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originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: chr0naut
The crime rate among migrants is lower than the crime rates among American citizens. One would be diluting the American citizen's crime rate by introducing a population with a lower crime rate.
Depends entirely on the study and, in regards to what you're citing, it hinges on an incarceration rate while studies which refute the idea that immigrants commit fewer crimes hinge on actual conviction rate. This country does not incarcerate many of the illegals it convicts, sending many of them back via deportation rather than imprisoning them, so the comparisons are apples to oranges.
papers.ssrn.com...
Undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes and serve 10.5% longer sentences, more likely to be classified as dangerous, and 45% more likely to be gang members than U.S. citizens. Yet, there are several reasons that these numbers are likely to underestimate the share of crime committed by undocumented immigrants. There are dramatic differences between in the criminal histories of convicts who are U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants.
Build the GD wall and build it as high as structurally feasible.
originally posted by: chr0naut
Have you considered that the drug lords who aren't already living stateside will fly over the wall in their private 'planes, or travel around it in their yachts? ... and they'll offer lifts to their henchmen, too.
originally posted by: Breakthestreak
a reply to: chr0naut
But ‘statistically’ it’s maori and Pacific Islanders who commit the VAAAAAAST majority of crime in New Zealand. Surely importing MASS numbers of eastern asians and white Europeans would drastically reduce the nz crime rate.
Oh that’s right “statistics are manipulated”.