Maybe we should rebrand illegal immigrants as “transplants,” a group I’ve noticed many urban leftists expressly despise. They can’t stand it when Don from Idaho moves to their neighborhood (no criminal record, master’s degree in computer science) but welcome José with open arms (his very presence proves a willingness to break the law).
I suspect this is because they can clearly see how Don impacts their lives. Don takes their brunch reservation. Don takes a comp sci job from their slightly less qualified friend. Don lives right next door. But they don’t really interact with José… not in any meaningful way, at least. If anything, they like José because he offers to cut their grass at even more of a cut rate than Enrique.
So here’s our new pitch: “Thousands of transplants set to imminently arrive in YOUR city. Expect a rent spike in your cool, urban neighborhood. Be prepared to lose out on those concert tickets you wanted, a transplant will probably get there first. You will have to book reservations at your favorite restaurant 2, maybe 3 months in advance. You will run into people who *claim* they’re from your city just because they LIVE there!”
With that byline, we would have immigration reform in no time!
<<They can’t stand it when Don from Idaho moves to their neighborhood (no criminal record, master’s degree in computer science) but welcome José with open arms (his very presence proves a willingness to break the law).>>
You know Piper, I think you may be on to something here. I live in horse country. By that I mean old money. They are the most well educated, well bred, clueless people in the world! All around are farms & ranches with gates. So many of them have signs indicating how "woke" they are. It drives me crazy. All of their landscapers, trainers, housekeepers etc. are here illegally. They really think that their kids are the cream that will rise to the top! They don't get that these illegals are their kid's replacements! They think that they have accumulated enough "generational wealth" to protect their kids. That is NOT how it's going to shake down.
I really do not have an issue with legal immigration. We are a land of immigrants. Most of us are 2nd to 4th generation Americans. But the key word is "illegal." No society can function without law and order.
It is time we provide laws against those who purposely fund and abet in this activity called "illegal immigration. " We must go after the NGOs and the donors plain and simple. Let's call on all states to enact the necessary legislation !!
We have WAY MORE than enough CITIZENS to fill necessary jobs here in the US. How many stores do you go in to these days where they have self checkout? A lot! The same goes for fruit & vegitable harvesting. Modern equipment gets better all the time & reduces the need for hands on harvest. AI is already replacing people in many white collar sectors. A 10 year freeze on ALL immigration would do this country good. Think of it as intermittent fasting.
These illegal aliens have no intention of VOTING - how daft must Biden be to not see this. These ferocious MS-13 members would kill and decapitate even Biden, his wife and their daughter without hesitation given the chance. While bringing these killers in, the Dems still wish to take away legally obtained citizens guns. We have enough savages in our major cities without importing more. The Philadelphia area has had so many gun shot victims in the past 72 hours that my phone is almost constantly buzzing (the Citizen's app). Dems are going to eventually wake up and realize they didn't import "voters." They imported killers, terrorists and abused women and children that are marketed into slavery. It's hard to fathom that Biden has any support.
I think they're fine with that. Some element of the Dem Party just really hates our country and longs to destroy it. They don't care if the primitives vote, as long as they move here and America is America no more.
They also flood blue states and cities with higher census numbers. Ensuring Democrat Congressional representation equally for citizens and non-citizens. There was a recent effort to restrict Congressional representation to actual citizens. But the lawless Democrats knew it would hurt their numbers in Congress. Entire blue districts would have been eliminated owing to people leaving NY and CA in droves. So the measure was defeated.
Two points: (1) The illegal aliens don't have to vote. They just provide the needed numbers--the party takes care of the voting. (2) Clearly, Dem voters aren't the brightest--they just believe whatever Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Cenk Uygur, and Crime Boss Biden tell them.
The only causal connection is that they DO IT. But other than that no big deal. Until one of these newcomer darlings gets his hands on an unprotected Biden cousin.
Look at those honest faces….they are just looking for a better life and softer prey. The ability for the elite to hide in secure buildings and suburban fortresses is beginning to dissolve. Crime has become more random than ever. Sooner or later they have to come outside or they can live like an inmate.
