As a general rule I try and avoid doing posts that do little besides link somewhere else. However Ron Unz’s article from The American Conservative is quite well done and at least ought to be a significant contribution to the immigration debate, so I’m going to do just that.
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Likes this article, though it was lengthy and I skimmed a bit, life is short. This will provide a good source in the future. In a way it seems like the fear emitting from this debate of crime rate and immigration is the last of some old propaganda trying to die out. I think there is somewhat of a correlation between particularly Mexican immigration and crime rates, but I think a large portion of this simply deals with the war on drugs. The disparity of drug arrests from whites to hispanics and blacks is undeniable (2.5 to 1 blacks to whites for marijuana for example), and marijuana makes most of this difference as marijuana alone constitutes a bit less than half of all drug arrests. Anyways, regardless of charts and graphs, which fluctuate based on law and culture and various other factors, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a correlation. The problem isn’t the crime rate in this instance, but the crime itself which might be no more a real crime than being a ‘witch’ during the Salem witch trials also dealing with people consuming a crop ironically.