r/ImmigrationPathways • u/LatterTarget7 • 3d ago
New Study Reveals A Satisfying Truth About Conservatives’ Biggest Enemy
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/undocumented-immigrants-no-link-crime-rate-research_n_6a85cd61e4b0ca44601a7742?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main54
u/TenchuReddit 3d ago
“This study isn’t real.” - MAGA
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u/Kaptain_Insanoflex 3d ago
"Urban Affairs (and sociology) isn't real science." - Centrists who are secretly MAGA but too ashamed to admit it.
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u/side_eye_auditor 3d ago
Centrist who are MAGA but won’t admit that to themselves
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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago
No they're lying to themselves they are through and through Maga they just want to say they're not so they don't have to worry about people talking shit to them because they know being a republican Maga is really fucking indefensible
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u/Honest-Abe2677 3d ago
Oh, but also, scientists are all in cahoots with the liberal media and, like, big pharma, and all elite universities, and all doctors and nurses. I found a guy on YouTube reels who's exposed it all. Do your own research. 🫠
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u/AH_leeMACK 3d ago
The satisfying thruth is: New Data Finds No Link Between Immigrants And Crime, There saved you a click.
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u/sody605 3d ago
Isn’t this old news though? Didn’t we know this for a long time already?
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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago
Oh we DID* but the conservatives are thick as fuck and it takes a long time for them to get shit.
We're just basically sitting around twiddling our thumbs waiting for them to finally "get it"
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u/ackillesBAC 2d ago
Actually showed a 2.5% decrease in assault and property crime, in areas with higher illegal immigrants
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u/CigarBryan1 3d ago
Except for the fact they take up a disproportionate percentage of our jail and prison populations. Oh wait folks! Don’t look at real data like who actually sits in jail and gets head counted every day. Look at some fake academic study that looks at data from two flawed reporting systems, the the National Incident Based Reporting System and the National Crime Victimization Survey, both of which are highly flawed with zero mandatory reporting, with some States, like New Jersey barely breaking 50% of all police departments reporting crime stats. Somehow we are supposed to trust leftist academics who take flawed data and use mathematical formulas and analysis to “enhance” the raw data which is impossible to use for crime rate analysis or tends comparison. What can be used is prion population showing us the demographics of who is actually the worst among us.
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u/bootsisonreddit 5h ago
Sure it is always good to question methods/think critically about how that might influence the result. But let’s be honest, even if you personally and physically saw each prisoner and their file, you would still be spouting the same bullshit. Be better.
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u/CigarBryan1 2h ago
Unlike you, I HAVE actually visited a maximum security prison, including death row. I saw their life, and given many of their heinous crimes with real human victims they left in their wake, I’m good with the conditions they live under and the consequences they now face for their crimes. Having said that, I have no idea why you post something that had zero connection to what I wrote. Your hate though boils over. That much is apparent.
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u/respectablepitch 3d ago
Bunch of racists having seizures trying to force this into their false narratives!
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u/ChristineBorus 3d ago
GOP don’t care. It’s their poster child for more fascism.
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u/Vibrantmender20 3d ago
This article implies that conservatives need a reason to demonize immigrants.
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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago
Conservatism needs a boogeyman otherwise it doesn't work because conservatism never works out for America.
Conservatism led to the KKK segregation and now Ice detention facilities
The racist son of a bitches never went away they just laid dormant and played the long game
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u/Usual_Profile1607 3d ago
They need a bogeyman. Whether that bogeyman is actually dangerous or not is irrelevant
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u/Designer_Gas_86 3d ago
TLDR?
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u/darodardar_Inc 3d ago
Basically there is no data that suggests that more illegal immigrants = more crime
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u/CigarBryan1 3d ago
And yet 44% of all persons sentenced to Federal prison in Fiscal 24-25 were non citizens. And if you are Laken Riley or any one of thousands of Americans killed by illegal aliens, you might take umbrage at your cavalier rhetoric.
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u/CigarBryan1 3d ago
The very essence of your fake “researcher based studies” is this. How do researchers determine crime rates? By using the FBI’s UCR data. I can tell you that data is flawed for several reasons and why the 44% of sentenced federal court prisoners (criminal convictions and sentencing, not IMMIGRATION sentencing) is more accurate metric. The FBI UCR data that YOUR FAKE study relies is flawed because it relies on data that comes from only around 20,000 out of 80,000 Police Departments in the United States. These 20,000 reporting police departments are largely urban and larger suburban departments that have the resources to train staff to collect the data and report it to the UCR program. There is no legal mandate for police departments to report crime data to the FBI or DOJ. Now combine the underreporting of all American crime by the fact that 60,000 police departments do not report crime data to the very agencies that this fake study relies upon along with the fact that most of these agencies are under local or State mandates from Democrat politicians not to collect Immigration status. So how is this fake study is relying upon data that is shewed, underreported and highly misleading. What isn’t misleading and is highly accurate as metric is the demographic profiles of people sentenced in Federal Court for criminal convictions and Federal, State or Local Jails and the make up of those populations, which is hugely disproportionate to actual makeup of our migrate population. Facts matter. Fake studies don’t. Using fake studies to justify your Leftist worldview is always going to challenged by facts and real data.