I got slammed into at a stop light one night a few years ago by a drunk illegal immigrant who - when I approached his truck to see if he was OK - took off from the scene. He was apprehended and arrested by the local police -- the very nice cop who was helping me out at the scene told me that his colleague had determined that the driver was, in fact, an illegal immigrant (by his own admission!). Fast forward five years and the the idiots in my state - from the governor on down and including a majority of moronic voters - decided that we should give illegals driver's licenses because it will make everyone "safer." You're correct, Ann... we don't need any bogus study to tell us what's going on when the lunacy is occurring right before our very eyes.
Immigration and our open borders must be the Number 1 issue in November's election. Your life and our country's survival depend on strong pols who will fight for impervious borders.
Withhold your vote for any candidate who refers to the invaders as "migrants," "asylum seekers," "refugees," or other such squishy appellations. "Illegals" is the preferred term.
Ann, as you probably know, the FBI has long used the Uniform Crime Reports to distort the narrative on crime to serve whatever their current messaging purpose is. As my astute University Criminology Professor put it: What is crime? Crime is a function of criminal law. If you have more law, you have more crime. If you have no law, you have no crime.
Back when law enforcement was fairly standard, reporting was more accurate and the UCR was a reliable report on whether crime was actually rising or falling. I am sure you noticed that the FBI has become politicized. You can expect that any information coming out of the FBI today is pure political spin. The UCR depend on crimes being reported by local police and accepted by the FBI as accurate. If shoplifters are never prosecuted, and police are prevented from arresting them, then no crime has ever occurred. So you see how this works. Conversely, if the FBI wants to advance a narrative that say, 'white supremacists' are a major criminal concern, they can produce all manner of 'incidents' to support their Psychological Operation.
Example: The FBI’s crime statistics estimates for 2022 show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 1.7% in 2022 compared to 2021 estimates:
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2022 estimated nationwide decrease of 6.1% compared to the previous year.
In 2022, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 5.4% decrease.
Aggravated assault in 2022 decreased an estimated 1.1% in 2022.
Robbery showed an estimated increase of 1.3% nationally.
So according to the FBI, violent crimes were trending down in 2022.
However, Hate Crime Statistics, 2022 provides information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes. In 2022, law enforcement agency participation significantly increased, resulting in 14,631 law enforcement agencies, with a population coverage of 91.7% submitting incident reports. These reports involved 11,634 criminal incidents and 13,337 related offenses as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity. There were over 11,000 single-bias hate crime incidents involving 13,278 victims and 346 multiple-bias hate crime incidents that involved 433 victims. In 2022, the top three bias categories in single-bias incidents were race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion, and sexual-orientation. The top bias types within those bias categories by volume of reported hate crime incidents is Anti-Black or African American for race/ethnicity/ancestry bias, Anti-Jewish for religious bias, and Anti-Gay (male) for sexual-orientation bias.
As Josef Stalin framed it: 'I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.'
Similarly, the FBI can count and interpret crime reports in any way that suits their narrative.
And at least 10 cities no longer cooperate in reporting their crime statistics. The crime report have been sanitized and scrubbed before publication for years. Now that effort is even more intense. I wouldn’t be surprised if the FBI does outreach to law enforcement administrators on ‘ best reporting practices’ . Just like nearly everything in this country, it’s a joke, a lie, a fraud.
Thank you Ann for update on the immigration crisis and invasion. The re-branding of violent crime to make is seem to the peons in society that 1 murder is no different than 10 murders or 100 murders, 1000 murders, 3,000 murders on a beautiful September day. The desensitization of and devaluing of human decency and morals regardless of the God one follows.
CATO Institute was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries. One of those three, Rothbard, was the only real libertarian, and he broke with Koch and CATO just five years later.
True but Rothbard was a crank like many others. You can be brilliant and an intellectual and also be a crank. Rothbard, Koch and Crane broke up because when they ran Ed Clark for President in 1980 as the Libertarian candidate (with the late David Koch as his VP so he could self-fund) they did not take Rothbard's, an academic economist's and pamphleteer's, advice about how to run a political campaign. His ego could not take it. I know lots of weird little stories that never made it into Brian Dougherty's history of libertarian movements, "Radical for Capitalism," that I'd like to put into my own history. Just for fun my book would be titled "Cranky Old Jews." Though Friedman and Nozick weren't cranky like Rand and Rothbard were in their senior years.
