Posted on 09/29/2016 8:15:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Since this author is an idiot setting up straw men arguments I quit reading
Illegals don’t have to create the most crime.
Just some crime to be an argument against them.
By definition the first decision an illegal immigrant makes upon entering the country is to break our immigration laws. So sick of our “betters” acting as if breaking our immigration laws is not a crime.
BS. The nightly crime report in any Southern California city/town is almost exclusively immigrants (illegal)
what a strawman!
it’s not who commits the most crime - it’s not a contest
The point is, hispanics, male and female, comprise the second highest population in our prisons and they’re not there for shoplifting:
“According to a 2009 report by the Pew Hispanic Center, in 2007 Latinos “accounted for 40% of all sentenced federal offenders-more than triple their share (13%) of the total U.S. adult population”. This was an increase from 24% in 1991. 72% of the Latino offenders were not U.S. citizens.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States#Hispanics
more:
2010 Incarceration rates per 100,000, males: blacks 4347, hispanics 1,775, whites 678
females: blacks 260, hispanics 133, whites 91
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#Ethnicity
Sheesh what a stupid author
I’ve been getting a lot of unsolicited phone calls and junk mail. It’s been taking up a lot of my time. Anyone know where I can get one of those monkeys that answers your phone for you, can be trained to star 60? And open letters, file bills and toss junk? A monkey or a libertarian.
There’s that one little piece that just screws up the whole statistic. So they just leave it out.
Wow. Sad. I used to respect Cato. This author, well, if he went to college he should try to get his money back.
Ok, as a percentage of the population what is immigrant crime levels?
I know blacks males between 14-34 make over half of all crime according to Obama’s Justice Department, but what are the other numbers?
CATO Institute wackjob proving that they are the loony libertarians of US politics.
Just read the Wash. Post crime reports daily and you will see that a tremendous amount of crime in the DC/Md and No. Va areas are committed by Hispanics, legal and illegal.
And the idea that just by being here immigrants lower the crime statistics is as stupid a conclusion as I have seen in many decades.
Being here illegal is a crime so the statistics on that issue alone are staggering - in the millions.
Latin American drug cartels are usually made up of illegal immigrants and foreign nationals, not too many native born Americans. So you have a whole section of the drug-trafficking crime industry made up of illegals and foreigners. That is a subset of crime statistics that is staggering as compared to drug cartels from the Amish, Jews, Scandinavians, and Irish Americans (Literally known that I know of).
some people have way too much time on their hands and nothing in their heads.
I’ve seen a lot of hand waving arguments, but this double combination bank shot into a corner pocket takes the cake.
The rate does not matter. Every crime committed by an illegal immigrant is a crime that would not have occurred if the illegal immigrant was not here.
Now you can make the argument that the creation of a permanent shadow underclass of marginalized sub-minimum wage workers who do not have the protection of the law is a good thing. You can make the argument that the existence of a large pool of quasi-slave second-class citizens benefits society, and that this benefit outweighs the excess crime. But if you did, you would be a dumb-ass libertarian who has lost touch with reality.
Proves the irrelevance and dishonesty of the Cato Institute. Trump has repeatedly said ILLEGALS. Libertarians want their open borders.
Trump: “All catchers wear catcher’s mitts”
CATO: “Cricket players catch the ball bare-handed”
Did he say “more” crime? Or did he just point to instances of heinous murder and other crimes?
Shove it Cato.
Actually, they ALL commit crimes - every one of them, without any exceptions at all.
They’re here ILLEGALLY, which is, in itself, a crime - something which no one seems quite willing to acknowledge.
“Undocumented Immigrants” have a 100% crime rate.
Why allow black market skittles containing only a few poisonous ones per bag into the country at all?
Yeah, right. Wink, wink.
http://www.cato.org/people/david-bier
David J. Bier is an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He is an expert on visa reform, border security, and interior enforcement, and his work has been cited in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Politico, and many other print and online publications.
From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Bier drafted immigration legislation as senior policy advisor for Congressman Raúl Labrador, a member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. Previously, he worked as the immigration policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and most recently as the director of immigration policy at the Niskanen Center.
Mr. Bier has a B.A. in political science from Grove City College in Pennsylvania.
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