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> Is living in fear of crime from unrestricted illegal immigration a better fate?

It's certainly a purely theoretical fate. I have zero reason to believe undocumented people are more dangerous than citizens. I mean, intuitively, they risk so much more - namely deportation and torture. If I followed a Republican philosophy of tough on crime, I would then say they must be committing less crime.

Do we have any reason to believe they're more dangerous? And I mean real reasons, like statistics. No Patrick, "they're vaguely brown" is not a real reason. No Patrick, "homogeneous population" isn't a real reason either.

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Immigrants are statistically less likely to commit crimes than naturalized Americans, and are far more likely to start companies and be entrepreneurs. Legal immigration is great and we should allow more people to come to the county, via expanded programs like H1-B visas.

That's a really different thing than one million people illegally entering the country and expecting that to just work out. Can you imagine the response Japan would have if a million Americans crossed into Japan illegally and expected to live and work there?

[FirmwareBurner]

>That's a really different thing than one million people illegally entering the country and expecting that to just work out. Can you imagine the response Japan would have if a million Americans crossed into Japan illegally and expected to live and work there?

Bingo. So why are some western countries supposed to tolerate this?

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> That's a really different thing than one million people illegally entering the country and expecting that to just work out.

Sure, but this isn't my point. Nobody has given me any reason to believe it won't work out, included our undocumented immigrants. I live in Texas, I should be seeing the worst of it. But uh... no... everything is pretty chill here. Not really seeing any of these doomerist complaints about those darn illegals.

> Can you imagine the response Japan would have if a million Americans crossed into Japan illegally and expected to live and work there?

I sure can, it would probably be piss-poor. Because Japan has a strong ethnic identity and community-oriented culture. We don't.

We're not Japan, nor do we really want to be Japan.

[FirmwareBurner]

>I live in Texas, I should be seeing the worst of it. But uh... no... everything is pretty chill here.

Nation wide policies and society don't work on how your own chill vibe feels where you live, but on research, statistics and most importantly on the opinions of the democratic majority.

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Sure, none of which have been shared and as such I will continue to treat as theoretical.