Quote by patokl
What you and most people, reading these statistics do not realise, is that unlike native-born people, immigrants who come in contact with the criminal justice system, for instance because of a misdemeanor, are very likely to end up incarcerated for an undetermined period, before being deported and barred from returning. The ones who are rounded up by ICE are also incarcerated, until they can be deported. When you subtract those numbers from your statistics, they change significantly.
In fact, more than a century of studies have confirmed that immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes or be behind bars than the native-born, and that high rates of immigration are associated with lower rates of violent crime and property crime. This holds true for both legal immigrants and the unauthorized, regardless of their country of origin or level of education. In other words, the overwhelming majority of immigrants are not “criminals” by any commonly accepted definition of the term.
(Yes, I've copied and pasted some too)
More about that (just a few of many):
- https://www.cato.org/blog/immigration-crime-what-research-says
- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/fact-check-immigration-doesnt-bring-crime-u-s-data-say/
- https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminalization-immigration-united-states?utm_content=buffercf974&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
- https://www.policefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Appendix-D_0.pdf
Well said and well documented. Simply citing meaningless statistics without looking into those numbers leads to so many false conclusions, the least f which is the perception that we have an immigration crime epidemic in this country. We do not. It's alt-right propaganda to normalize the persecution of a minority group. Any of us could copy and paste a whole host of numbers and opinions from Wikipedia or anywhere else on the internet and then use them to back up either side of an argument. Where the Sundance Kid loses everyone is his holier than thou attitude and his outright condescension and belittling of anyone who dares disagree. Funny how all the alt-right trolls display that same attitude. It's almost as if they're engaging defense mechanisms as part of their arguments.