He has a house and mortgage in Vienna, VA and several small children. I doubt he can get any other job that would pay him as well. (His wife is very nice btw.) I knew him when he was an intern at Cato right out of college before he went away to get a Masters at the London School of Economics. Then he came back to work at CATO. I wrote something critical in 2017 or so of his immigration papers (I think there is even a "book") and he came over to me at an event to tell me that I don't understand economics. Which I studied at the University of Chicago with a professor who is now a fellow at...The CATO Institute.
Stefan molyneux once pointed out that if you count white’s only crime stats in major cities like Chicago, the murder rate plummets to that of Sweden (Sweden BEFORE mass migration)
The statistics don't matter anyway. One death of one American is enough to say we don't want these worthless pukes in our country. One death is too many. Laken Riley is one death too many; she was brutally murdered by a disgusting piece of shite, illegal parasite. Furthermore, the Americans committing the most crimes, we all know who they are, are the same caliber as the invading parasites!
I've been flat-footed on this BS claim for so long. Thank you, Ann, for exposing one more bit of abject thuggery from The Left. I'm better armed b/c of this article.
It’s not just the usual places like the Times and Washington Post. So-called “conservatives” continue to peddle this lie that it’s all right-wingers imagination, there is no excess illegal alien contribution to crime. Go read the former National Review writer, Mona Charen’s latest at the even more ridiculous outfit than today’s National Review, Bill Kristol’s Bulwark. ‘We need more immigration, not less, blah, blah, blah, there is no outsized influence on crime, blah, blah, blah.’ How did so many complete phonies find their way into conservative journalism?
Great news!
So, when we deport them all, they can go home, and lower the crime rates in their birth nations!
"Root Cause" fixed!
Maybe we should rebrand illegal immigrants as “transplants,” a group I’ve noticed many urban leftists expressly despise. They can’t stand it when Don from Idaho moves to their neighborhood (no criminal record, master’s degree in computer science) but welcome José with open arms (his very presence proves a willingness to break the law).
I suspect this is because they can clearly see how Don impacts their lives. Don takes their brunch reservation. Don takes a comp sci job from their slightly less qualified friend. Don lives right next door. But they don’t really interact with José… not in any meaningful way, at least. If anything, they like José because he offers to cut their grass at even more of a cut rate than Enrique.
So here’s our new pitch: “Thousands of transplants set to imminently arrive in YOUR city. Expect a rent spike in your cool, urban neighborhood. Be prepared to lose out on those concert tickets you wanted, a transplant will probably get there first. You will have to book reservations at your favorite restaurant 2, maybe 3 months in advance. You will run into people who *claim* they’re from your city just because they LIVE there!”
With that byline, we would have immigration reform in no time!
GREAT point:
<<They can’t stand it when Don from Idaho moves to their neighborhood (no criminal record, master’s degree in computer science) but welcome José with open arms (his very presence proves a willingness to break the law).>>
You know Piper, I think you may be on to something here. I live in horse country. By that I mean old money. They are the most well educated, well bred, clueless people in the world! All around are farms & ranches with gates. So many of them have signs indicating how "woke" they are. It drives me crazy. All of their landscapers, trainers, housekeepers etc. are here illegally. They really think that their kids are the cream that will rise to the top! They don't get that these illegals are their kid's replacements! They think that they have accumulated enough "generational wealth" to protect their kids. That is NOT how it's going to shake down.
I really do not have an issue with legal immigration. We are a land of immigrants. Most of us are 2nd to 4th generation Americans. But the key word is "illegal." No society can function without law and order.
It is time we provide laws against those who purposely fund and abet in this activity called "illegal immigration. " We must go after the NGOs and the donors plain and simple. Let's call on all states to enact the necessary legislation !!
We have WAY MORE than enough CITIZENS to fill necessary jobs here in the US. How many stores do you go in to these days where they have self checkout? A lot! The same goes for fruit & vegitable harvesting. Modern equipment gets better all the time & reduces the need for hands on harvest. AI is already replacing people in many white collar sectors. A 10 year freeze on ALL immigration would do this country good. Think of it as intermittent fasting.
