Comment on CNBC Shock Poll: 73% of Americans Now Support Militarizing the Border

• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  From what I gather, illegal immigrants are statistically no more likely to be violent than any other people

  I haven’t seen the data but this wouldn’t shock me

  Comments like these help reinforce the point about fear mongering over illegal immigrants in the right wing media, no?

  How?

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  • boywar3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    nij.ojp.gov/…/undocumented-immigrant-offending-ra…

    Evidently, they are significantly less likely to commit crimes in general. Though the study does state it can be difficult to make the distinction between legal and illegal migrants, it shows that both groups are less likely to commit crimes overall.

    My point about fear mongering is that the claims of “violent illegals” is one of the more common things used to justify “mass deportations” in a similar way to how there is an undercurrent of fear regarding Muslims to be terrorists due to a vanishingly small percent of them being terrorists.

    Of course, if you are able to make the distinction, then I will not say you in particular have been brainwashed by said propaganda, but I think the point is valid insofar as pointing out the initial claim you made is a commonly used one to justify being anyi-immigration.

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