It seems that every time an immigrant commits a crime, especially if it is a murder, there is a rush to ascertain their immigration status. Presently the default position is that they are here illegally, and if that isn’t the case, their legal status may be mentioned eventually, but not with the same energy and frequency as the belief they are illegal.

If there is any attempt at clarification at all.

This is followed by the president and his supporters bringing up immigration, the need to secure the borders, the lack of patriotism of those who do not think as they do, and the fake claim that immigrants commit the greatest number of crimes and their toddlers are members in training of MS 13.

And this gross and self serving political use of the situation is not limited to the immigrant, but the person killed is remembered and spoken about only in relation to the murderer and not their personhood while being reduced to a political tool by having us concentrate on the murderer’s assumed illegal status and not the victim for whom no real sympathy is expressed. The murderer gets inclusion in speeches, opinion pieces in newspapers, and star treatment by those county sheriffs who just love ICE and long to be it. The victim gets thoughts and prayers, and gets pushed off to the side so we can get back to badmouthing Brown people.

President Donald Trump pushes the idea that immigrants are more dangerous than people who already live here.

He stated at a gathering of families whose loved ones were killed by someone here illegally,

“So here are just a few statistics on the human toll of illegal immigration. According to a 2011 government report, the arrests attached to the criminal alien population included an estimated 25,000 people for homicide, 42,000 for robbery, nearly 70,000 for sex offenses, and nearly 15,000 for kidnapping. In Texas alone, within the last seven years, more than a quarter million criminal aliens have been arrested and charged with over 600,000 criminal offenses. You don’t hear that.

I always hear that, ‘Oh, no, the population’s safer than the people that live in the country.’ You’ve heard that, fellas, right? You’ve heard that. I hear it so much, and I say, ‘Is that possible?’The answer is it’s not true. You hear it’s like they’re better people than what we have, than our citizens. It’s not true.”

But although he said there was a study, like people on Facebook who subscribe to conspiracy theories, he did not cite which study he was referring to. His saying there was an unnamed study, just as with his unnamed friends and his lots of people, is supposed to just be accepted because he said so.

Looked at closely, his statement only provides statistics on the number of crimes committed by the  criminal alien population, but doesn’t specify whether those committing the crimes are in the country illegally or legally, or even if they live here or are just passing through as tourists or are here working at Mar a Lago on work visas. They are simply labeled “criminal aliens”.

Regarding his reference to Texas, it was found that in 2015 Texas police arrested 815,689 native-born Americans. Of the immigrants arrested, 37,776 were in the country illegally and 20,323 legally. This means that the arrest rate for illegal immigrants was 40% below native-born Americans.

Yes, immigrants, legal or otherwise, do commit crimes, but in order to say they commit more than the native born you have to rely on the total of both groups not just the total of one. More implies there is another number you should mention.

A Research study published in Social Science Quarterly in 2016 found no association between immigrant population size and increased violent crime.

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To justify his un-American border policy Trump stated in June,

“Sixty-three thousand Americans since 9/11 have been killed by illegal aliens. This isn’t a problem that’s going away, it’s getting bigger.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 260,743 homicides in the United States from 2002 through 2016 making it a stretch to claim that undocumented immigrants, who make up roughly 3% of the population committed a quarter of all homicides in the United States during those years.

Trump got this figure from a 2006 statement by Republican Steve King of Iowa who opposed the “Day Without An Immigrant” campaign and wanted to turn people against it, and not from any study or unbiased source.

It is bad enough to misrepresent facts and make sweeping, misleading generalizations to scare people into supporting the separation of families and denying entry to people fleeing danger at home, but to broadly and falsely paint people to achieve a desired result is ridiculous.

What if people used statistics to conclude that, since heterosexual marriage causes spousal murder as does heterosexual dating, heterosexual relationships should be banned and males and females should only get together to “make babies”?

Heterosexual marriage is killing people.

Participants should be deported, or the practice stopped

Analyzing the murders of women in 18 states from 2003 to 2014, the CDC found a total of 10,018 deaths with 55% being violence-related, and of those, 93 % involved a current or former partner or someone close to the victim.

Strangers, meanwhile, were responsible for only 16% of all female homicides.

The most common motivations for the murders appeared to be arguments and jealousy with the majority of victims being women under 40 years of age, 15%  of whom were pregnant, and 54% victims of firearms.

Only 5-7% of murders in heterosexual relationships were male.

Now, if we are upset with the shifting and doubt filled number of deaths at the hands of immigrants and accept that as a reason to exclude and remove, why would it be unthinkable to exclude and remove heterosexual males who are in or intend to enter into an intimate relationship with a woman when the numbers are clear and don’t lie?