[caption id=”attachment_146877″ align=”aligncenter” width=”963″] In this Dec. 14, 2011 photo, Univision newscaster Jorge Ramos works in the studio in Miami, Florida. Ramos is anchors one of the most watched news shows in Spanish the U.S. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Journalist-turned-immigration advocate Jorge Ramos, argued that laws punishing illegal immigrants who re-enter the country are unfair.
In an interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter, Ramos discussed Kate’s Law, a proposal named after Kate Steinle, who was recently slain in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times for multiple felonies.
Under Kate’s Law any illegal immigrant who was deported and returned to the U.S. upon conviction would receive a mandatory five-year sentence in federal prison.
“I think that it is unfair that because one undocumented immigrant killed a wonderful human being that all immigrants are being blamed for that killing,” Ramos said. “It is so unfair. It is as unfair as if we were to criticize all white men in the United States for what happened in that theater in Aurora, Colorado.”
Ramos went to extra lengths to note how few Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants.
“My condolences go to those families of those two Americans, those wonderful Americans, who have been killed recently by undocumented immigrants,” he said.
It has been far more than a few.
The Texas Department of Justice reported that from June 1, 2011, and August 31, 2015, 168,000 criminal aliens were arrested in the state for committing 451,000 criminal offenses. They include 917 homicide charges; 53,310 assault charges; 13,618 burglary charges; 52,742 drug charges; 561 kidnapping charges; 33,210 theft charges; 35,943 obstructing police charges; 3,052 robbery charges; 4,739 sexual assault charges; and 6,767 weapons charges.
Of the 168,000 immigrants arrested for committing crimes, 111,000 – the overwhelming majority – were in the U.S. illegally.
And that’s just in one state.
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