Posted on 09/29/2016 8:15:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
1. They don’t address ILLEGAL immigrants, who already ARE criminals for being here at all; 2. Incarceration rates don’t show the true picture because so many are caught and released, or deported, or jump back across the border, and never convicted; 3. WTF is CATO, of all places, attacking Trump for? How could THEY possibly want Hillary? Is EVERYONE sold out?!
'At a Cabinet meeting today, Attorney General William P. Barr said nearly one-third of the first 6,000 riot suspects arrested and processed through the court system were illegal aliens, according to a senior administration offical. Barr has not proposed any special effort to have them deported, a Justice Department spokesman said.'
So Cato cherry-picks Buffalo and two students as “proof” applied nationally to an issue which it has a vested interest?
Got it
I guess possibly the majority 47 states, but somehow doubt the people in border states like Texas, Arizona and California would agree with the author, even if the people do.... the crime statistics dont.
Great analogy
This is so frikkin’ stupid!
If they weren’t here then we would never have to even worry about them committing any crimes in the first place. Then there would definitely be less crime.
They’ve already committed enough crime when they illegally stepped foot on American soil.
I presume Cato is more partial to Gary Johnson.
Illegal immigrants are all committing crimes, without exceptions.
They are illegally in another country.
Also, every crime committed by an illegal is a crime that would not have been committed by an illegal.
It’s simple logic. Also, Donald Trump did not say this about “immigrants,” but of illegals.
Get your head out, Cato.
What part of ILLEGAL do they not understand?
The mere act of being here illegally is a crime.
Aren’t ILLEGAL immigrants committing a crime by default? They’re here ILLEGALLY ... These morons are the ones lying when they use the blanket victim group “immigrants” when we mean “ILLEGAL” immigrants.
100% of illegals commit at least one crime. We have allowed the Left to control the dialogue too long, separating or conflating illegals and legals to suit the point they wish to make.
To clarify:
“Also, every crime committed by an illegal is a crime that would not have been committed by an illegal if that person was not here.”
Somehow this nitwit is equating someone like a friend of mine, a legal immigrant and civil engineer, with a MS-13 tattooed gang who sneaks across the border.
They are, in his eyes, part of EXACTLY the same pool.
So since she is quite law abiding that means he will be as well.
This is, of course, nonsense.
Rosanna Rosanna Dana but without the nevermind...illegal immigrants are criminals 100% of the time. Legal immigrants had nothing to do with what he said.
Now when you are talking illegal aliens and what are quaintly termed "refugees" you are undoubtedly right.
ILLEGAL ALIENS kill and main thousands of CITIZENS and LEGAL IMMIGRANTS every g-d damned YEAR!
AND it is all PREVENTABLE!
Of course we can't use the "If we can save just one life" argument that libs use all the TIME to try to take our guns....
95% of the outstanding murder warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. 95% !!!!!!
David Bier has been drinking too much beer.
David Bier’s an idiot... First we’re talking about illegals... NOT immigrants.
Second, ANY crime they commit is one more than would have been committed if they had stayed in their home country.
The left is always so cute with their straw man arguments against Trump. Trump never at any time claimed that immigrants commit more crimes. We have far too many propagandists out there, even (especially?) ones posing as intellectuals.
The relevant point about illegal immigration is that zero of the many crimes illegals have committed in this country would have happened had the laws only been enforced. Over 25,000 illegals have been convicted of homicide in this country. Those people would not have died, except for the policies of the left and the open-borders Republicans. They have a lot of blood on their hands.
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