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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by enkid on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:31PM (#35943262)
I mean, statistically illegal immigrants in the US are less likely to commit violent crime. [0] Truthfully, that audience probably isn't too concerned with statistics.

[0]https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117

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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by hablog on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:38PM (#35943307)
I mean, yeah, this is kind of obvious if you think about it. The majority of violent crime in the US is committed by black people, so inherently a marginal increase in any other ethnic group (including hispanic) would (on expectation) lead to a decrease in per-capita violent crime, unless illegal immigrants were more violent than legal immigrants (which we have no evidence of).
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