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Trumped Up Lies About Immigration [Picture]
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 12:28
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onald Trump has opened the floodgates to lies about immigration. Here are some trumped-up myths along with the facts.
- MYTH: Immigrants commit lots of crime. FACT: Immigrants don’t commit much crime. Incarceration rates among young men are lowest for immigrants, especially for the Mexicans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans who make up the bulk of the undocumented population, according to the Justice Department.
- MYTH: The number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is soaring. FACT: The number of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. has declined from 12.2 million in 2007 to 11.3 million now, according to Pew Research Center. Which means the net rate of illegal immigration into the U.S. is less than zero.
- MYTH: Most new immigrants are from Mexico. FACT: More people now immigrate into the U.S. from China and India than from Mexico, according to the Bureau of Immigration. The Latin American immigration boom is ending, and the Asian immigration boom is just beginning.
- MYTH: The U.S. can’t afford more immigrants. FACT: We can’t afford not to have more immigrants because the U.S. population is aging. Twenty-five years ago, each retiree in America was matched by 5 workers. Now for each retiree there are only 3 workers. Without more immigration, in 15 years the ratio will fall to 2 workers for every retiree, not nearly enough to sustain our retiree population.
Demagogues grow on lies. Spread the truth. source
Race/Ethnicity % of US population % of U.S. incarcerated population National incarceration rate (per 100,000)
White (non-Hispanic) 64% 39% 450 per 100,000
Hispanic 16% 19% 831 per 100,000
Black 13% 40% 2,306 per 100,000
2010 census
in 2013 454,100 White (63.7% of the population are White – 196 million), 314,600 Hispanic (16.4% or 49 million)and 526,000 Black(12.6% or 38.9 million) prisoners were incarcerated.
The overall trend is static, but by the % of incarcerated population as a percentage of the racial whole, 40 % of Criminals are Whites but their criminal class is 0.2 % of their population. Of Hispanics 0.6% are criminals, and Blacks 1.3%. Overall criminality is pretty rare but you are 3 times more likely to find an Hispanic criminal than a White criminal as a percentage of the population if you go into an ‘ethic community’ and the US system is pretty harsh in that it incarcerates misdemeanors after multiple offenses. Most criminals are not that criminal in other countries, possibly just roguish petty villains at worst growing and selling weed, legal, barely legal highs or people with mental illnesses in the wrong system.