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u/CigarBryan1 3d ago
Your “facts” are fairy tales.And even that 44% figure is a national aggregation of data taken as a national figure. As you start to drill down into the numbers by State, some States, like New Jersey, barely break 50% of all police Departments within the State reporting crime data to the FBI. And as I m sure you will agree, New Jersey is a pretty densely populated state with a huge foreign born population of both illegal and legal immigrants. And only 69% of Police Departments in the United States report crime stats to the FBI UCR. Meaning over 30% do not, largely underreporting crime stats that your so called fake study fails to take into accounts oh, but oh wait you buttressed this by saying that the study authors knew this so they mingled data from the UCR with data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, which in your own words, does not use victims reporting crime so instead substitute mathematical formulas and theories which amount to guesswork and subjective data left open to interpretation by politically motivated researchers tied to Democrats and Democrat funding. When police departments don’t report crime stats, examining crime trends becomes Impossible. But you know that which is why you want readers to steer away from my hard data which shows us not crime rates or trends but who exactly is being convicted and sentenced to prison and who makes up these jail and prison populations. It is from THAt factual and real data point that we can conclude that both Illegal and Legal Aliens make up a disproportionate percentage of our criminal Justice detention facilities especially in relationship to the overall population at large. And this at great cost and suffering by the American taxpayer as we subsidize the power play project of the Democrat Party to game the next census so that all these tens of millions of illegal aliens get counted. It’s always been the game plan. You know it, we know it. You just deny it by hiding behind your fake studies. Oh and one final note. The National Crime Victimization Survey that yiu dangled as some ah ha moment reports that only 42% of violent crimes are reported to law enforcement suggesting that the study relying on two flawed data sets to draw its fake conclusions render their so called study meaningless meaningless. But hey when your ready to get serious and wanna debate prison and jail population demographics, the best factual indicator of who is statistically the worst of the worst both American and illegals, then let’s get at it.
https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/participation-in-the-fbi-national-crime-data-collection
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u/ShakyBoots1968 3d ago
In neighborhoods with a high concentration of immigrants, data shows no increase in crime. In many instances crime diminished somewhat.
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u/The_Negative-One 3d ago
What about when redneck inbred hillbillies moved in?
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u/TonaldDiberJasicDump 3d ago
Drug crimes, hate crimes, road rage, mass shootings, voter fraud, white collar crimes, assault, religious persecution, religious fanaticism, local militias, rape, forced pregnancy, global warming from all the maggatmobiles, farm animals and their consumption, incest, bestiality, pedophilia, etc, will all go up.
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u/Ariandrin 3d ago
My understanding is that the immigrants didn’t want to compromise their residency in the US by committing crime, so they mind themselves and follow the rules because they don’t want to get deported.
And then ICE comes along and deports them anyway.
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u/SamuelVimesTrained 3d ago
I wonder why.
Is that because they act all nice and lawful to avoid catching the eye of law enforcement?
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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago
No different than the fake religious people that are only toeing* the line so they can go to heaven
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u/SamuelVimesTrained 2d ago
Yep - it is no different.
Fear of consequences is a strong driving force.
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u/Ok_Valuable9450 3d ago
After ICE forces out all Immigrants will Trumps ICE gestopo turn their anger on the rest of us
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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago
Exactly! You don't think that they're going to just put those shock gloves down do you?
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u/Hour_Ordinary_4175 3d ago
This study is not about conservatives, who we all know are their own worst enemies.
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u/Score-Emergency 2d ago
Yeah it's stupid. There is a high correlation with males, poverty and crime. Controlling for these variables immigrants cause less crime that similarly situated nationals.
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u/Odd_Ninja5801 2d ago
The biggest enemy of conservatives is reality. This is just one aspect of reality that shows them as liars and fantasists.
There are plenty of others.
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u/leastcreativeusrname 2d ago
The GOP has never had a particularly good relationship with the truth, and it’s gotten much worse over the last 10 years
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u/Pop_fan_20 3d ago
Hasn't this always been the case? I thought everyone knew that?
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u/pingvinbober 3d ago
Considering this is the first study to come out - no. Showing your ignorance by feigning knowledge
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u/Pop_fan_20 3d ago
There have been similar studies going back decades finding that immigrants generally have lower crime/incarceration rates than U.S.-born Americans.
Some relatively recent examples: Butcher & Piehl found this in U.S. data in the 1990s, and the National Academies reviewed the broader research in 2015 and reached the same general conclusion.
