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RoboXgp89 posted...

compared to the population as a whole
if you segment the population further they commit just as many crimes, which is why they didn't compare them to whites or asians or even hispanics
anyone can commit less crimes than another group if they're

1)only here for a short time
2)unable to be detained because they don't have a real name or home

Wrong.

https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/criminal-immigrants-texas-illegal-immigrant

Citizens commit crimes at a rate twice as high as illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants commit even less crime, though the drop is not as dramatic. The effect is so pronounced, particularly in urban areas (which tend to have higher crime rates to begin with), that a jump in the illegal immigrant population correlates fairly strongly with a drop in that city's violent crime rate.

Your bullet points are also logically unsound:

1) The time a person spends in the country is, statistically, completely unimportant (especially because, for every migrant that leaves the country, more come in to take their place). If someone comes here, stays for 10 years without committing a crime, then leaves, that's a good thing. Saying, "Well, they only have lower crime rates because they're not here very long!" is a) A tacit admission that they *do* commit crimes at a lower rate, regardless of the reason, and b) Logically irrelevant (kind of like saying "the citizen crime rate is suppressed because they die at higher rates, particularly of natural causes").

2) Illegal immigrants aren't transients. They all have real names and most have homes and fixed addresses. And even if they didn't, the absence of those things doesn't prevent detention or incarceration. They're not demons, you don't need to open up a grimoire and recite their true name before they can be captured.
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