[nxor3]

In my hometown, a seventh grade boy was strangled to death by his mom's boyfriend, who had been deported twice and convicted multiple times. It's comical to me you think people abandoned liberals out of 'pure mass-media-induced' spite. I hate this site.

[mindslight]

For sure, that is a tragedy with failures of multiple institutions. But a single anecdote doesn't form a general argument! I would say that the main result of putting emphasis on such anecdotes is to make people crave overly simplistic solutions - that exact "mass-media-induced spite" I am talking about.

In this instance, if the murderer had been prevented from reentering the country, this murder would not have happened. Everyone can agree this would have been a much better outcome.

But we can easily imagine a slightly different situation where the mother gets deported, the kid stays here in the "care" of the boyfriend, and then gets subsequently strangled by the citizen-but-criminal boyfriend.

Without data and a logical model, we're hopelessly lost in the weeds. Data for putting in context how prevalent various types of these occurrences actually are. And a logical model that keeps the focus on the relevant details. For instance, the [presumably criminal] convictions seem much more relevant here than the immigration status. And the immigration status seems like a red herring that feeds into those simplistic answers.

[daveguy]

It's disturbing to me that you think one criminal is representative of all immigrants. Especially considering immigrants as a whole commit fewer crimes than citizens. The immigrants, especially undocumented, mostly try to keep a low profile and work. But you, rando new account, are trying to imply they are all bloodthirsty criminals because of one tragic case you read about in the news.