What should be done about illegal immigration?

When I heard the joke "Why don't Mexicans and blacks have kids together? -Because they don't want sons who are too lazy to steal" , I thougt the Mexicans were supposed to be the lazy ones, according to the stereotype. This thread has made me think: Was it the other way around?

Please answer this very serious question.

(Hi, dis!)

Foxy, suggesting mexican immigrants are prone to crime is bigoted, whether it be in a discussion of borders or not. I've seen no credible evidence that suggests illegal aliens are anymore prone to violent crime than anyone else. Neither have you. Pretending you have, because it will support your selfish desire to not share you country with them is bigotry.

I call all my best friends (ok, if I actually had any friends)"beaners" 'cause they know I hate P.C. and realize that I just love their frijoles.

Oversight, Foxy ... not Strawman. Please substitute Illegal Alien anywhere you see Mexican immigrant. Were that intentional; it would indeed be a straw man. It wasn't, so clinging to one tiny error is hardly a comprehensive response. Correct the error (please), and your response in its entirety is null and void.

Foxfyre,

Let me explain it to you.

We are all reacting because you made posts that seem to imply that illegal immigrants are more likely to commit violent crimes than other people living in the United States.

This is a good example of defamation.

If you didn't make defamatory comments, people wouldn't be talking about racism.

If media accounts are to be believed, immigration to the United States is a primary cause of increased crime rates. Review of recent anticrime policies targeting immigrants would lead one to the same conclusion. Yet most empirical research suggests precisely the opposite conclusion: many immigrant groups consistently demonstrate significantly lower crime rates than do native populations.

Foxy, you speed. IAs speed too. How is it any different when he does it? Americans drive drunk. IAs drive drunk too. How is it any different? Your hypocrisy, which you've yet to address is that when an American commits a violation not against people or property (like you), they ARE NOT more likely to commit crimes against people or property. Yet, when an IA commits a violation not against people or property (like border crossing), they ARE more likely to commit crimes against people or property. Stop dancing and address this hypocrisy head on.

I will agree however, that entering the country illegally is not automatically a forecast of more criminal activity.

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I would be tthe same steak dinner that there is proportionately a higher violent crime rate among illegal immigrants than there is in the whole population of the USA.

Foxy wrote:

I will agree however, that entering the country illegally is not automatically a forecast of more criminal activity.

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I would be tthe same steak dinner that there is proportionately a higher violent crime rate among illegal immigrants than there is in the whole population of the USA.

These two comments are interesting in themselves.

The question is WHY do you believe there is "proportionately a higher violent crime rate among illegal immigrants than there is in the whole population of the USA."

There is no credible evidence that this is the case-- and much of the evidence you have posted is wrong.

My objection to this is that it is defamation. The purpose is to spread fear and hatred of illegal immigrants which goes beyond one's objection to border crossing.