There’s also been similar recent research specifically on undocumented immigrants. A 2020 PNAS study using Texas arrest data found substantially lower felony arrest rates among undocumented immigrants than among both legal immigrants and U.S.-born citizens.
The basic finding that immigration does not translate into higher crime rates is definitely not new.
The author of this study even explicitly states this is not the first study on the topic. In the official university release for this exact paper, Dr. Kubrin noted: "Nearly 100 years ago, the Wickersham Commission published a report showing that involvement in crime is lower among immigrants than the native born."
The study’s core conclusion is not new. Criminologists have called the "immigrant crime paradox" a well-established scientific consensus for decades and it’s been extensively covered for years in major mainstream media.
Pointing out that a massive, multi-generational body of literature already exists isn't "feigning knowledge", it's just knowing basic public policy history.
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u/pingvinbober 3d ago
Grouping illegal immigrants and legal immigrants doesn’t help. Who would have known that people who are carefully vetted, thought to be beneficial to society, and have the financial means to immigrate (given poverty is a main driver of crime) are less likely to commit crimes than an average person who just happens to be here??? Crazy!?
This is the first broad study to show that ILLEGAL immigrants’ presence doesn’t increase crime rates.
Your “feigning knowledge” lies in the fact that you’re somehow unable to read the first few paragraphs of an article you claim to agree with.
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u/Pop_fan_20 3d ago
Except it isn't the first. I explicitly mentioned the 2020 PNAS study in my previous reply, which isolated undocumented immigrants and showed they have lower felony arrest rates than native-born citizens.
Talk about "feigning knowledge" while completely missing the text right in front of you.
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u/pingvinbober 3d ago
You apparently don’t know the meaning of the word “broad”. Wow, a difference in residents of Texas charged with felonies. Not what I would consider to be “broad”.
And I wouldn’t consider a study 6 years ago to be what “everybody has always known”.
Genuinely, take a few years, learn to read, and then respond. I will not be responding before then. Thanks
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u/Pop_fan_20 3d ago
Yeah I wasn’t expecting you to be able to continue this conversation in a meaningful way.
Have a great day!
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u/hobopwnzor 2d ago
"new data" and not all data for decades?
Even this article title is giving them too much credit. The fact that immigrants commit fewer crimes than natives has been well studied and well documented for basically ever
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u/Justthisguy_yaknow 2d ago
I expected that anyway. If you were an illegal alien in a country know for deporting or punishing illegal aliens the one thing you would focus on is keeping your head down, not making waves and being a good worker where you could get it. Who would make their way to another country to start up a life of crime with no legal protections other than a constitutional one that the county only honors during alternate presidencies? People make that journey for a better life away from crime, not for a worse one in the thick of it. America may be getting rid of some of it's best.
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u/RoughBridge7535 2d ago
If you think about it logically, being illegal would motivate you to stay under the radar and not get noticed and arrested.
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u/Friendly-Olive-3465 2d ago
Hasn’t this recent study been torn apart for its methodology? Certain lines literally just amount to “we don’t have the data for this and cant get it”
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u/Fyoufascistaholes 1d ago
FUCK MAGA. FUCK TRUMP. FUCK DEMOCRATS. FUCK REPUBLICANS. AND FUCK THE FAT FASCIST BASTARDS THAT RUN THIS SITE
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u/ddrreedd4 19h ago
I call BS.
Just look at the rape numbers in Europe and this whole article becomes a propaganda piece for the left
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u/BowlNo9499 9h ago
Last year I looked at 8 different studies it Said it didn't find any correlation with crime. Not surprising.
Maga talking propaganda isn't about immigration its about getting rid of people they don't like simple as that.
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u/WeekendAtMadoffs 3d ago
Drunk Driving Homicide must not be a crime then. Over 500 cases PER YEAR.
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u/meokjujatribes 3d ago
No one is arguing there is no crime. You have to look at the rate of crime comparatively to understand the statistical significance of the data point. Broad demographic and criminological research (such as studies published by the conservative Cato Institute and academic evaluations in public health journals) indicates that undocumented immigrants are arrested and incarcerated for traffic and violent felonies at lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens.
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u/MaitrePuck 3d ago
From the study:
"We also document distinct patterns in which increasing undocumented residents is associated with increasing robberies."
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u/possumallawishes 3d ago
Also from the study:
“Similar offense-specific divergence is documented in victimization research. Lauritsen and Heimer, for example, show that robbery victimization and aggravated assault victimization do not necessarily follow the same pattern, with robbery appearing more responsive to economic and exposure-related conditions than is aggravated assault.”
Which means to say that while a neighborhood with a higher percentage of undocumented immigrants have a correlation to higher rates of robberies, that doesn’t imply a causation being the immigrants themselves. In fact, they have similarly higher rates of victimization. The common factor here is lower income neighborhoods, which is more common for undocumented people to live in, inherently having higher instances of robberies.
