Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎"Between 2012 and 2018, compared with their U.S.-born neighbors, undocumented immigrants in Texas were less than half as likely to be arrested for violent crimes or drug offenses and less than a quarter as likely to be arrested for property crimes."
drself@austinkocher Because they are close to the border and if they screw, they will be sent packing. How to the stats hold for NY and Chicago?
Peter“'The longer [immigrants] reside in the United States, the more they adapt to American society, and the more likely their arrest rates resemble those of the native-born,' says Ramiro Martinez, Jr., a quantitative criminologist at Northeastern University."
"After the federal government introduced the Secure Communities program ... deportations increased, but crime did not drop."
"... when California became a sanctuary state in 2017—limiting state and local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities—crime rates did not rise."
While, as the researchers state, the data is neither perfect nor complete, it points to immigrants not being the problem but those born in America society feeling like the law is more of a suggestion than, you know, the law.
@PeterLG @austinkocher They are law breakers by coming through the borders, treat as such. If I tried to get into the US with a passport, I'd be detained and/or arrested. And I'm a citizen. Because the Democrats want an open border to gain votes and control they will not arrest them even when the commit crimes.
And by adapting, you mean turning sanctuary cities into lawless hell holes, like the country the left, you are with blind or a fool.
And by adapting, you mean turning sanctuary cities into lawless hell holes, like the country the left, you are with blind or a fool.
Garbage. You do realise that the border legislation, that the Republicans demanded and then tanked, would have slammed the border shut if more than 5,000 people sought asylum in the USA across the US/Mexico border? It was tougher legislation than anything ever proposed by Trump. Yet here we are.
Also, undocumented immigrants cannot vote; that's restricted to citizens. Anyone becoming a citizen has behaved themselves since entry; hardly a lifetime criminal.
Again: the studies ALL show that American citizens commit more crime per capita than undocumented immigrants. Perhaps consider the reasons for that.
PS. Just because someone crosses your border, they are not automatically a law breaker. Read up on the Bill of Rights and the UN Human Rights rules.