Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration
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Crime is increased by poverty most of all. Take care of poverty and crime will plummet.
Poverty even explains a big chunk of white collar crime. It's so traumatic that those who experience it carry its effects with them even when they make a ton of money and are no longer impoverished. If they never go to therapy to heal, they keep reacting to the world as if they are still living in poverty. To us this looks like greed.
Makes sense. If you’re driving a car with expired registration the last thing you want is to get pulled over.
Same goes if you’re in the country illegally: You avoid committing crimes so you don’t get caught and potentially deported.
Yep, the fact that immigrants commit less crime than native-born citizens has been known since Herbert Hoover established the Wickersham Commission in 1929. What makes this study uniquely important is its methodology.
Bullshit. I've seen atrocious crimes due to unauthorized immigration - crimes by the ICE organization against people assigned this label. I hope to see justice soon.
"My feelings don't care about the facts"
“Yeah, but there was this one guy in the news who murdered someone. They’re all like that.”
Further proof that open borders is the way to go.
And free balloons!
Do they float?
“We all float down here.”
Only when you fill them with the right kind of gas.
I thought data already showed that undocumented tend to do less crime. Which would make sense if you are trying to keep a low profile anyway...
No fucking shit. You think anybody who is in the country illegally is going to draw attention to themselves by committing crimes?
FWIW I've known multiple people who admitted to being in the country illegally, and they were wonderful, normal, working people. I've also personally been through the US immigration system from a strictly legal standpoint and it's no picnic, and no wonder people want to cut corners. It was always surprising to me how many upstanding christian, tax paying, public servant working people would say things like "just fly your fiance to mexico and bring her over with you" as if comitting a felony was the common sense answer to a deffective immigration system.
So…crime is created by material conditions, not by someone’s ethnicity.
Wrong facts! Wrong facts!!!!! Reeeeeeeee
Honestly, it might even be lower
Pffft. “Science”. Don’t they know this criminal, cruel, and incompetent “police” force are driven by a truly fucked up ‘belief’ in Jesus?! Oh and money.
Both of which have trumped science for the better part of a decade. Sorry for the pun and the dystopian quality of the zeitgeist.
Odd, it should have a negative association.
Why put efforts in a study like this. As if it would convince anyone who has got a strong opinion on this topic.
You’re right, we should stop conducting scientific research because some morons might not believe the findings.
Here’s a different study (about Medicare for all) that just so happened to be posted at the same time I posted this article. I notice you haven’t spread your cynical anti-science nonsense in that thread yet, so have at it.
Because without research, we won’t know the truth.
If I say the sky is blue, and you say the sky is red, and no one goes out to look… we won’t know who’s right.
When someone goes out to look, one of is right and the other is wrong.
The study found that republicans are wrong.
Unauthorized immigration is a crime.
Entering into the US illegally is a misdemeanour, not a felony.
Chance of a 1hr old account trotting out anti-immigrant talking points not being a troll: 0%
1995 called, they need you to hack the Gibson over dial-up.
So you agree. It's a crime.
Looks at 4th wall He even threw in the word illegally!
But you want to split hairs over the severity?
I’m just pointing out that the severity makes it a nothing burger.
Also, not all illegal things are crimes. For instance, overstaying your visa is a civil violation, not a crime.
If you want to troll, at least get your basic facts right.
There are no laws, we made the whole thing up
Ahem, there are laws, but only when they apply to you and not me.
Borders are a crime
Y’know I remember from my libertarian days that this was the exact platform in immigration. Borders and anti-immigration measures were antithetical to a small-government, free-market society.
Ironic how so many self-labeled right-wing “libertarians” and “anarcho-capitalists” reversed their position when MAGA emerged.
So how far do you want to take that argument?
Should we have our private property respected?
Should a home invasion be illegal?
How about personal boundaries(or borders)?
Hmmm? 🤔
If boundaries themselves are inherently illegitimate, what principle tells us which ones we should respect and which ones we shouldn't?
Oooh slippery slope fallacy, gotta love it!
Aww, the tool bitches out. Womp womp
Not engaging in piss poor arguments is bitching out hahahaha
A small one.
How does that impact you, exactly?
How does it impact me personally? That's not really relevant to whether entering the country illegally is, in fact, illegal. We don't generally decide which laws matter based on whether I personally know the person committing the offense.
So if your friend downloaded a movie from a torrent site you would turn them in?
So you're one of those people who thinks all crimes are equal? If it's illegal, it's illegal, period, doesn't matter if it's moral or not?
Okay, do you care that the president of the Untied States has committed hundreds of crimes and gotten away with them?