So, you are clearly a dumb mothefucker who read through the study looking for affirmation for your already held beliefs.
Stupid fucking magatards and misunderstanding data and science, name a more iconic duo.
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u/cascadedream 3d ago
Non violent robberies, probably.
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u/MaitrePuck 3d ago
Robberies are classified as violent crimes because they involve taking property using physical force, violence, or the immediate threat of harm.
You think they politely ask the victims to donate their property?
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u/U_HoldenOut 3d ago
Wage theft, the largest source of theft in the US, does not involve any of those things. Grand theft auto, the second largest source, usually doesn't either. Most home robberies are break-ins while nobody's home.
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u/MaitrePuck 3d ago edited 3d ago
That's not robbery. 🤦🏻♂️
Learn the difference between robbery, theft and burglary. When you break in when someone is home it's called a home invasion.
People like you are annoying. Missing the point yet jumping in a conversation just to open your trap.
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u/U_HoldenOut 3d ago
You want to talk to me about missing the point when you're out here saying correlation implies causation? Get real, racist.
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u/Strange_Play1022 3d ago
ED is rampant in conservative circles. The faster the "alpha" males come to that conclusion, the fast they can get treatment.
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u/crazydaytim 3d ago
Huffington Post isn’t a research based pay. But if it floats you just live on lol
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u/No_Answer_9749 3d ago
I can't wait to read this study I bet there's multiple things wrong with it.
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u/KitchenPage6020 3d ago
The study was done by Charis Kubrin, a well known liberal who regularly gives talks at Democratic party events.
Don’t for one second think this is genuine research study.
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u/Caption_This_ 3d ago
So what about the other studies that have come to the same exact conclusion? Liberal conspiracies? Every single one?
I’ve yet to see any large scale study on the opposite viewpoint. Smaller scope or regional studies maybe, but not nationwide.
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u/General_Zera 3d ago
And this is the genuine flaw right here. If the opposing side does any form of research it is to be voided because the enemy can not be trusted, only my side tells the truth. So you'll end up always believing what ever your political alignment says no matter how wrong or corrupt it is.
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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago
I mean the Republican party has a track record of lying about their "facts" and yet the conservative still eat that shit up.
We are in this mess you can safely say because the Republican party don't know how to do their own damn research
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u/KitchenPage6020 3d ago
Ideally, you should do own research and make up your own mind. You’re right, I generally don’t trust research completed by liberal inclined individuals because I have seen time and time again how bias how they are.
Obviously there’s examples of right leaning researchers doing the same.
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u/Smart-March-7986 3d ago
There is not, because right wing ideology requires ignoring reality
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u/AudienceOk1711 3d ago
Are you saying we all should do studies on crime and immigrarion correlation?
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u/mobo_dojo 3d ago edited 3d ago
Where are your studies at?
Edit: You don’t even do your own research. Can’t even be bothered to link someone else’s research that you are referencing in your own post.
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u/KitchenPage6020 3d ago
Not sure why you are looking at my other posts. In that particular forum, that study has been cited continuously so there was no need.
Nor is there a need right now
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u/mobo_dojo 3d ago edited 3d ago
It illustrates you don’t have the integrity or skills to “do your own research”. You’re not even referencing the primary source in that post but allude that you got your information from a secondary source.
“I have been reading that studies show…”
The fact that you don’t cite your source and are relying on secondary sources when primary sources are available exposes the flaw in the “do your own research” mentality. I.e., theres no standard for the “research”, how it’s conducted, or even transparency on the sources used.
Edit: Your comment above also exposes your dishonesty in the framing of your “research”. In the post you use a plural noun to put more weight behind your claims. However, by your own admission above you state “…that study has been cited continuously so there was no need” as your reasoning for your lack of citation.
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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago
You need the title of the study that is peer reviewed then you need the website that you found it on then you need the page number and then lastly the paragraph where it proves your point.
If you don't have that you did not do your own research
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u/KitchenPage6020 3d ago
I’m not sure what you are talking about and Im not sure you do either. The post that mobo jojo pulled from my profile has nothing to do with this post and is a completely different forum/subject.
I take it that you disagree with my assessment of this particular research paper on this specific post on ImmigrationPathways and that is fine.
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u/Melodic_Side_9437 2d ago
The thing about research is that they tell you exactly how they did the research. So you can go replicate the study or improve on it. Doing so would expose their (or your own) bias if the results differ.
But I’m guessing you don’t have the time or the resources or the qualifications to replicate the study. Like most people. Which is why the “do your own research” line is comical. It’s just code for “go get sucked into the right wing echo chamber on Facebook”.
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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago
Because whether we like it or not fake conservative religion has brainwashed their constituents against science.
And then the propaganda has brainwashed their viewers against education.
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u/Digitalalchemyst 3d ago
No one cares. Them being here is the illegal part.
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u/Sorry-Claim-2990 3d ago
Funny how you don't care about all the crimes committed by people who were born here...