These illegal aliens have no intention of VOTING - how daft must Biden be to not see this. These ferocious MS-13 members would kill and decapitate even Biden, his wife and their daughter without hesitation given the chance. While bringing these killers in, the Dems still wish to take away legally obtained citizens guns. We have enough savages in our major cities without importing more. The Philadelphia area has had so many gun shot victims in the past 72 hours that my phone is almost constantly buzzing (the Citizen's app). Dems are going to eventually wake up and realize they didn't import "voters." They imported killers, terrorists and abused women and children that are marketed into slavery. It's hard to fathom that Biden has any support.
I think they're fine with that. Some element of the Dem Party just really hates our country and longs to destroy it. They don't care if the primitives vote, as long as they move here and America is America no more.
They also flood blue states and cities with higher census numbers. Ensuring Democrat Congressional representation equally for citizens and non-citizens. There was a recent effort to restrict Congressional representation to actual citizens. But the lawless Democrats knew it would hurt their numbers in Congress. Entire blue districts would have been eliminated owing to people leaving NY and CA in droves. So the measure was defeated.
Thank you Ann for another masterfully written truth-telling column!
Two points: (1) The illegal aliens don't have to vote. They just provide the needed numbers--the party takes care of the voting. (2) Clearly, Dem voters aren't the brightest--they just believe whatever Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Cenk Uygur, and Crime Boss Biden tell them.
The only causal connection is that they DO IT. But other than that no big deal. Until one of these newcomer darlings gets his hands on an unprotected Biden cousin.
I doubt that any of Biden's female cousins or daughters hasn't already been both unprotected and molested.
...but at least they are scrupulously clean from all the showers they were forced to take with "The Big Guy."
Look at those honest faces….they are just looking for a better life and softer prey. The ability for the elite to hide in secure buildings and suburban fortresses is beginning to dissolve. Crime has become more random than ever. Sooner or later they have to come outside or they can live like an inmate.
Build the wall and deport them all.
I got slammed into at a stop light one night a few years ago by a drunk illegal immigrant who - when I approached his truck to see if he was OK - took off from the scene. He was apprehended and arrested by the local police -- the very nice cop who was helping me out at the scene told me that his colleague had determined that the driver was, in fact, an illegal immigrant (by his own admission!). Fast forward five years and the the idiots in my state - from the governor on down and including a majority of moronic voters - decided that we should give illegals driver's licenses because it will make everyone "safer." You're correct, Ann... we don't need any bogus study to tell us what's going on when the lunacy is occurring right before our very eyes.
Immigration and our open borders must be the Number 1 issue in November's election. Your life and our country's survival depend on strong pols who will fight for impervious borders.
Withhold your vote for any candidate who refers to the invaders as "migrants," "asylum seekers," "refugees," or other such squishy appellations. "Illegals" is the preferred term.
Ann, as you probably know, the FBI has long used the Uniform Crime Reports to distort the narrative on crime to serve whatever their current messaging purpose is. As my astute University Criminology Professor put it: What is crime? Crime is a function of criminal law. If you have more law, you have more crime. If you have no law, you have no crime.
Back when law enforcement was fairly standard, reporting was more accurate and the UCR was a reliable report on whether crime was actually rising or falling. I am sure you noticed that the FBI has become politicized. You can expect that any information coming out of the FBI today is pure political spin. The UCR depend on crimes being reported by local police and accepted by the FBI as accurate. If shoplifters are never prosecuted, and police are prevented from arresting them, then no crime has ever occurred. So you see how this works. Conversely, if the FBI wants to advance a narrative that say, 'white supremacists' are a major criminal concern, they can produce all manner of 'incidents' to support their Psychological Operation.
Example: The FBI’s crime statistics estimates for 2022 show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 1.7% in 2022 compared to 2021 estimates:
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2022 estimated nationwide decrease of 6.1% compared to the previous year.
In 2022, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 5.4% decrease.
Aggravated assault in 2022 decreased an estimated 1.1% in 2022.
Robbery showed an estimated increase of 1.3% nationally.
So according to the FBI, violent crimes were trending down in 2022.
However, Hate Crime Statistics, 2022 provides information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes. In 2022, law enforcement agency participation significantly increased, resulting in 14,631 law enforcement agencies, with a population coverage of 91.7% submitting incident reports. These reports involved 11,634 criminal incidents and 13,337 related offenses as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity. There were over 11,000 single-bias hate crime incidents involving 13,278 victims and 346 multiple-bias hate crime incidents that involved 433 victims. In 2022, the top three bias categories in single-bias incidents were race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion, and sexual-orientation. The top bias types within those bias categories by volume of reported hate crime incidents is Anti-Black or African American for race/ethnicity/ancestry bias, Anti-Jewish for religious bias, and Anti-Gay (male) for sexual-orientation bias.
