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Every illegal immigrant is, by definition, a criminal.

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The question that interests the public is whether migrants make the streets less safe. In addressing this question, you don't want to count illegal migration as a crime.

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Negative externalities of illegal immigration are not restricted to street crimes. There is downward pressure on wages, housing shortfalls, financial burdens on local and regional governments, cultural impact from lack of assimilation. Not to mention, they were willing to disregard our laws and commit crimes in coming here, which shows a fundamental disrespect for rule of law and order. Every dollar spent on an illegal immigrant is a dollar not spent on a citizen. Citizens are more important than criminal trespassers.

It's horribly disingenuous to claim that an illegal immigrant is a neutral actor just because he isn't mugging people in the streets. That is only one of a number of legitimate concerns.

At the end of the day, a peoples are perfectly within their rights to determine who enters their polity, and who is excluded. That is a fundamental right every nation-state has claimed since the dawn of civilization.

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The criminality of illegal immigrants ranges in severity from house guests who have overstayed their welcome to uninvited party crashers. It stands to reason that anyone who's residency is tenuous would avoid committing more significant crimes and drawing attention to themselves.

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"There is much debate about why the Haitians have arrived"

Is there? Most people well understand that, compared to the US, Haiti is a hell hole. A better question is, how did they get here? The answer, in part, is that the US government is flying them here.

https://homeland.house.gov/2024/04/30/new-documents-reveal-airports-used-by-secretary-mayorkas-to-fly-hundreds-of-thousands-of-inadmissible-aliens-into-u-s-via-chnv-mass-parole-scheme/

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Any updates since 2017 though? What does more recent data say

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I’m very wary of black crime, but it appears that Haitian immigrants, whether legal or illegal, thankfully don’t appear to be much of a problem in regards to this. Hopefully this is still true of their US-born descendants.

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You continue to use “native” instead of “white”.

We understand that African Americans commit an incredible amount of crime. Adding a second no go zone to a city doesn’t increase the livable space.

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Good post. Do we have the data for other nations? Which nations have the highest?

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