There is an uncontrollable reflex in politics to seize on immigration status when someone commits a violent crime.
Leftists generally downplay crimes by immigrants, while the Right generally puts immigration status front and center to drive home the need for enforcement.
It is important to dissect the meaning of immigration status in connection with violent crime.
Simply stated, immigration status in violent crimes is relevant chiefly if the perpetrator is unlawfully present, because those crimes are preventable.
So how can anyone say that immigration status is relevant? If others do it too, and immigrant status doesn't make one inherently bad, then why talk about it at all?
Their underlying decision to break our law is what jeopardizes their status here, and while it may seem unfair to sweep them up during a push caused by egregious crimes, it is no less legitimate to deport them before or after such high profile crimes.
Taking immigration status and violent crime into account is common sense.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/24/of-course-immigration-status-is-relevant-but-its-not-a-license-to-discriminate/
Leftists generally downplay crimes by immigrants, while the Right generally puts immigration status front and center to drive home the need for enforcement.
It is important to dissect the meaning of immigration status in connection with violent crime.
Simply stated, immigration status in violent crimes is relevant chiefly if the perpetrator is unlawfully present, because those crimes are preventable.
So how can anyone say that immigration status is relevant? If others do it too, and immigrant status doesn't make one inherently bad, then why talk about it at all?
Their underlying decision to break our law is what jeopardizes their status here, and while it may seem unfair to sweep them up during a push caused by egregious crimes, it is no less legitimate to deport them before or after such high profile crimes.
Taking immigration status and violent crime into account is common sense.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/24/of-course-immigration-status-is-relevant-but-its-not-a-license-to-discriminate/
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