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Hard-liners Peddle Zombie Lies About Immigrants and Crime

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:03 PM EST
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A new report flies in the face of 100 years of data showing immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes than the native-born.

A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies... attempts to overturn a century's worth of research which has demonstrated repeatedly that immigrants are less likely than the native-born to commit violent crimes or end up behind bars...

...The real agenda behind the CIS report seems to be the promotion of the 287(g) and Secure Communities programs, in which local law-enforcement agencies and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) collaborate for the ostensible purpose of identifying and capturing "criminal aliens."

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whitehood

Funny, in view that in my home state that 32% of the prison population is illegal.

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    Reply#1 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:33 PM EST
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    Funny, in view that in my home state that 32% of the prison population is illegal.

    Meaning 68% are legals.

    The vast majoirty of illegals are good decent peoples. No doubt some of that 32% number are false cases, just do to overzealous rudish necked cops who have a problem with these peoples. I really doubt the whole 32% number anyways, have a source?

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      #1.1 - Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:05 AM EST
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      whitehood

      google up % illegal aliens in prison and you'll get a pagefull.

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        Reply#2 - Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:32 PM EST
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