Migrant crime is a “fake problem,” says Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, a pro-migration leader in the Democrat Party.
\n\nMurphy told a friendly audience in Connecticut on August 26:
\n\nNobody likes to hear this, but immigrants — first-generation immigrants — and undocumented immigrants both commit crimes at rates lower than natural-born Americans, than people that are born here in this country. So, if you want to live in a safe community, you are actually better off living in a community with people that just got to the United States of America.
\n\nMigrants “can in fact lower the crime rate, but it doesn’t help anybody who got killed by illegal aliens,” responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
\n\nDemocrats ignore the death toll from migrants because they want to see migration as an unblemished economic and civic benefit, Krikorian said:
\n\nThe open migration people hold that view as a almost religious principle … They’re just not able to say that “Immigration has costs and benefits, and on balance, I’m for it [and] I acknowledge that there are costs.”
\n\nThey can’t say that because immigration has to be an undiluted good [under the] “oppressor-oppressed” calculus that the left bases…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
