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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (880342)	8/15/2015 8:00:44 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1587370

I posted info from the Congressional Register and the GAO which showed illegals have a very high crime rate: 27% of prison inmates in the US are illegal aliens. Based on the Congressional Register for 2012: http://www.blufftontoday.com/blog-post/9mmhipchick/2014-04-16/illegal-alien-prison-population-numbers Counting only federal prisons: Incarcerated Illegal Aliens 25% According to the Government Accountability Office, the percent of inmates in federal prisons who are in the country illegally. The GAO also found that criminal illegal aliens were arrested an average of 7 times. (Source: GAO) https://www.numbersusa.org/pages/incarcerated-illegal-aliens-0 You posted a deliberately misleading study presented by the Wa Post which wasn't based on an examination of illegal aliens at all, but of legal immigrants. It didn't address the number of illegals held in US prisons. Shame on the WaPo and you. You're taking the side of criminals against the rest of the nation.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (880342)	8/15/2015 8:30:42 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB POKERSAM Respond to of 1587370

Every Pro-Immigration Claim is a Lie The bogus study the WaPo posted for propaganda purposes only compared immigrant crime to our ghetto residents, not to all Americans. This is just one example of a general truth, everything liberals claim is based on a hoax. Ann Coulter .... I looked up some of these alleged studies this weekend. They’re all hidden behind ridiculous Internet paywalls. I was often only the sixth person to read them. It turns out that neither Piquero nor Bersani compared immigrant crime to “the overall population” — as the British Guardian recently claimed in an article purporting to prove Donald Trump wrong. Rather, they compare immigrants’ crime rate to the crime rate of America’s most criminally inclined subgroups. Thus, for example, once you get past the paywall, you will find that Piquero and Bersani’s joint study, “Comparing Patterns and Predictors of Immigrant Offending Among a Sample of Adjudicated Youth,” used as its base group “adolescents who were found guilty of a serious offense.” THAT’S NOT A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF AMERICANS! It’s a representative sample of teenagers who are convicted criminals. Similarly, professor Bersani’s oft-cited, but never-read study, “An Examination of First and Second Generation Immigrant Offending Trajectories,” looked at a population group that included “an over-sample of Hispanic and African-American youth.” Instead of immigrants who are less crime-prone than our native blacks and Hispanics, we were hoping for immigrants less criminal than our Norwegians. True, as Bersani explains, “because many immigrants initially settle in disadvantaged environments and are exposed to a number of crime-inducing risk factors, their experiences may be similar to many native-born minorities — particularly the African-American population.” But here’s an idea: How about NOT taking in immigrants who are poor, uneducated, come from dysfunctional families and settle in disadvantaged environments? Amazingly, Bersani’s study also produced this startling result: There is very little difference in crime rates between young native whites and blacks. Why no headlines about that? Instead of looking at “studies,” how about we just count the number of immigrants arrested, convicted and imprisoned in America? [iframe tabindex="0" title="Disqus" id="dsq-indicator-north" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border: currentColor !important; top: 0px !important; width: 592px !important; height: 29px !important; overflow: hidden !important; display: none !important; position: fixed !important; z-index: 2147483646 !important; min-height: 29px !important; max-height: 29px !important; min-width: 592px !important; max-width: 592px !important; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true" data-disqus-uid="indicator-north"][/iframe][iframe tabindex="0" title="Disqus" id="dsq-indicator-south" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border: currentColor !important; width: 592px !important; height: 29px !important; bottom: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; display: none !important; position: fixed !important; z-index: 2147483646 !important; min-height: 29px !important; max-height: 29px !important; min-width: 592px !important; max-width: 592px !important; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true" data-disqus-uid="indicator-south"][/iframe]...... humanevents.com