Writer says no, presenting statistics.

Reader Ted Ternes rebuts. Go to the Sacramento Bee piece to check on what he rebuts, argument by argument. Three rebuttals seem relevant to overall understanding of the issue:

“Immigration and crime have had an inverse relationship over the years”

implies that an increase in immigrants reduces crime. That is absurd since the reduction in crime is a function of numerous factors, the economy being chief among them. . . .

“Immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated in California than U.S.-born adults are”

. . . ignores the fact that many illegal immigrants that commit crimes . . . are deported, rather than incarcerated. . . .

“Immigration offenses, not violent crimes, account for most federal immigrant convictions, at 31 percent”

 is. . .  flawed because it only deals with convictions; again, many illegal immigrants are deported for committing crime, and as such are never convicted. . . .

The Ternes comments, here edited for relevance, serve to outline the argument.

via Do immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally commit more crimes? | The Sacramento Bee

Give the lady a break, ok? She just doesn’t recall. How many times does she have to tell you? Us?

Campaign no spikka da English when it comes to candidate with maybe two husbands.

Ditto intimidated Somali community, whose objectors speak only anonymously because not safe in Minnesota or for their people back in Somali-land.

Immigrants who ought to be vetted Trump-style? It would seem so.

(BTW, Dem candidate, in case you feared to ask. Say it ain’t so, you know.)

. . . the gymnast who wouldn’t stand for a TRULY oppressive regime.

She don’t know, she don’t know, she don’t know NOTHIN’.