We do need immigration reform. But not because immigrants are fueling a violent crime wave. To the contrary, violent crime rates have fallen sharply since President Biden took office, and communities with more immigration tend to have less crime, especially violent crimes. One studyestimated that about 3 percent of undocumented immigrants had felony convictions, compared to 8 percent of the overall
population.
As President Biden noted in his State of the Union Speech, the hypocrisy of right-wing extremists demanding policy changes based on one tragic killing is breathtaking when they continue to block common-sense gun safety measures in the face of tens of thousands of gun
deaths every
Just as hypocritical was their deliberate sabotage of a bipartisan deal on border security for the contemptable purpose of denying President Biden a victory in an election year. A “popular commentator” told Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, chief negotiator of the compromise, he would “destroy” him if he tried to solve the border crisis “because I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election.”
Meanwhile, the asylum seekers fleeing violence in their home