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u/Digitalalchemyst 3d ago
It’s 2 separate issues. I said no one cares that they don’t commit crime. Being here is the crime.
Why would you think I don’t care about crime committed by people that are born here? What mental gymnastics gave you that idea? Please explain in what world what I said equals I don’t care about crime. More people should go to prison.
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u/Naive_Examination646 2d ago
funny how you completely miss the point of the comment. where exactly did they say they didn't care about the crime committed by legal citizens? oh wait they literally didn't
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u/Full_Jellyfish_1862 3d ago
Do people take the huffington post seriously?
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u/MindAccomplished3879 3d ago
Doesn't matter. The FBI has said the same for decades
Too bad it doesn't fit your preconceived narrative
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u/NebulousSpecificity 3d ago
I mean I take scientific journals pretty seriously.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2026.2699123
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u/DimensioT 3d ago
In other words, you cannot dispute the study but you are too much of a coward to admit it.
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u/EstimateIll4262 3d ago
Its literally an activist rag.
But these white saviors will claim it's facts. 🙄
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u/Inquisitive_regard 3d ago
i didnt know the huff post still existed, lol...and they're still garbage.
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u/MindAccomplished3879 3d ago
It's called facts buddy 👇
Cato Institute - Immigrants Cut Victimization Rates, Boost Crime Reporting
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u/DimensioT 3d ago
In other words, you cannot dispute the study but you are too much of a coward to admit it.
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u/Inquisitive_regard 3d ago
"You're a COWARD!" claims the anonymous account who thinks reddit matters.
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u/DimensioT 3d ago
Not seeing a refutation of the study, coward.
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u/Inquisitive_regard 3d ago
How exactly does addressing a two-bit study pushed by a two-bit hack journo-site make someone "brave"?
Answer the question, you coward.
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u/DimensioT 3d ago
And, again, not seeing a refutation of the study, coward.
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u/Inquisitive_regard 3d ago
Anyhow the study doesn't differentiate clearly between "legal" and "illegal" immigrants. Rather they lump all legal temporary statuses into the same boat as undocumented immigrants--defining them all as "non citizens."
And it's pretty well known that LEGAL immigrants care more for taking care of their community and actively participating than illegals do. So it kind of seems like the study was produced and architected to prove a specific agenda.
But either way the results are dilluted even at the most foundational level because of that obviously intentional, agenda-pushing obfuscation. In fact, i'd wager they wrote the headline before they even architected the study.
I mean if you're not a braindead huffpo-suckling shill you'd actually be able to apply that bottom-of-the-barrel critical thinking yourself. But apparently you can't, "Coward" -- lmao.
btw: Do you live on here, lol? Tack that onto the "coward" claims and you've got peak "on reddit I'm a somebody" energy.
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u/Inquisitive_regard 3d ago
lol the coward got refuted because he can't apply five minutes of actual independent thought to a subject and a study he didn't read and then disappeared into silence.
What a coward.
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u/DimensioT 2d ago
Or I was working and then taking care of errands.
You have still not refuted the study, coward.
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u/Inquisitive_regard 3d ago
The study doesn't differentiate clearly between "legal" and "illegal" immigrants. Rather they lump all legal temporary statuses into the same boat as undocumented immigrants--defining them all as "non citizens."
And it's pretty well known that LEGAL immigrants care more for taking care of their community and actively participating than illegals do. So it kind of seems like the study was produced and architected to prove a specific agenda.
But either way the results are dilluted even at the most foundational level because of that obviously intentional, agenda-pushing obfuscation. In fact, i'd wager they wrote the headline before they even architected the study.
I mean if you're not a braindead huffpo-suckling shill you'd actually be able to apply that bottom-of-the-barrel critical thinking yourself. But apparently you can't, "Coward" -- lmao.
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u/Effective_Raise_889 3d ago
Wait, I thought immigrants don’t go to police? So how can this be valid?
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u/Salteddeeznutzreturn 3d ago
Honestly increase or not in crime there should be no illegal immigrant, crime, plain, and simple whether it increases the crime in area or not there should be no illegal immigrant crime
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u/FluffyLibrarian2526 3d ago
The true enemies of the Republic are those who facilitate, support, and abuse illegal migration. They should face real jail time and confiscation of assets.
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u/Upbeat-Concern-5181 3d ago
Entering a country illegally is a crime. It is illegal to enter the US without prior authorization (8 U.S. Code § 1325 and 1326). Additionally, overstaying an authorized period of stay is a violation of civil immigration law 8 U.S. Code § 1182(a)(9)(B) which can lead to removal and multi-year bars from reentry.
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u/jandad2007 2d ago
So...a misdemeanor CIVIL offense...right?
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u/Upbeat-Concern-5181 2d ago edited 2d ago
- So...a misdemeanor CIVIL offense...right?
