Lisa (She/Her)Why do people hate my opinion so much?
jordanlundHere’s the problem…
Let’s say you are from a war torn, 3rd world country, with gangs and crime and all that, feel your life is threatened and want to claim asylum in the United States.
There is no process to do that legally in your home country. There is no process to do that legally at the border.
The only option you have is to cross without documentation, then claim asylum once you are already here. But as ICE has proven, they don’t care about any of that.
I hate ICE, too, we need to definitely change the border laws though and keep the criminals from coming in
That’s the thing:
The vast majority of people coming here are not “criminals”. Undocumented, yes, but that’s only because our system requires that before they can claim asylum.
On average, the US sees between 2 and 3 million immigrants a year.
Now here are the arrest stats:
www.cbp.gov/newsroom/…/criminal-alien-statistics
Even 2024 with a peak of 17,000 criminal arrests, out of 2 million immigrants is less than 1%.
You want to change the laws to prevent something that is, statistically, so low it doesn’t really happen.
MagicShelThe arrest rate of immigrants is less than 1%??? That incidence of crime is so much lower than American citizens we are effectively importing a lower crime rate.
OP, I implore you to go look them up for yourself. The thing you’re worried about is going to blow your mind how wrong you are.
Less than 1% of those coming in are actual criminals, it’s not counting the existing immigrant population, which is slightly higher, but still far lower than the domestic population.