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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Speeding isn't normally an offense that warrants an arrest, it's just a civil infraction. Why do people try to justify breaking immigration laws by acting as if it's no big deal or it's a stupid concept to begin with, so why follow it?
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For reasons both obvious and not, undocumented entry into the US doesn't warrant an arrest either (deportation instead).
The main issue with immigration over the Mexican border is that there's no real incentive for most people to cross legally. Crossing with a coyote is expensive, dangerous, and generally just a shitty experience - but it's still apparently preferable to attempting to enter the country legally. Unless that changes, no fence or semi-racist Minutemen patrol will stem the tide of illegals.
Also, as an aside, the problem with connecting crime statistics to immigration is that there's been a drop in crime overall, and particularly violent crime, over the last two decades or so, and the reasons are really poorly understood (Levitt connected it to Roe v. Wade and abortions among the poor, for example - so the reasons are likely much broader than any one immigration issue). Any comparison has to account for this general drop first. Second, crimes among illegals (for instance, theft or rape) will likely go underreported, and there is no way to know how many unsolved crimes can be tied to a group of people adept at changing names/information/location - it's a minor point when compared with point 1, but there's a good chance it's significant. That's without getting into the fact that there's really no proof that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a higher rate than non-immigrants once you account for socioeconomic factors.
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