I get riled up, annoyed, and several other less-than-salutary things when I hear or read stats regarding illegal alien crime rates. Even the right-wing strongholds like Fox News get this wrong on a regular basis.
Do we have to state the obvious? EVERY ILLEGAL ALIEN IS BY DEFINITION ILLEGAL. The baseline crime rate for adult illegal aliens is 100%. (I’m not including children who are brought in by their families, drug cartels, or human traffickers, of course.) Every adult that brings those children into the US in violation of our country’s laws is a criminal, and in cases like the aforementioned, they are sometimes guilty of multiple crimes — in the US! — as soon as they illegally cross the border. This is not to speak of crimes they may be guilty of in their home countries.
Until very recently there was no mention of “undocumented immigrants” in the US Code. True, the current batch of nincompoops in Washington are changing that, trying to soften the language to a state of meaninglessness. But read between the lines even in those sections and you’ll find that there are common labels for aliens:, legal and illegal, and “authorized” and “unauthorized” meaning essentially the same things.
(By the way, even the legal ones don’t come from outer space, so my apologies for the clickbait in the headline!)
Aliens are Real!!! The Law Says So!
I get riled up, annoyed, and several other less-than-salutary things when I hear or read stats regarding illegal alien crime rates. Even the right-wing strongholds like Fox News get this wrong on a regular basis.
Do we have to state the obvious? EVERY ILLEGAL ALIEN IS BY DEFINITION ILLEGAL. The baseline crime rate for adult illegal aliens is 100%. (I’m not including children who are brought in by their families, drug cartels, or human traffickers, of course.) Every adult that brings those children into the US in violation of our country’s laws is a criminal, and in cases like the aforementioned, they are sometimes guilty of multiple crimes — in the US! — as soon as they illegally cross the border. This is not to speak of crimes they may be guilty of in their home countries.
Until very recently there was no mention of “undocumented immigrants” in the US Code. True, the current batch of nincompoops in Washington are changing that, trying to soften the language to a state of meaninglessness. But read between the lines even in those sections and you’ll find that there are common labels for aliens:, legal and illegal, and “authorized” and “unauthorized” meaning essentially the same things.
(By the way, even the legal ones don’t come from outer space, so my apologies for the clickbait in the headline!)