Illegal immigration is believed to increase crime

The Obama administration calls the Arizona’s new immigration law unconstitutional because it empowers police officers to ask for the ID anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally.

The Justice Department lawyers of Arizona asked on Thursday a federal judge from Phoenix to block the new law conceived by the Obama administration before it takes effect next Thursday. Sgt. Robert Krygier says that they patrol for people crossing the border illegally from Mexico and that many of the guys that try to enter the United States have warrants for their arrests or have already been deported once. The public is also enraged by the murder of rancher Robert Krentz, who has been killed by a man that crossed the border illegally from Mexico. Arizona governor Jan Brewer blames the Mexicans from crossing the border along with the drug cartel-style violence, and says that there have been found beheaded bodies in the desert, buried or just left out there.

They oppose the new law because they have reported that the violence decreased in the last years: from 2000 to 2009, San Diego violent crime decreased by 17 percent, El Paso, Texas violent crime decreased 36 percent and Phoenix violent crime decreased by 10 percent. This is mainly because 33,000 agents patrol today, compared to the 1,500 that were there a decade ago and still thousands of immigrants and smugglers still cross the border illegally into Arizona every day. Illegal immigrants have become seven percent of Arizona’s population, and 15 percent of the Arizona prison population, most of them being incarcerated for drug related charges or murder.