Interesting. TD responds "Americans support immigration, legal immigration” to a letter detailing how our system places insurmountable obstacles in the way of gaining citizenship. That's a bit like saying, ‘I’m in favor of buying my daughter a pony for her birthday, provided it’s a unicorn’.
As for vetting, my immigrant grandparents weren't vetted. Were yours TD? I doubt it. The History Channel confirms that “At peak, most immigrants arriving at Ellis Island were processed in a few hours” and “no passports or visas were needed to enter. In fact, no papers were required at all”.
This may shock TD, but crime isn't spiking, it has been dropping for over 20 years. NYPD crime stats confirm that major crimes were 21.8% lower in 2023 than in 2001, 40.5% lower than 1998, 70.5% lower than 1993 and 76% lower than in 1990. Do a google search and prove it for yourself. And immigrants pose no greater threat than anyone else. A 2020 study from Texas, arguably the most impacted state, analyzed arrests from 2012 to 2018 and found “Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.”
I agree with TD on one thing, we get what we vote for. If we keep electing Republicans who have a vested interest in maintaining a broken system, the system will stay broken.
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