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I am saying that there is long established data on crime rates, including crime rate among hispanics. The crime rate for Hispanics has not changed. To make sure that you don't think that I am less than forthight, let me say that, generally, the hispanic crime rate is higher than that of whites, but lower than blacks. This relative position has been true thru-out the time that stats have been kept. More inportant, the hispanic crime rate has not changed/risen with the influx of illegal hispanics.

And yes there is a differentiation between illegal aliens who are here to pick peaches and illegal aliens who are here to commit crime. This is not to say that some peach pickers don't commit crime. The peach picker crime rate is no where near the crime rate of illegals who enter the country to commit crime.

There is a move to give legal status to the illegals, though we don't know if or when that will happen. Nor do we know which of the competing proposals might be approved. But none of them will give legal status to those illegals who are here for crime. Anyone who thinks that law abiding illegals should be denied legal status because a certain percentage of the illegals are criminals is spitting in the wind. Anyone who thinks that, since there are criminal illegals, all illegals are criminal is in for a rude awakening.

In fact, it is universally accepted that giving legal status to the illegals will make it much more difficult for the criminal aliens to exist.

You may think that it is significant that Mexicans are involved in the drug trade, most don't. In fact Mexico just recently passed Columbia as the #1 supplier.

You could wipe Mexico, and Mexicans, off the face of the earth but the drugs would only come from elsewhere.

The issue is not supply, it is demand.

"The peach picker crime rate is no where near the crime rate of illegals who enter the country to commit crime. "

Now this is a peach!

Put a different way "The crime rate among non-felons is much lower than it is among felons."

Now that really is a basic fact of law enforcement.