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I understand you because when I was a leftist I also believed that the world was like Alice in Wonderland.
Surely all those who cross illegally are engineers who are going to contribute their talent and effort to the country, and they are not going to drive wages down or push real estate prices up, nor are there any drug dealers, pimps, women prostituted against their will or any kind of criminals among them. Ironies aside, you only have to go to the previous page to see that Alice was a story:
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I understand you because when I was a leftist I also believed that the world was like Alice in Wonderland.
Surely all those who cross illegally are engineers who are going to contribute their talent and effort to the country, and they are not going to drive wages down or push real estate prices up, nor are there any drug dealers, pimps, women prostituted against their will or any kind of criminals among them. Ironies aside, you only have to go to the previous page to see that Alice was a story:
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Translation: Immigration is a problem because many of the people crossing the border are criminals. Let's analyse your theory a little bit... let's take an state in which complaints about immigration are frequently use
....drug related crime:
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate#:~:text=For%20drug%20offenses%2C%20too%2C%20undocumented,almost%2030%25%20during%20that%20time
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For drug offenses, too, undocumented immigrants were less than half as likely to be arrested as native-born U.S. citizens
So it seems that they are actually rising the standard to the proud citizens. I hope you do not feel threatened by their honesty.
On other crime....
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They concluded, “There is no evidence that the prevalence of undocumented immigrant crime has grown for any category.”
It seems that you are the one living in wonderland, where facts happen magically when a XTweet makes them real.