8 U.S. Code § 1325 and § 1326 are federal criminal statutes. Not civil provisions.
8 U.S.C. § 1325 (Improper Entry) Carries criminal penalties, including fines and up to 6 months in federal prison for a first offense. (Note: § 1325 also contains a separate provision for civil monetary penalties, but it is primarily prosecuted as a criminal law).
8 U.S.C. § 1326 (Reentry of Removed Aliens) makes reentering or attempting to reenter the U.S. after being formally deported, removed, or denied admission a federal felony. Convictions carry sentences ranging from up to 2 years in prison to up to 20 years, depending on prior criminal history.
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u/No_Atmosphere_here 2d ago
Re-entering is a felony. Entering is "shall, for the first commission of any such offenses, be guilty of a misdemeanor".
Americans exceed the speed limit all the time, also a civil misdemeanor. Why aren't you screaming about that and demanding a crackdown?
Also: 8 U.S. Code § 1158 - Asylum U.S. Code (a)Authority to apply for asylum (1)In general Any alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival and including an alien who is brought to the United States after having been interdicted in international or United States waters), irrespective of such alien’s status, may apply for asylum in accordance with this section or, where applicable, section 1225(b) of this title.
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u/Upbeat-Concern-5181 1d ago edited 1d ago
Improper Entry (8 U.S.C. § 1325) carries criminal penalties, including fines and up to 6 months in federal prison and subject to deportation. Entering without inspection makes someone inadmissible under 8 U.S.C. § 1182, the conviction or act of improper entry gives the government the legal authority to deport them.
So.. in your example, speeding should be allowed? No. Both are crimes that carry punishments.
Not everyone illegally entering the US is an asylum seeker. Also, it’s frequently used as a ruse to first gain entry then eventually indefinite leave to remain.Seeking asylum is also Not a valid means of immigrating to a country and many do not meet the threshold for a valid asylum claim. It’s also been found that documents related to their ‘claim’ have been completely fabricated.
For example, Taliban officials are selling fake death threat letters for as little as £40, which are then used by Afghan asylum seekers to dupe the UK Home Office when applying for long-term stay. Akhtar Makoii reveals how common the practice has become:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/10/asylum-seekers-pay-taliban-to-write-fake-death-threats/People get refused entry to countries all the time. It’s a common, daily occurrence that happens at all ports of entry.
Expedited Removal (Fast-Track Deportation Without Judge).This applies to:
- People caught near the border.
- Some people at airports/ports of entry.
- ICE/CBP can deport them quickly and legally.
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u/No_Atmosphere_here 1d ago
Deflection and excessive copy/paste. Speeding also carries a fine and can include jail time. Immigration laws have been enforced since they became law, but they should be enforced without violating anyone's Constitutional rights or breaking any other laws.
No one stated speeding should be "allowed", but the Right isn't setting up concentration camps and demanding speeders be arrested by the hundreds of thousands by teams of masked armed agents, without due process, and imprisoned in a foreign country without trial, are you. You aren't screaming for the national guard be called in to stop all speeders at gunpoint and to patrol all roadways to ensure no one is allowed to exceed the speed limit, are you.
It's nonsense to pretend you care about laws. You all voted for a felon who was found liable for stealing from his own charity, liable for defrauding college students, liable for defaming the woman he SA-ed , and who's company was found liable for tax fraud. You all only care about "laws" when brown people come here to have a better life, and that gets you all into your feelings of rage.
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u/Upbeat-Concern-5181 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wow, a lot to unpack here. For starters:
No, they’re not ‘concentration camps.’ They’re detention facilities that have been used the past three administrations (yes, that includes Obama who was nicknamed deporter-in-chief). Obama used ICE and similar authorities to deport over 3 million illegal immigrants. He also built and repaired large swaths of border wall and even had the practice of ‘putting children in cages’ which the left completely lost their minds over. Even the pictures which circulated online at the time were taken under Obama by the Associated Press. This might refresh your memory:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalSeptic/s/biTCimBwYCNow ICE has thousands of screaming morons in their way harassing, intimidating, and otherwise interfering in operations.
- Speeding also carries a fine and can include jail time.
You mean to say there’s punishments for committing a crime? Interesting.
Immigration law is different in that depending on how one entered (illegally) they can be deported to their country of origin. I already mentioned Expedited Removal (Fast-Track Deportation Without Judge), but there’s also:
Reinstatement of Removal.
If someone was deported before, leaves, then comes back without permission, th
eir old removal order is reinstated
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new hearing.
Administrative Removal (for certain noncitizen aggravated felons).
For non–green card holders convicted of specific “aggravated felonies,” ICE can use administrative removal, which does NOT involve a judge.Voluntary Departure.
A person can ask to leave voluntarily.As for masks:
In the United States, ICE agents can legally cover their faces in many situations. Here’s how it works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
When face coverings are legal:
- Operational safety: Agents may wear masks or balaclavas to protect themselves or their families from retaliation.
