Ann Coulter begins her column Tuesday: “In the wake of Kate Steinle’s murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant, mass immigration advocates have begun a campaign of lies in defense of their cheap labor. ‘Studies show,’ they say, that immigrants commit LESS crime than the native population.”
She notes that the main “evidence” given for the claim that immigrants commit less crime than Americans is a “moronic point” about cities with a lot of immigrants like El Paso and New York having low crime rates. Looking at El Paso, she finds that it only has a lower than average crime rate under one FBI crime index using only eight crime categories, while using the FBI’s more complete crime index it has a higher crime rate than the national average. “The reason crime has plummeted around the nation the last few decades is aggressive policing, increased prison sentences and the expansion of concealed carry permits…. the drop in New York City during Giuliani’s first two years as mayor alone accounted for 35 percent of the reduction in the national crime rate.”
Coulter then turns to the “studies” purporting to prove that immigrants are less criminal than Americans that are cited over and over again by the mass media. What she found was shocking. The studies (there were only two) were not comparing the crime rates of immigrants to average Americans. One compared the crime rates of immigrant youth to the crime rate of convicted criminal Americans of the same age group!
Read the column here: http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2015-07-15.html
Posted 7/16/15 by Andrew Lewis