Comment on Britons greatly overestimate number of sex crimes committed by foreign nationals

• SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  with functional immigration rules one can expect nicer people to be let in and bad people are forbidden to enter.

  How do you propose we determine who will commit a crime before letting them in? Why do locals get a pass to you for committing the same crimes at similar rates as foreigners?

  I think someone is misdirecting your anger to the wrong targets. Most immigrants do not want to harm you. Billionaires, on the other hand, love it when we harm each other instead of them. They don’t want to lose their wealth, their power; they want to widen the gap even more. They want to control us through fearmongering and deception.

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• huey_m@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Worthy of criticism and suggestions to improve, perhaps, but certainly this means the hyperventilating and pearl clutching is entirely unwarranted and misguided at best, right? Purposefully misleading and spreading xenophobia at worst?

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• Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So with normally working laws percentage of crimes committed by foreigners should be noticeably lower.

  We already have mechanisms to prevent those convicted of crimes from being allowed to remain in the country. How do you propose preventing those who might commit a crime in the future from entering the country? It’s impossible.

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  • username_1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It is possible. It is quite trivial, actually. Just intellect/erudition test. Clever people tend to be less criminally active. Especially primitive crime-wise like robberies, sex-related crimes, etc. I’m sure an a year or so that test might be tuned to be very effective and absolutely not restrictive.

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    • lemdeggity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You have a clear bias and are working backwards from there in order to justify it.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Clever people tend to be less criminally active.

      So in just a couple of hours, you’ve gone from “foreigners are all criminals” to “only stupid people commit crime”.

      I’m not even going to engage with the ridiculousness of your statement only to say that you must be a career criminal…

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      • username_1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So in just a couple of hours, you’ve gone from “foreigners are all criminals” to “only stupid people commit crime”.

        I never claimed anything like that. I said that in most countries immigration laws are not good enough.

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    • zedcell@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      discuss.tchncs.de nazi posting? Colour me surprised

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• SarahValentine@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And are they taking this approach to all such criminals in the country, or does it only matter this much when talking about immigrants?

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