As Josef Stalin framed it: 'I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.'
Similarly, the FBI can count and interpret crime reports in any way that suits their narrative.
And at least 10 cities no longer cooperate in reporting their crime statistics. The crime report have been sanitized and scrubbed before publication for years. Now that effort is even more intense. I wouldn’t be surprised if the FBI does outreach to law enforcement administrators on ‘ best reporting practices’ . Just like nearly everything in this country, it’s a joke, a lie, a fraud.
There are many reasons that the data are skewed.
1. Police prevented from making arrests.
2. Soros prosecutors won't do their jobs, so perps are never charged.
3. Police harassed when they report crimes, so they don't bother after a while.
4. Sanctuary cities interfere with arrests and prosecutions of illegals.
5. The FBI massages stats to back their false narratives. e.g. white people are a danger to society.
6. Garbage in, garbage out.
Thank you Ann for update on the immigration crisis and invasion. The re-branding of violent crime to make is seem to the peons in society that 1 murder is no different than 10 murders or 100 murders, 1000 murders, 3,000 murders on a beautiful September day. The desensitization of and devaluing of human decency and morals regardless of the God one follows.
Alex Nowrasteh is indeed a malignancy of Beltway libertarianism https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/closed-borders-libertarianism
CATO Institute was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries. One of those three, Rothbard, was the only real libertarian, and he broke with Koch and CATO just five years later.
True but Rothbard was a crank like many others. You can be brilliant and an intellectual and also be a crank. Rothbard, Koch and Crane broke up because when they ran Ed Clark for President in 1980 as the Libertarian candidate (with the late David Koch as his VP so he could self-fund) they did not take Rothbard's, an academic economist's and pamphleteer's, advice about how to run a political campaign. His ego could not take it. I know lots of weird little stories that never made it into Brian Dougherty's history of libertarian movements, "Radical for Capitalism," that I'd like to put into my own history. Just for fun my book would be titled "Cranky Old Jews." Though Friedman and Nozick weren't cranky like Rand and Rothbard were in their senior years.
He is blind and refuses to see what is happening.
He has a house and mortgage in Vienna, VA and several small children. I doubt he can get any other job that would pay him as well. (His wife is very nice btw.) I knew him when he was an intern at Cato right out of college before he went away to get a Masters at the London School of Economics. Then he came back to work at CATO. I wrote something critical in 2017 or so of his immigration papers (I think there is even a "book") and he came over to me at an event to tell me that I don't understand economics. Which I studied at the University of Chicago with a professor who is now a fellow at...The CATO Institute.
Stefan molyneux once pointed out that if you count white’s only crime stats in major cities like Chicago, the murder rate plummets to that of Sweden (Sweden BEFORE mass migration)
The statistics don't matter anyway. One death of one American is enough to say we don't want these worthless pukes in our country. One death is too many. Laken Riley is one death too many; she was brutally murdered by a disgusting piece of shite, illegal parasite. Furthermore, the Americans committing the most crimes, we all know who they are, are the same caliber as the invading parasites!
I would love to see honest stats on citizen vs illegal wrong direction driving on the highways and a second study on proportional DUI arrests.
Next segment we will get to unlicensed drivers, unregistered vehicles and no insurance coverage.
I've been flat-footed on this BS claim for so long. Thank you, Ann, for exposing one more bit of abject thuggery from The Left. I'm better armed b/c of this article.
It’s not just the usual places like the Times and Washington Post. So-called “conservatives” continue to peddle this lie that it’s all right-wingers imagination, there is no excess illegal alien contribution to crime. Go read the former National Review writer, Mona Charen’s latest at the even more ridiculous outfit than today’s National Review, Bill Kristol’s Bulwark. ‘We need more immigration, not less, blah, blah, blah, there is no outsized influence on crime, blah, blah, blah.’ How did so many complete phonies find their way into conservative journalism?
Why are illegals even in our prison? Why don’t they get deported? Why are we wasting money housing and feeding these people?