Crime rates among undocumented immigrants are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records.
Compared to undocumented immigrants, U.S. citizens were twice as likely to be arrested for violent felonies in Texas from 2012 to 2018, two-and-a-half times more likely to be arrested for felony drug crimes, and over four times more likely to be arrested for felony property crimes, according to a study published by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Our net migration with Mexico is functionally zero.
Between 1980 and 2023, the net migration rate of Mexico only registered a positive value in two occasions: 2011 and 2016, when it stood at 0.04 and 0.27 per 1,000 inhabitants, respectively. In 2023, the migration rate was -0.39.
Most of the people at the border are from Northern Triangle counties like Guatemala and El Salvador, not Mexico. And most of them are fleeing drug cartels and gangs that are funded and armed by the U.S.
Mexican drug cartels have been smuggling a vast arsenal of even military-grade weapons out of the U.S. with the help of American citizens, a CBS Reports investigation has found.
Exclusively-obtained U.S. intelligence documents and interviews with half a dozen current and former officials reveal that the American government has known this for years but, sources said, it's done little to stop these weapons trafficking networks inside the United States, which move up to a million firearms across the border annually, including belt-fed miniguns and grenade launchers.
Dozens of cartel gunrunning networks, operating like terrorist cells, pay Americans to buy weapons from gun stores and online dealers all across the country, as far north as Wisconsin and even Alaska, according to U.S. intelligence sources. The firearms are then shipped across the southwest border through a chain of brokers and couriers.
They constantly attack "Democrat cities" for crime when what they really mean is they have more Black people. Democratic policies do not “cause more crime.” The real crime is in the Red States.
Crime in San Francisco under progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin and his predecessor has been lower across the board than in Sacramento, where the old-school DA touts her “tough-on-crime” credential, a new study shows.
The study by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice shows that violent crimes have fallen 29 percent in San Francisco since 2014, including the past two years when Boudin has been in office.
During that same period, in the tenure of conservative prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert, violent crime in Sacramento increased 9 percent.
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A common misconception is that the cities with larger populations have the highest murder rates. New York City, for example, has a population of 8.39 million people but with 300 murders and a murder rate of 3.4 in 2017, it doesn’t even make it into the top 50 cities. [...] The Third Way reported that “some ‘blue cities, like Chicago, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, have seen real and persistent increases in homicides.” But looking at states, The Third Way reported that “murder rates are far higher in Trump-voting red states than Biden-voting blue states.” According to The Third Way, “We found that murder rates are, on average, 40 percent higher in the 25 states Donald Trump won in the last presidential election compared to those that voted for Joe Biden. In addition, murder rates in many of these red states dwarf those in blue states like New York, California, and Massachusetts.
And finally, many of the states with the worst murder rates — like Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, and Arkansas — are ones that few would describe as urban. Only 2 of America’s top 100 cities in population are located in these high murder rate states.”
They cheer when an unarmed black person gets murdered by police or self-selected vigilantes - even when they have their hands up or they're already face down and handcuffed. Which is even more racism.
They repeatedly claimed that George Floyd died from a Fentanyl overdose when the Medical Examiners all specifically testified that he died from asphyxiation by the Police. [As shown at 1:12]
This is besides the point that the criminal injustice system sentences black people for 5 times longer even when they commit the same exact crime.
Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the rate of White Americans, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project.
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“Truly meaningful reforms to the criminal justice system cannot be accomplished without acknowledgement of its racist underpinnings,” Ashley Nellis, a senior research analyst for The Sentencing Project, wrote in the report. “Immediate and focused attention on the causes and consequences of racial disparities is required in order to eliminate them.”
The report released on Wednesday, found “staggering disproportionalities” among the rates of incarceration of Blacks and Latinx people compared to Whites. In 12 states, more than half of the prison population is Black. And Latinx individuals are incarcerated in state prisons at a rate that is 1.3 times the incarceration rate of Whites, according to the report.
And it ignores that despite being targeted and stopped 2.5 times more often they are less likely to be found with guns or drugs.
For years, police records have shown that black drivers tend to be less likely than white drivers to turn up with guns or drugs when searched at traffic stops. At the same time, black drivers are three times more likely than white drivers to be subjected to these searches, according to a 2013 federal survey.
You might object (or not) to the idea of racial profiling — officers taking race into account when determining whether to stop and scrutinize someone. But few would endorse racial profiling that clearly doesn't work. It's apparent, though, that ineffectual, biased policing continues in many places — more black people are stopped and searched for contraband, while more white people are found with it.
And despite this obvious injustice, the GOP simply doesn't give a shit and opposes all police and justice reforms. On top of that the actual most dangerous, deadly and violent cities per capita are in the Red States with lax gun laws.
[T]he CDC's stats for Homicide Mortality the top-rated states are Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, and South Carolina with over 15 deaths per 100,000 people. The MAGAs often talk about deaths in Chicago where, admittedly, there are many shootings, but Illinois is #9 out of the top 10 at only 11.2 deaths per 100,000 persons compared to other states.
It’s the GOP that is losing it’s mind over “CRT” when it's only taught in graduate school. They are the ones banning books and implementing censorship about Black American history — including all the true facts of our history — as well as LGBTQ and gender studies, falsely claiming that it's all “sexual material.” Being LGBTQ is not just about your sexual preferences.
It’s also the GOP that lies about Slavery claiming that we “gained skills” when in fact we already had skills before we arrived. Slavery was not a “benefit” to the enslaved.
None of their examples of “slaves who gained skills” were legitimate.
16 people were listed [by the Florida Board] and apparently, only 2 of them learned a skill while being a slave, and yet that skill wasn’t taught to them because they were a slave but rather in spite of or was incidental to it.
Booker T. Washington taught himself to read after being a slave because a slave learning to read was illegal. And Elizabeth Keckley was a slave who was taught how to be a seamstress by her mother, who was also a slave. The “gained skills” claim was a total fraud.
They call every woman who says they were sexually assaulted by Trump - even after he bragged about doing it - a "Liar", even after they win against him in court. And it's the Red States that are restricting reproductive health in the wake of Dobbs forcing women to travel long distances or else be forced to give birth even if they've been raped or the victim of incest or are dealing with a tragic crisis pregnancy.