Immigrants—even illegal immigrants—are half as likely to commit crimes for which they are incarcerated as US-born Americans. Yet ICE is diverting resources from serious offenders to conduct profiling stops, testifies Cato's David J. Bier.

@David_J_Bier Illegals have already committed a crime.

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@David_J_Bier Why should we tolerate any illegal immigrants who commit crimes?

@David_J_Bier By the way, is anyone else interested in how much weight that little prepositional phrase is carrying? You know… “for which they are incarcerated.” Could there be any reasons anyone can think of for incarcerations to differ, after crimes have been committed?

@David_J_Bier 1. The crime study was on legal immigrants 2. It is illegal to ask/report citizenship status 3. Once deportations started crimes (especially car thefts) declined Cato never met an illegal alien they didn't like or an American citizen they didn't hate

@David_J_Bier I agree. It is a shame that the previous admin allowed them to enter. 10MM, or 3%, of the US in just 4 years.

@David_J_Bier What "Americans" were you looking at?

@David_J_Bier Trot out the globalist, cheap illegal labor expert to support flooding the US with low wages. Their studies are filled with more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese sprayed with buckshot

@David_J_Bier This is an utterly moronic argument. Every one of them broke the lyby coming here. ICE is enforcing our immigration laws as written, which is their one and only job. You guys are beclowning yourselves.

@David_J_Bier Hey Dave. Did you account for that minor complication that illegal immigrants are less likely to report crimes?

I don’t give a shit about the crime rate. It should be ZERO because they shouldn’t be here at all. It’s not the rate - it’s the total number. How many total dead Americans are there who were killed by illegals? You think their families care about per capita crime stats or the illegal alien who shouldn’t have been there to murder their family member.

@David_J_Bier They probably aren't incarcerated for operating under-the-table businesses. That doesn't mean they're harmless. This chart illustrates the challenge a legit, regulation compliant, tax paying business and it's employees face when competing VS an illegal alien operation.

So. What. Foreign peoples are not entitled to ethnically cleanse the American people because “something something crime stats.” There is no greater crime than ethnic cleansing, so we won’t accept it. The era of migration is over, and we are going to remigrate tens of millions to restore Western peoples’ sovereignty in our homelands and save our children’s lives.

@David_J_Bier All of the illegal immigrants commit a crime. I'm sorry you're losing your slaves.

@David_J_Bier Measuring convictions vs. arrests is sophistry. Illegals accused of serious crimes generally flee the country if they have the means to do so.

@David_J_Bier So 1 in 2 crimes are committed by illegals but what’s the big deal. Noted

@IdahoNuke @David_J_Bier Yeah. They can go home

@David_J_Bier Illegal aliens in the United States are 100% likely to have committed a crime.

@David_J_Bier Every illegal immigrant has already committed a crime by illegally entering the country

@David_J_Bier 100% of crimes committed by illegals are preventable.

@David_J_Bier How does someone in the U.S. illegally end up employed without breaking the law? I'll wait.

@David_J_Bier This isn’t true. All illegal aliens are criminals. They broke the law entering the country, they don’t pay income tax, and they are generally violent if you remove whites and East Asians. We have a right to protect our borders.

Crime rates are expressed as incidents per 100K population. Thus, It's impossible to determine the illegal alien crime rate because: 1) Nobody knows how how many there are in the population of illegal aliens. The Census was not permitted to determine the size of this population. And, nobody knows how many "got-aways" there were during the Biden invasion. 2) In their crime reports sanctuary cities and states don't indicate which or how many crimes were committed by illegal aliens.

@David_J_Bier We should expect immigrants to commit less crime than the lowest crime demographic Americans. Not the average

@David_J_Bier Every murder, rape, assault.. against an American citizen, and including against legal immigrants, are crimes that would not have happened if our countrys laws were followed.

@David_J_Bier Socialists steal private property; libertarians steal public property. There is no such thing as importing individuals. You are also importing all their descendants. You are importing a gene pool. Now compare immigrant crime to white only crime.

@David_J_Bier And this is why Americans are fed up… Any crime, committed by an illegal alien living in America, is a crime that was preventable… by enforcement at our borders, upholding immigration laws written by Congress & consistent deportations 🙄

@David_J_Bier You are a liar or a fool. Stop shilling for the Chamber of Whores and slave labor. PS is being here illegally, illegal?

@David_J_Bier Well how would we know if their immigration status is not recorded in a sanctuary city. Also if they are deported then they are not incarcerated.

@David_J_Bier "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." — Ronald Coase

@David_J_Bier Your crusade for illegal immigrants is costing CATO tons of support.

@David_J_Bier Every single, one of them committed a crime entering this country and they all have to go. I don’t know how thick you have to be do not understand that.

@David_J_Bier Irrelevant. Yes, we have citizens that are criminals, but we can't deport them. All illegals should be deported....ALL.

@David_J_Bier "Sure they broke in illegally, but we haven't caught them in the act doing worse stuff yet" Yeah bro, they going home.

@David_J_Bier They've all got to go!