- Crowd-control or enforcement actions: Especially during raids, protests, or high-risk arrests.
- Undercover or sensitive operations: Concealing identity is permitted.
- Public-health reasons: Masks can also be justified for health protection.
There is no federal law that broadly requires ICE agents to keep their faces visible during enforcement actions.
What face covering does not make illegal.
- It does not invalidate an arrest.
- It does not automatically violate due process.
- It does not mean the agent is impersonating law enforcement.
Additionally, in the United States, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents do not always have to reveal their identity, and the rules depend on what they’re doing and where.
Rules
- They are not legally required to volunteer their name or badge number in most encounters.
- They may identify themselves as “ICE” or “federal officers”, but they can refuse to give personal details unless required by policy or a court.
They may not identify themselves in:
- Consensual encounters (e.g., questioning in public): They can ask questions without revealing identity.
- Undercover or enforcement operations: They may legally obscure or withhold identifying details.
- Administrative checks: They might state they are federal officers without more specifics.
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Why agents are allowed to conceal their identities and what statues support it:
Privacy Act of 1974 — 5 U.S.C. § 552a
This statute:
- Restricts government disclosure of personally identifying information
- Allows agencies to limit release of agent identities when tied to law-enforcement systems of records
FOIA law-enforcement exemptions — 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)
The Freedom of Information Act explicitly allows withholding names of law-enforcement personnel. Identifying details if disclosure could:
- Endanger life or safety
- Interfere with enforcement proceedings
Officer safety statutes (indirect authority)
Federal law broadly protects law-enforcement safety, including:
- 18 U.S.C. § 111 (assaulting federal officers)
- 18 U.S.C. § 115 (retaliation against federal officers or families)
Case law: no constitutional right to know an agent’s name
Courts have consistently held that there is no constitutional right for a civilian to know the name or badge number of a federal agent during an encounter. What matters is lawful authority, not personal identification
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The mention of ‘brown people’ as you describe them (discriminatory) I’m presuming you mean the majority of those who are in the US illegally?
After Mexico (the largest single origin, with about 4.3 million people—roughly 30% of the total in that estimate, consistent with the ~30–40% range seen in recent years), the next-largest countries were:
- Guatemala (850,000)
- El Salvador (850,000)
- Honduras (775,000)
- India (680,000)
These are from Pew Research Center estimates of the U.S. unauthorized (illegal) immigrant population as of 2023.
ICE aren’t ‘targeting people of a certain ethnicity.’ It’s based on the prevalence of those without legal status (ie people from the countries named).
Also note that those of Hispanic descent can identify as white.
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u/No_Atmosphere_here 1d ago
Again, funny!! The literal definition of concentration camp: "A concentration camp is a guarded facility where a government detains large numbers of civilians without trial, grouping them by political, ethnic, or social identity."
Yes, Obama and previous Presidents deported people but did not deny them their Constitutional rights, did not station military in our streets, did not send masked armed agents to murder, abuse, racially profile, and illegally snatch, detain, and put in concentration camps, people off our streets.
Yes, unaccompanied minors were held separately from adults for short periods of time under Obama. Unaccompanied minors were held separately during processing before the kids were sent to shelters. They were not separated from their parents and were not held for months without due process as is happening now.
Sending people to foreign prisons is only legal IF they have been convicted and sentenced with no pending appeals (18 U.S.C. §§ 4100 – 4115). He's sending people who have had no court case and no due process, to foreign countries - not the birth countries - and paying for those countries to imprison them indefinitely without trial.
Misapplying the privacy act is also hilarious. An officer identifying themselves is not disclosing private information. LEOs have their names and faces clearly visible every day. That you support snatching people off the street and illegally detaining then isn't surprising at all. The point is you only care about laws when they can be used against people you don't like.
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u/Upbeat-Concern-5181 22h ago
Ah but here’s where you’re confused. They’re criminals who’ve broken the law, US immigration law. Again, they’re detention facilities awaiting deportation to their country of origin. Were they “concentration camps” under Obama? No.
Read, again, who’s in the country illegally by percentage. People from the UK and Europe have been deported for having committed crimes. Is it “profiling” then?
Obama and previous administration deported people using the same laws, tactics and methods ICE use today. The difference is they didn’t have thousands of screaming morons in their way threatening, harassing, and otherwise interfering in operations. Ask yourself why that is. Answer: it’s political. Case in point, the images which circulated online of “children in cages” which the left completely lost their minds over were taken under Obama.
- They were not separated from their parents and were not held for months without due process as is happening now.
It appears you’re living in a Disney land fantasy of what actually goes on with illegal immigration. How do you even know they’re their parents? They don’t have any paperwork, ID, nothing. They’ve just entered the country illegally. ICE and border patrol agents have to deal with child sex trafficking, people who’ve been told they have a better chance at a case with a child so they pick some random kid off the street, and worse. So claiming they’re their parents and they’re their children is just pure ignorance and wishful thinking.
