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by notJim
2150 days ago
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His remarks are open to interpretation. Note however that he said that "They're not sending their best". One could interpret that to mean that he believes Mexicans as a whole are a fine group of people, but that those who immigrate from Mexico to the US represent a "worse" subgroup of the total group. Charitably, I think this could be characterized as meaning somewhere from "many Mexican immigrants are rapists" to "a higher-than-normal proportion of Mexican immigrants are rapists". In fact we know that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the non-immigrant population. And setting aside the close-reading and the statistics, we should not be naive about his intention, which is to characterize Mexican immigrants as dangerous criminals. Again, should I have to wonder if my coworker believes this about me or my family? |
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Are you looking at illegal immigrants here, or just legal immigrants? Because it seems like this would be trivially false for illegal immigrants.