WE should protect our borders better and we should also have a limited thouroughly screened amount of people come into this country to gain citizenship, it's what America has always done. Getting rid of "mexicans" will not end gang violence or stop murder. The reason these people rank higher on the list of Most Wanted and outstanding warrants is because they are hiding, they are illegal aliens, do you expect to show up on a court warrant??

Here are some facts about murder in America and race from the FBI: (national Statistics)
"Supplemental homicide data revealed that 90.3 percent of murder offenders were male, and 91.7 percent were over the age of 18. Of the incidents in which the race of the offender was known, 50.3 percent of the offenders were black, 47.2 percent were white, and 2.5 percent were of other races."

Other facts:(from LA County)
"In LA County, the highest number of gun deaths in 2000 by race were Latinos (473), followed by African Americans (341) and Caucasians (305). The firearm death rate in 2000 was highest for African Americans (40.6 per 100,000
- California Dept of Vital Statistics, 2000 "

More Facts:(from LA County)
"The victims and offenders of most violence in Los Angeles County are of the same race/ethnicity
- Billie Weiss, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services "

More Facts: (From LA County)

"The overall homicide rate per 100,000 population was 14.0, with a much higher rate for African-Americans (40.4 per 100,000) and Hispanics (18.7 per 100,000) than Caucasians (4.0 per 100,000) or Asians (3.4 per 100,000). African-American males were at very high risk for homicide (73.3 per 100,000), and in the age group 15 to 34 years, this problem reaches epidemic proportions (164.2 per 100,000)."

Those numbers JLH posted are purposely misleading to make it appear that Latinos are responsible for most of the homicides in LA County, which is completely false. They are only resposible for more gun deaths in LA county.