegal immigrants with no commonality to American Civilization
● Drugs killing Americans
● Increased crimes - murder, robbery, child trafficking, prostitution, slavery
● Bankrupt cities, medical facilities, and education systems
● Terrorism
● Diseases once rare in the U.S. are now on the rise

The American Civilization is breaking down due to the massive influx of mostly young men coming from cultures with none of the attributes that make America great. American Civilization is based on merit, order and law, the English language, individual freedoms of speech, religion, the pursuit of happiness (virtue), capitalism, and equality. Diversity based on race or religion is not our strength; unity of culture is our strength! “E Pluribus Unum” (out of many, one) is our national motto.

According to the U.S. Border Patrol and Office of Field Operations, in the past three years, over 7.2 million illegal migrants have crossed the U.S. border, which is more than the population of 36 states. Not included in this tally are 1.5 million “gotaways” who are defined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as “a person who is not turned back or apprehended after making an illegal entry” along the U.S. border. A “gotaway” is recorded when cameras or sensors detect illegals crossing the border, but no one is found, or border agents were not available to respond.

Illegal immigrants total 8.7 million. The number is substantially higher if one includes gotaways who avoided detection and thus are more dangerous. 10 million or more is the probable number of illegal immigrants.

Deadly drugs are crossing the border. Over 110,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2023, with fentanyl accounting for two-thirds of the deaths. China manufactures fentanyl precursor chemicals and then ships them on Chinese ships to Manzanillo, a Chinese-controlled Mexican port; the chemicals are then shipped to a Chinese-controlled fentanyl manufacturing facility in Mexico with 2000 Chinese nationals, from where the drugs are distributed through an alliance of Chinese and Mexican drug cartels to the United States. The drug monies collected from drug sales are then laundered by Chinese students on education visas through Chinese state-owned banks.

Violent crimes of rape, robbery, and murder are surging with illegal immigrants. See the chart below from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Total Criminal Convictions by Type
This table organizes nationwide convictions of criminal noncitizens by type of criminal conduct. Because some criminal noncitizens may be convicted of multiple criminal offenses, the total convictions listed below exceed the total arrests noted in the table above.

Conviction Type FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24YTD
Assault, Battery, Domestic Violence 692 524 299 208 1,178 1,142 1,254 372
Burglary, Robbery, Larceny, Theft, Fraud 595 347 184 143 825 896 864 236
Driving Under the Influence 1,596 1,113 614 364 1,629 1,614 2,493 935
Homicide, Manslaughter 3 3 2 3 60 62 29 14
Illegal Drug Possession, Trafficking 1,249 871 449 386 2,138 2,239 2,055 536
Illegal Entry, Re-Entry 4,502 3,920 2,663 1,261 6,160 6,797 8,790 3,517
Illegal Weapons Possession, Transport, Trafficking 173 106 66 49 336 309 307 80
Sexual Offenses 137 80 58 156 488 365 284 73
Other1 1,851 1,364 814 580 2,691 2,891 3,286 1,072

TV, newspapers, social media, and websites tell of illegal immigrant crimes:

● Police are attacked in New York City, with the attacker being released the next day, flashing the high sign.
● A University of Georgia coed was murdered while running.
● Almost two-thirds of federal arrests involve noncitizens.

In 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered 169 persons on the terror watch list and 15,267 with criminal convictions.

Summary

The U.S. economy needs immigrant workers. The question is how to control the flow. The answer is that laws and regulations now exist to dramatically reduce and control the inflow. The problem is the lack of political will to enforce the laws and regulations.

The cost to American society of illegal immigration at present levels is unsustainable. It is estimated that the annual cost to American citizens is $150 billion. Cities and states are facing dramatic cost increases servicing illegal immigrants. New York City will pay $10 billion to service migrants in education, health care, food, housing, and law enforcement.

The U.S. border enforcement budget has risen to $25.9 billion --- more than twice the FBI’s budget.

Action

1. Build a border wall along the Mexican border. Strengthen Canadian border control.
2. Enforce existing immigration laws.
3. Pass legislation to address the issue of law-abiding and economically independent migrants living in the U.S.
4. Deport/incarcerate law-breaking migrants.

Peace Through Strength!

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