Isn’t it common sense that people breaking the law should get deported and go back to where they came from? For Pete’s sake, I wish people were more conservative about this!

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    23 days ago

    That’s the thing:

    The vast majority of people coming here are not “criminals”. Undocumented, yes, but that’s only because our system requires that before they can claim asylum.

    On average, the US sees between 2 and 3 million immigrants a year.

    Now here are the arrest stats:

    https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-alien-statistics

    Even 2024 with a peak of 17,000 criminal arrests, out of 2 million immigrants is less than 1%.

    You want to change the laws to prevent something that is, statistically, so low it doesn’t really happen.

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      23 days ago

      The arrest rate of immigrants is less than 1%??? That incidence of crime is so much lower than American citizens we are effectively importing a lower crime rate.

      OP, I implore you to go look them up for yourself. The thing you’re worried about is going to blow your mind how wrong you are.

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        23 days ago

        Less than 1% of those coming in are actual criminals, it’s not counting the existing immigrant population, which is slightly higher, but still far lower than the domestic population.