Crime is increased by poverty most of all. Take care of poverty and crime will plummet.

Makes sense. If you’re driving a car with expired registration the last thing you want is to get pulled over.

Same goes if you’re in the country illegally: You avoid committing crimes so you don’t get caught and potentially deported.

Bullshit. I've seen atrocious crimes due to unauthorized immigration - crimes by the ICE organization against people assigned this label. I hope to see justice soon.

"My feelings don't care about the facts"

• maga

I thought data already showed that undocumented tend to do less crime. Which would make sense if you are trying to keep a low profile anyway...

So…crime is created by material conditions, not by someone’s ethnicity.

Further proof that open borders is the way to go.

Wrong facts! Wrong facts!!!!! Reeeeeeeee

Pffft. “Science”. Don’t they know this criminal, cruel, and incompetent “police” force are driven by a truly fucked up ‘belief’ in Jesus?! Oh and money.

Both of which have trumped science for the better part of a decade. Sorry for the pun and the dystopian quality of the zeitgeist.

Honestly, it might even be lower

No fucking shit. You think anybody who is in the country illegally is going to draw attention to themselves by committing crimes?

FWIW I've known multiple people who admitted to being in the country illegally, and they were wonderful, normal, working people. I've also personally been through the US immigration system from a strictly legal standpoint and it's no picnic, and no wonder people want to cut corners. It was always surprising to me how many upstanding christian, tax paying, public servant working people would say things like "just fly your fiance to mexico and bring her over with you" as if comitting a felony was the common sense answer to a deffective immigration system.

Odd, it should have a negative association.