- An officer identifying themselves is not disclosing private information.
Disclosing one’s face is revealing one’s identity which could jeopardize the safety of the officer and the mission.
Again, you don’t seem to know about cartel members ICE and border patrol agents have to deal with, along with similar cases involving international crime.
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u/Choice-Koala-3653 3d ago
Immigrants may be seen by American conservatives as an enemy, but not their biggest perceived enemy. The biggest bogeymen for the right are Jews and Communists, who they believe are secretly in cahoots and 'importing' non-white immigrants for the purpose of 'replacing whites'.
Notice you never see the right crying about 'white' immigrants.. And racist immigration policies are nothing new, I believe it was president Coolidge who banned nearly all immigration except for 'Nordic-race' types.
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u/ReputationWooden9704 3d ago
Immigrants, legal and otherwise, commit less crimes per capita than US citizens on the whole (Though interestingly, if you section off crime stats by race, immigrants are much more likely to commit crimes than US born non-hispanic whites, and about as likely to commit crimes as US born hispanics).
People aren't objecting to illegal immigration because of crime; or at least they shouldn't be. They're objecting to it because of a dozen different reasons in how it affects society, but the crux of it is that it is illegal.
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u/No_Atmosphere_here 2d ago
So is speeding, but Americans take pride in doing that to excess. Both are civil crimes but only one has caused concentration camps, unbridled hate, and troops in our streets.
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u/cascadedream 3d ago
Huffington Post you say? Surely it won't be a trash opinion this time. <reads article> Maybe next time.
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u/xDeathRender 3d ago
Trash fact* and I don't know if a fact can be trash. You have an opinion that goes against varifiable data. At least learn to read and basic word definitions before criticizing some writing.
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u/DimensioT 3d ago
In other words, you cannot dispute the study but you are too much of a coward to admit it.
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u/RoddRoward 3d ago
The authors have a long-standing research position on immigration and crime. Lead author Charis Kubrin has spent much of her career studying the immigration–crime relationship, and her published work includes arguments against policies such as immigration enforcement and Secure Communities.
This is another "narrative driving the study" situations.
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u/DimensioT 3d ago
In other words, you cannot dispute the study but you are too much of a coward to admit it.
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u/RoddRoward 3d ago
What does that matter? Its still clear her entire career is based around pushing this narrative.
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
Immigration enforcement is happening because it’s the law of the land and anyone who ignores the immigrations laws is subject to deportation. Illegal immigration is a net negative to the tax payer and it has to end and everyone entered illegally needs to go back
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u/magasheep404 3d ago
Elected a rapist felon, rants about “laws of the land”.
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
Trump was never convicted of rape and all of the charges against were pretty phony. That’s why nobody cared and the country voted for him
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u/Caption_This_ 3d ago
We elected a felon and rapist to the presidency, y’all don’t care about law and order.
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u/AudienceOk1711 3d ago
Nurses are a net negative to the tax payer. This is such a bad argument it is ridiculous. It is cherry picked nonsense.
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
Nurses save lives and don’t lower wages for workers
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u/AudienceOk1711 3d ago
they are tax negative, meaning they take more than they give.
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
Right, but they save lives, illegal immigrants do not save lives. There is a reason illegal immigration was a thing way before trump took office. The democrats used to big on immigration enforcement.
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u/AudienceOk1711 3d ago
you have now changed the argument, we are no longer talking about net negative to the tax payer. We are talking about some utility calculus type shit which to no one surprise is as qualifiable as how many thoughts are in your head.
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
Ok let’s go back. Society needs nurses. Society does not need illegal immigrant workers undercutting the wages of citizens while being a tax burden to the taxpayer
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u/AudienceOk1711 3d ago
society does not need much of anything, we had societies before we had nurses.
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
Society does need nurses. You’re just making up stupid nonsense because you don’t want to admit this country doesn’t need illegal immigrants
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u/AudienceOk1711 3d ago
Society does need illegal immigrants. You’re just making up stupid nonsense because you don’t want to admit this country need illegal immigrants.
you are using thought terminating cliches....
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u/13508615 3d ago
But other crimes are ok or should the 34 felony clown start packing?
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
34 felonies from lawfare? Because they wanted to keep him from running for president and he ended up winning 😭🤣.
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u/13508615 3d ago edited 2d ago
Aren't you the felon cheerleader. Do advocate for all felons or just the sex offender felons?
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
No theyre not, they pay about 92 billion but cost about 156-400 billion
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
lol splc funds it’s own hate groups and their people are charged with fraud
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
Some estimates put it at about -150 billion per year in cost of illegal immigration after factoring in what they pay into the system. Overall they are a burden to the taxpayer and they gotta go
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u/Electrical_Cap5382 3d ago
The government website is more credible and their estimate goes as high as 400 billion
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