America $167


I BY JOHN R. LOTT


n june, victor martinez- Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland.


Police in Oklahoma tracked the


accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a 9-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say he came to the U.S. illegal-


ly to escape prosecution for at least one other murder in his native El Salvador in December 2022. Like the member of the Venezuelan


gang Tren de Aragua sentenced to life in prison in November for the murder of Laken Riley in Georgia, Hernandez’s case is shining a light on the federal government’s failure to properly vet


CHARGE Arson Assault


Burglary Drugs


Fraudulent Activities Gambling Larceny Liquor


Motor Vehicle Theft Murder Robbery


Sexual Assault Sexual Offenses Stolen Property Weapons Offense Total


CONVICTED CRIMINAL


792


62,231 14,301 56,533 15,979 155


18,234 1,367 2,663


13,099 10,031 15,811 9,461 2,508 13,423


236, 588 20 NEWSMAX | FEBRUARY 2025


Billion


Staggering cost of crime by illegal immigrants.


and keep track of the lawless migrants that President Donald Trump has vowed to deport. A RealClearInvestigations (RCI)


analysis suggests that crime by illegal aliens who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration before July 21, 2024, cost about $166.5 billion. ICE reports that it released into


this country 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories, 435,719 with crimi- nal convictions in their home coun- tries, and another 226,847 with pending criminal charges. In a July 21 letter to Rep. Tony Gon-


zales of Texas, ICE reported that 13,099 of these non-detained individuals have convictions for homicide, with 1,845 facing criminal homicide charges. Another 9,461 have convictions for sex offenses (not including assault or


PENDING CHARGES


177


42,915 3,266 13,846 5,127 222


12,397 1,186 1,189 1,845 2,039 4,250 2,659 1,593 3,397


96,108 DIRECT


COST OF CRIME $44,132 $52,148 $4,057 $13,090 $2,648 $573


$5,578 $2,347 $11,267


$10,294,610 $39,609 $212,504 $83,023 $12,154 $4,805


TOTAL COST OF CRIME


$42,764,092


$5,483,179,895 $71,270,197 $921,235,070 $55,896,497 $215,931


$170,858,493 $5,990,640 $43,399,945


$153,842,655,128 $478,086,062 $4,263,048,361 $1,006,240,093 $49,845,112 $80,824,305


$166,515,509,820 SOURCE: The Costs of Crime and Justice by Mark A. Cohen, New York: Routledge. 2nd Edition 2020


commercialized sex), and 2,659 face pending charges. The figures only list the most serious


crime committed by each individual. A murderer, for example, who also com- mitted a sex offense is only counted as a murderer. Using tools developed by the


National Institute of Justice (NIJ), RCI estimated the likely bare minimum eco- nomic costs of illegal alien crime. It assumed that each of the 662,566 “non-detained” noncitizen offenders on ICE’s list committed just once in the U.S. the crime for which they have been previously accused. The NIJ only calculated the cost to


victims for eight types of crime. But Mark Cohen, a professor at Vanderbilt University who coauthored the original NIJ report, updated the list with 15 cat- egories also reported by ICE: murder, sexual assault, sexual offenses, robbery, assault, arson, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, weapon offenses, drugs, fraud, liquor offenses, gambling, and stolen property. These numbers provide estimates


for the physical and emotional damage from child abuse, drunk driving, and vandalism — including medical care/ ambulances, mental health care, police/ fire service costs, social/victim services, property loss/damage, reduced produc- tivity (at work, home, and school), and nonmonetary losses (fear, pain, suffer- ing, and lost quality of life). Murders account for more than


$153.8 billion of the $166.5 billion in esti- mated criminal victimization costs, and an additional $5.3 billion comes from sexual assaults and sexual offenses.


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