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To: tejek who wrote (716884)	5/21/2013 9:16:36 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584408

Nothing from that article contradicts what I posted. Then you weren't looking very closely: According to the nonpartisan Immigration Policy Institute, proponents of the bill "overlook two salient points: Crime rates have already been falling in Arizona for years despite the presence of unauthorized immigrants, and a century's worth of research has demonstrated that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes or be behind bars than the native-born." No where in that article are the FBI statistics I posted contradicted. The author quotes some FBI statistics about a recent reduction in crime, which is a good thing but irrelevant. It is you who is off base here. The underlined portion of your post is true as far as I know. Yet it is not a contradiction. It Is a factual statement of the observable conditions over the past century associated with legal immigrants. It is true picture of legal immigration but It isn’t really relevant to the case at hand, except to point out the difference between what happens in comparison. It looks more like it was plugged into that article to create a false impression of the conditions we are currently facing in the South West, ignoring the special case at hand, which is also factual. I suspect you already know that which is why you like it. Odd as that would seem to a normal person, it is the kind of thing I’ve come to expect from you. The facts even as reported in your article attribute horrible crime stats to the presence of illegals. Don't a bout disarming the Rs. It's not the Rs you are going to have to worry about. The FBI recently issued a set of statistics regarding crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States. The numbers are alarming. * In Los Angeles, over 95% of arrest warrants issued for the crime of murder are for illegal aliens. * At least 83% of arrest warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens. * The number climbs to 86% for Albuquerque. The Free Republic.......that's your resource. Really?! The resource is FBI statistics … REALLY!! Facts from your article>> "Border violence and crime due to illegal immigration are critically important issues to the people of our state," Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said at the signing of the controversial bill, SB 1070. "There is no higher priority than protecting the citizens of Arizona. We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of the drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life. Backers of the bill maintain that crime is a key reason for the necessity of the tough immigration law. Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce this week told CNN's Tony Harris that half the murders in Phoenix are committed by unauthorized immigrants and that the city is the second in the world in kidnappings.. In Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has long been an advocate of tough measures against illegal immigration. His officers already check the immigration status of people they detain for other crimes, he said. "We've been doing it for a long time, but this [law] gives us just a little more authority," Arpaio told CNN. One way that Arpaio says he measures his success is that he hears that immigrants who entered the country illegally are leaving his county. "It's a good indicator," he said. Human and drug smugglers are being "more aggressive because we're being successful," Escalante said,