On Feb 27, 5:51 pm, "drydem" wrote:
> On Feb 23, 10:01 am, "Prisoner at War"
> wrote:
>
> > [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/500045p-421631c.html]
>
> synopsis on a second reading of the above hotlink:
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> When a chinese-american NYU freshman, Wesley Chan, justifies
> his support for a Young Republican "Find the Illegal Immigrant"
> rally by asserting that illegal immigration is a source of crime,
> a hispanic editorialist Juan Gonzalez takes exception and
> recalls the repealled racially discriminatory U.S. laws and
> implies that today's laws may also be racially discrimatory.
>
> sidenote:
> ------------------
> Since 1967, US general immigration policy was changed to be racially
> neutral. However, the Dept of State political Asylum and refugee
> policy
> still favors applicants with a european cultural background over non-
> european
> cultural backgrounds (asian/african) on grounds than applicants with
> european cultural background/language skill will have an easier time
> assimilating
> into US society.
>
> For the last decade, non white hispanic immigrants make up the
> majority of all new legal immigrants in the USA. Currently, it is
> estimated
> that non-white hispanic immigrants make up the majority of all illegal
> immigrants
> in the USA. The crime often associated with illegal immigration is
> human
> trafficking/smuggling - with the crime victims of human smuggling are
> often
> illegal immigrants themselves.
Just this week some University of California study was relased to
media fanfare stating how immigrant populations tend to exhibit *less*
criminal behavior compared to native-born American populations of the
same age.
Being the seasoned New Yorker that I am, I immediately wondered, just
which immigrant populations, and which American ones?
The report on the radio didn't mention exactly which American ones
(i.e., black and hispanic populations?), but the "immigrant
populations" was reported to have included *Asians* -- which,
naturally, means less crime overall.
If they'd factored out the Asians, I wonder if the findings on
immigration crime would have been different....
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