in State, County and local jails are quite similar even in the Northeast far from the border:
The financial burden on the Social Safety net is huge costing hundreds of Billions of $
Diseases once thought eradicated are reappearing throughout the county.
Drugs pour in killing and destroying lives of millions.
Large parts of our major cities are dangerous and literally unlivable (all managed by the left)
Respect for the "Rule if Law" the bedrock of our Society is being smashed.
Young girls lives destroyed by human trafficing
Wages needed by poor American citizens (especially in the black and Hispanic communities) are being depressed
History tells use and recent events in the EU confirm that open borders and a Welfare State lead to bankruptcy and social disorder for even the strongest countries
Our Country is truly a Ship of Fools. Naive lemmings being led to the cliff by those seeking Money and Power. We need only to look to our South to see our future if the Left gets it's way. A country with the some of the largest oil reserves in the world is bankrupt and it's people are starving. Europe is failing even though we have been subsidizing their defense budgets with Trillions of $ since the end of WW2. Free Market Capitalism has built the strongest, most prosperous Country in the history of mankind here and many are choosing to run away from it to Socialism which is failing and has failed everywhere.
Historian Alexander Tytler tells us our future as follows: " A democracy cannot exist as a permanent for of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the Public always votes for candidates offering the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that the democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy almost always followed by a dictatorship.The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations is about 200 years. These have progressed through the following sequence: From Bondage to Spiritual Faith, from Spiritual Faith to Courage, from Courage to Liberty, from Liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to apathy, from apathy the dependence and from dependence back to bondage."
I leave it to you to determine where we are on Dr. Tytler's time frame but my guess is that we are proceeding from apathy to dependence. You only need to read this board to realize that his warnings are spot on. The outcome most probably cannot be changed since human nature will prevail but it will not be pretty for my grandchildren or yours.
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Link: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/population_statistics.jsp
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Link: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/05/02/doj-stats-on-illegal-aliens-n2321090
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and perhaps there are a few other minor categoires captured within the catgeory of foreign born, non-naturalized prisoners,
but the very large majority of these are illegal aliens, and thus the stat would appear to be legit.
If sources are given, we can learn what soundbite actually signifies.
Cape's statistic appears to be a carefully chosen proxy for some other statistic that is on point. The statistic Cape appears to be interested in conveying is whether illegal immigrants commit more violent/theft/drug crimes than native-born citizens. Or maybe not. But that seems to be the point he is having difficulty making.
In fact, the argument can be made that we are safer, on an individual basis, because of illegal immigration. The recent study in Texas showed that illegal immigrants commit fewer murders, sexual assaults, and larceny per 100,000 persons than citizens. It's been reported several places, and I have a link below. Thus, it is safer (on an individual basis) to have illegal immigrants (at least in Texas), since they dilute the overall crime rate.
The federal incarceration rate of non-citizens is a poor proxy for understanding the impact illegal immigrants have on safety.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/19/two-charts-demolish-the-notion-that-immigrants-here-illegally-commit-more-crime/?utm_term=.47e89c33d357
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Worked for less than minimum wage. I’m sure you were just as outraged then and probably voiced your concern daily, in editorial pages across the country.
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But hey, why shouldn’t I believe you when just a short two weeks ago you admitted to me that you like spouting opinions on just about everything even if you didn’t know much about the topic.
Do yourself a favor and go re-read your own post. Maybe that will focus your doddering old brain for a few minutes to reconsider why it’s not smart to post and then tell lies. Electronic is forever.
Then again, maybe I’m expecting too much from you given that your handle happens to be the dumbest of the three stooges.