Just another reason why our disastrous refugee system needs to be overhauled. Just like in Canada, these people do not belong here. Although, I doubt we’ll be seeing fewer of them in the years to come, which makes horrific crimes like this one more likely in the future.

Hat Tip: Urban Infidel.

When the subject of illegal Palestinians living inside of Israel is broached, we more often than not view it through the prism of  terrorism directed against the Jewish state. Considering the collaboration between Israeli Arabs and Islamic terrorist organizations in the region, such as Hamas or Hezbollah, that’s not an altogether baseless concern.

We’ve also been told countless times of the alleged plight of Palestinians working inside of Israel illegally, often within the context of a broader condemnation of Israel’s construction of homes for citizens living on the West Bank.

What’s less frequently discussed are the problems posed by the large sub-population of Palestinian illegal aliens living within Israel on a daily basis. The gravity of this problem though was made apparent recently when an eleven year-old Israeli boy was habitually raped and tortured at the hands of four Palestinian men. As gruesome as this crime is, it reflects the enormous problems you invite into your country when you sanction the presence of hundreds of thousands-or in our country’s case, millions-of illegal aliens. Peruse New York tabloids from the past decade and you will find hundreds of criminal incidents that illegal aliens lie at the heart of, including one of the most notable cases, the brutal murder of acclaimed actress/director Adrienne Shelly by a nineteen year-old IA from Ecuador.

Nations can continue to ignore this problem-in order to reap the dubious benefits of access to a cheap supply of labor-or they can grapple with the enormous human cost of illegal immigration. As last week’s horrific revelations in Israel demonstrate, this is a problem that all Western nations must face, even if they are reluctant to do so.

Yet another horrific crime committed by an illegal alien is sanitized by the mainstream media. As if the rape of a twelve year-old girl were not outrageous enough, the coverage that the Long Island Press has given to to this crime is enough to make your blood boil.

Instead of highlighting the relevant portion of this story, i.e. that Juan Carlos Amaya entered this country from El Salvador illegally, and that the U.S. government did absolutely nothing to deport him in the many years that he was living on Long Island, the reporter chose to describe this young girl’s attacker as a church youth group leader.

One of the reasons we’ve had such a difficult time deporting these criminals in the first place is because of the indifference of the mainstream media, which has steadfastly refused to highlight the incomprehensible human cost of illegal immigration. The journalists who cover this issue in such a blase manner, praising the work of people who are breaking this nation’s laws, are unwitting accomplices in the crimes they commit while they evade law enforcement’s reach in plain sight.

Until our elite opinion-makers and government officials start to take the crimes of illegal aliens seriously, we will continue to hear of tragic, barbaric events like the one that was just uncovered on Long Island. And we will continue to lament the lack of protection our federal government provides to those of us who are American citizens and who abide by the law.

The problem with detaining only those illegal aliens convicted of sex crimes, a policy ICE has pursued under both President Bush and President Obama, is that it means hundreds of potential rapists and sex criminals go unmolested by law enforcement agencies until they commit a heinous crime. The fact that they will eventually be punished for their crimes is of little comfort to their victims. On the other hand, if we pursue a more sensible policy of deporting criminal aliens who are in this country illegally, we won’t have to worry about how many more victims these heinous individuals will create as they brazenly flout our legal system.

It’s time to put an end to this selective enforcement before it claims the innocence of more young girls and gives more opportunities for mayhem to monsters like Juan Carlos Amaya.

As many of you might remember, one of the issues that occupied a brief portion of the media cycle during 2008′s presidential election was the status of one of Barack Obama’s Kenyan relatives who happened to live in the United States. For better or worse, Aunt Zeituni has returned to the public spotlight. As much as I would like to impute underhanded motives to the  people who granted this woman permanent residency-at the very least, it merits further investigation-the truth is that the immigration law in this country is such a complete muddle that it’s not inconceivable that this would have been the outcome of a similar case not involving a distant relation of the POTUS.

But rather than explore the inherent absurdities of a system that would allow an infirm, unemployed woman who made illegal contributions to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, who received disability payments for which she was ineligible, and whose shelter is being furnished at the expense of American taxpayers, to remain in this country indefinitely, I want to look at the assertion by Aunt Zeituni that she has been exploited by this system.

At first glance, considering all of the benefits the United States-a nation that all would agree is preferable to the horrible, third world country  she fled-has extended to Zeituni Onyango, her assertion that she has been exploited would appear to be the height of ingratitude and arrogance. Well, as surprising as this opinion might seem, I think she might have a valid point.

After all, what did Aunt Zeituni do, except take advantage of every opportunity that was presented to her? She was allowed to live-and was paid a small stipend-by the federal government which also ordered her deportation, a seeming contradiction that must have given her even more reason to believe that what she was doing, i.e. breaking the law, was correct. But even if she realized the import of her actions, what was to stop her from taking advantage of a slew of benefits the American taxpayer extended to her? Wouldn’t she have been foolish not to enjoy the bounty she was given, rightfully or not, once she fled her native homeland?

Don’t we all have a side, even if we’re loathe to admit so, that wants something for nothing? A part of us that loves receiving a reward, even if it’s unearned? There are millions of rent-controlled and rent stabilized apartment buildings in New York, and goodness knows, you don’t need to be an ardent anti-capitalist to enjoy the inherent benefits of living in one of those units. Just as you needn’t have been a white supremacist to have enjoyed the racial classfication under Apartheid that came with being a white South African in the pre-Mandela era.

Granted, the characterization of illegals as benign, put-upon laborers trying to provide for their families, an obnoxious cliche perpetuated by open borders apologists like Tamar Jacoby and the disciples of Robert Bartley at the Wall Street Journal editorial page, is far from the truth. Many of these individuals are an exigent threat to the health and well being of Americans. However, the vast majority of them are simply different versions of Aunt Zeituni, i.e. people who come here to exploit the opportunities and collect the benefits that come from living in the United States.

See, the problem isn’t Zeituni Onyango. The problem, to paraphrase the great cartoonist Walter Kelly, is us! We are the ones that gave people like President Obama’s Kenyan aunt the impression that our immigration system was established to help individuals like her, and not for the benefit of Americans. Perhaps the accusation that we have exploited her is a bit much, but I honestly think she hits the mark closer than many so-called experts on the immigration issue.

Until countries like America and Canada pull up the welcome mat, illegal aliens will continue to believe that they are welcome.