Mass illegal immigration is bad for America, no matter who the immigrants are or how many crimes they commit.
This week, Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy argued on the Senate floor that actually, you're "Statistically safer" living in an immigrant neighborhood because immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than native-born Americans.
"But immigrants commit crimes in this country at a rate lower than natural-born citizens. You may not believe that but I hate to tell you, it is the truth."
Setting aside whether we should increase or decrease the number of legal immigrants, or whether legal immigration is a net positive for the country, there's no question that 100 percent of illegal immigrants commit crimes.
A 2023 Stanford study found that since 1960, immigrants have been less likely to be incarcerated than those born in the U.S. and that immigrants haven't committed more crimes than the native-born population since 1870.
Let's posit for the sake of argument that Murphy is right, that immigrants - legal and illegal - commit fewer crimes than the native-born U.S. population.
Understood in that light, why should we care whether immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the native-born? Even if every illegal immigrant who sneaks over the border is a doctor or a scientist or a hard-working entrepreneur who just wants to come to America for a better life, at this point I don't care.
So the next time schoolmarmish politicians like Murphy scold us about being inferior to immigrants because we're more likely to commit crimes, the proper response should be: I don't care.
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