Debunking the Debunkers [Immigration]

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Debunking the Debunkers [Immigration]
City Journal ^ | 11/22/24 | Jukka Savolainen

Posted on 11/23/2024 11:14:21 PM PST by CFW

Despite claiming years ago to have “the best words,” President-elect Donald Trump is something less than a flawless orator. Consider his remarks during an on-stage appearance this past summer at the annual convention of the National Association of Black-Journalists: “I will tell you that coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs.”

Democrats and the media panned then-nominee Trump for appearing to suggest that some jobs are inherently “black.” But they failed to address his intended point: illegal immigrants are competing for, and in some cases taking, jobs held by African-Americans.

[..]The data are clearly on the president-elect’s side. A study by Harvard economist George Borjas, for example, found that a 10 percent immigration-induced growth in one subset of the labor supply reduced black male employment by 6 percent. Additionally, Louisiana State University sociologist Edward Shihadeh linked Latino immigration to increases in both black unemployment and violence.

The media frequently dispute any attempt to draw such connections—and they dismiss Trump’s assertions about the relationship between mass illegal migration and criminal offending. Alex Piquero, former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, for example, recently argued in The Hill that “immigrants do not commit more crimes than native-born Americans.”

While this claim is true, it omits critical context. When ordinary Americans express concerns with immigrant crime, they are not referring to graduate students from France or of software engineers from India. They are concerned with specific groups of illegal immigrants, such as the Venezuelan-gangs reportedly terrorizing Aurora, Colorado, and their propensity to engage in violent crime.

America’s crime data, however, do not generally include offenders’ nationality or legal status. .

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: border; crime; illegalaliens; immigrants

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Corporate media, and many times conservative media as well, conflate the two; illegal aliens and legal immigrants.

Those that spend years going through the process to come to America legally probably do commit few crimes. They have worked hard, spent a lot of money, and completed form after form, to qualify for the privilege to immigrate legally to America. When they do arrive, they immediately get to work pursuing the American dream.

It's those that come here illegally who are criminals by definition and who also commit more crimes once they arrive. They are a drain on our society from day one and as we saw with Laken Riley's killer, have no problem committing one crime after another, often times with no repercussions.

1 posted on 11/23/2024 11:14:21 PM PST by CFW

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