As of July 2024, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) reported that 662,566 noncitizens with criminal backgrounds are on its national docket, with 435,719 convicted criminals among them. Their crimes include tens of thousands of homicides and sexual assaults. As expected, this large number of criminals among the migrants freely roaming America is being largely ignored by the media. Are these figures accurate, and can you explain why this is happening and how it fits into the big picture?

These figures are a significant underestimate. Keep in mind there has been little individual personal vetting of migrants in order to establish a prior history or track record as a citizen in their host countries. While there are many forward-looking, imaginative, and creative citizens of Third World countries seeing the United States as a shining example of new possibilities and willing to do much sacrifice to come to America, even if they need to do so illegally, sneaking into a foreign country is, indeed, an act of criminality in today's world and everyone knows this. So there will, in fact, be many opportunistic individuals, with quite selfish perspectives and compromised morality, who will have no compunctions about exploiting a weak border and, once they arrive in the United States, may have no hesitation in turning to crime when they are dissatisfied living humbly from handouts they might enjoy initially. Many will be recruitable for organized migrant gangs, either because they have such a history already or they feel lost and out of place, and the appeal of gang membership, in effect, substitutes for a family. So the problem of migrant criminality is significant and growing in its negative consequences, even as the media look the other way and the politicians continue to be manipulated to keep the borders open, because the interlopers know this will undermine the country and that is what they want to see happen.