Posted by: Dale Franks on Monday, April 03, 2006 Jon's post immediately below moves me to comment that I also note, once again, the usual bait and switch: Heather McDonald discovered that illegal immigrants in 2004 accounted for 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants in Los Angeles and two-thirds of unserved felony warrants. [...] On the other hand, the most comprehensive survey to date of national crime data concludes, "In the small number of studies providing empirical evidence, immigrants are generally less involved in crime than similarly situated groups, despite the wealth of prominent criminological theories that provide good reasons why this should not be the case."Notice how we went from a statistic about "illegal immigrants" to stats about the relatively peaceful "immigrants"? It's funny how often you see that trick used. Moreover, it's a non-sensical comparison. It's like saying, "NYPD reports that 95% of the cases brought by its Organized Crime Bureau concern Italian-American Mafiosi. Yet, Italian Americans participate in criminal activity at a lower rate than similar segments of the population." Call me crazy, but I'd think that Mafiosi whose names end in vowels probably participate in crime at a far greater rate that "Italian-Americans". That would tell me that the OCB is right to slap the cuffs on Mafiosi, and ignore Italian-Americans in general. From the original article, this caught my eye, too: On the work front, Hispanic unemployment has tumbled to 5.5 percent, only slightly above the national average of 4.7 percent and considerably lower than the black unemployment rate of 9.3 percent.Huh. I wonder if the ready availability of 11 million illegal immigrants who are willing to take jobs at low wages has anything at all to do with the relatively higher rate of unemployment among our black citizens. Still, while it's fun get snarky over these kinds of arguments, they really aren't compelling. My concern is with assimilation, not economics. I'll happily grant that all of the open-borders economic arguments are true. So what? Allowing a large group of foreign persons into the country, and making no effort to assimilate them, will culminate in a disaster. Look at what is happening in Europe as a result of unbridled Muslim immigration. We're on a very similar path. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who comes here and makes the effort to become an American, and to subscribe to our ideals and values, is welcome. Those who prefer to maintain their primary allegiance to another country need to go back to that country, rather than trying to make mine a mirror image of the Third World hellhole they hated so much that they risked their lives to flee it. |
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