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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by notch898a on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:05PM (#35072475)
Consider something like 1/3 of Americans have a criminal history. Maybe 1 of 30 of those are incapable of living in society. Keeping out fugitives makes sense but I totally disagree with keeping out criminals, particularly when in much of the world criminal often just means you did something the government didn't like.
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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by andrekandre on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:06PM (#35073339) 

  > Consider something like 1/3 of Americans have a criminal history.
really? not as in traffic tickets, but actual conviction of a crime?
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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by rootusrootus on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:33PM (#35073658)
No. Not sure sure exactly where it started, but it gets attributed to Andrew Cuomo often enough, citing the 1 in 3 number. That comes from FBI statistics, which define a criminal record to include arrests.

Here is a discussion: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/18/andrew-cuo...

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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by rootusrootus on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:36PM (#35073706)
That includes arrest records, not just convictions. About 3% of the population has served any time in prison, and about 8% of the population have been convicted of a felony.

https://news.uga.edu/total-us-population-with-felony-convict...

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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by notch898a on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:12PM (#35074104)
Are you familiar with the US immigration system? That is exactly what they consider in criminal history. What they examine includes arrests, not just convictions, so it's precisely the stat we want.

See form I-485 for PR:

  24.  Have you EVER been arrested, cited, charged, or detained for any reason by any law enforcement officer (including but not limited to any U.S. immigration official or any official of the U.S. armed forces or U.S. Coast Guard)?
I'm not sure what we're talking about if you're excluding non-convicted arrests, but it aint immigration.
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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by bumby on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:46PM (#35076888)
Immigration is generally a civil offense (I.e., misdemeanor). Generally, deportation is not an offense that prohibits you from entering again legally.

What programs like Operation Streamline do is take advantage of the fact that immigrants dont understand the legal system and, under the guise of a speedier procedure, effectively coerce immigrants to acquiesce to a criminal conviction. This actually does prevent them from coming legally at a later date once deported.

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