Are illegal immigrants victims or offenders of cruel violence in the US?

They are more likely victims than predators. The media prefers to report the stories of illegal aliens as criminals. In reality illegal aliens are victimized on a regular basis. People tend to abuse and con them because they know they would be fearful of going to law enforcement, for fear of being deported. One example; a man marries an illegal alien, he then begins to physically and verbally abuse her. He tells her he will turn her in if she gets out of line. For fear of being arrested and deported she gives in to him. This is a common scenario. Some may say an illegal alien is automatically a criminal just for entering illegally, but the majority of them stay out of trouble for the most part.

The answer to your question is that they are both. That said by definition they are all criminals and most have committed multiple crimes. The U.S. government has failed to do its job to protect its citizens from foreign threats by looking the other way because a few may actually make gain on this illegal activity. By far the U.S. citizen has paid a high price for a few to make large gains. Since 9-11-2001 over 50,000 good citizens have been killed by illegals. There is no way of knowing how many illegals have been killed at the hands of ruthless coyotes in that same time period. The simple fact is far to many have been harmed by illegal immigration activity and the only way to get it under control is to control the border and enforce the laws on the books. This also means that U.S. employers must be made to pay the price if they are employing them illegally. Do you realize that as many U.S. citizens have died due to this issue on American homeland as were killed in the Veit Nam war, and they were killed over half the same time period. Where is the outcry, where is the disgust, Where is our Government that is supposed to protect us? If they will not protect us then it is up to us to protect ourselves and you will find that Americans will stand together when it comes to protecting our lives and our families.

come on Man, those guys were involed in the drug trade. they ganked that drug money and made a run for the border.The cartel caught up with them and murdered them"Mexican Drug cartel" style, there's no mystery about who did them in. Most of those guys run to this country because they're running from criminal charges anyways. A corrupt border town like juarez or tijuana poduces corrupt people who sneak into the U.S. to contine their criminal ways. Only now they steal someone else's I.D. so they can be like ghosts and not get caught. Sound right? or are you on the Illegals' side?i have no problem with immigrants as long as they stay honest and don't screw with other people's lives thru I'D theft and other parasitic behavior.

this is like asking: what's the treatment for racism in usa? there is not any treatment, yet some issues ought to help like making racial profiling unlawful in all 50 states and if shown, punishable via regulation. regulation enforcement officers who're caught making use of and abusing racial profiling on the job ought to be despatched to a psychiatrist first to appropriate the priority and then fired in the event that they do no longer provide up. Making that kind of overt racism intollerable will help to treatment racism in usa and in all probability help decrease violence against ALL races, no longer basically Latinos.

They may or may not be violent. That is not the issue.

They broke the law by entering the United States illegally, and by doing so they are criminals. That is the issue.

I'm not familiar with the particular story or nature of these murders. Being an illegal immigrant does make you a criminal, but it doesn't mean you deserve to be beaten, electrocuted, and slashed. Even if you are involved with weapons and narcotics.

In all human groups there are practically any kind of people, but nowadays looks like illegals are rather the victims of a witch hunt, full of hatred against them

You just have to read the answers in this place to see what I mean.

For those that talk so much about legal, illegal:

In the XIX century was illegal to help a slave to escape. I assume that some of you support slavery because doing the contrary was ILLEGAL

Investigators have described the slayings as contract killings carried out by a drug ring over at least $400,000 in missing money.

This means they stole money or drugs from drug dealers! This does not make them poor victims of racial discrimination. Just because they are Mexicans you can not tell me or anyone else that they are victims of racial discrimination!

If you are stupid enough to steal from a drug ring (as these 5 seem to have been) you have to expect things like this to happen regardless of your race, creed, national origin, etc.

You know its funny, they do call illegal immigrants all criminals but really what are they doing? I'm all for the bad seeds getting punished ALL races included but the weird thing is that the immigrants who they are deporting are the ones that are out trying to make a decent living for them and their families, while the REAL criminals are out running the streets, selling drugs, killing people. But i rarely hear the criminals that are truly committing crimes being deported. If they are out minding their own business, trying to better themselves unlike some citizens who can easily be out bettering themselves but DON'T, then you shouldn't care. UNLESS YOU are one of those people who like to blame other people for not doing **** with your life besides producing a bunch of hillbilly children, who will most likely turn out as useless, and say that the immigrants are taking your jobs. C'mon if THEY can get jobs without anything then you can get your lazy-*** up and go get a job yourself. God I hate ignorant people

O and unless you are a NATIVE American then you really shouldn't be so mad about it because if it wasn't for people migrating from different places to the United States then your *** probably wouldn't be here either, in that case everyone besides the Native Americans, are criminals and deserve to be beaten- AND why the hell would people sneak into Mexico like its hard to get in. That was stupid

They are the offenders. More citizens die at the hands of illegals than in the war. 95% of all arrest warrants for murder in Los Angeles alone are for illegal aliens. Does that answer your question?

You should research how Mexico treats people sneaking across its own southern border. Corrupt police and officials force them to pay large bribes, and if they don't have the money, they are beaten, raped, or killed. This is commonplace. I don't see our border patrol doing that. This is Mexican officials doing that, who represent the Mexican government, not just local hot-head yahoos.