That explosion in violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border everyone keeps talking about? You know, the one related to illegal immigration? Uh, seems there isn’t one, no matter what Sen. John McSame, Gov. Klan Brewer and the rest of Arizona’s xenophobic nitwits say.
According to The Arizona Republic‘s Dennis Wagner, “FBI Uniform Crime Reports and statistics provided by police agencies, in fact, show that the crime rates in Nogales, Douglas, Yuma and other Arizona border towns have remained essentially flat for the past decade, even as drug-related violence has spiraled out of control on the other side of the international line. Statewide, rates of violent crime also are down.”
Gosh, imagine that. Republicans lying through their pearly whites for political purposes. Who’da thunk it?
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They are probably applying the domino theory. Remember that one?
nationally, crime rates among hispanic neighborhoods match up exactly with black, white, yellow, purple, or plaid neighborhoods of the same socio-economic mix. not a spoke’s-width worth of difference. just shows it’s all about poverty and opportunity and not what language you speak.
steve-o has a point – poverty=crime. The crime that makes the stat sheets, that is. muggings, robbery, rape, murder, etc make the headlines and give people that sense of outrage. The white color crime, unless its HUGE, doesn’t have the same pizazz the Reps are crowing about. Besides, that’s teir crime, and they don’t want that exposed.