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> "when criminality under a given law starts to show significant correlations with an ethnicity/nationality/race/gender/orientation/etc." Yes, immigration law
by caseysoftware 7y ago
> "when criminality under a given law starts to show significant correlations with an ethnicity/nationality/race/gender/orientation/etc."
Yes, immigration law - both application and enforcement - tends to correlate highly with nationality. I'd wager speeding tickets also correlate with drivers.
What should it correlate with?
- throwawaysea 7y agoIf application and enforcement correlates with nationality because those violating the law are more likely to be of a given nationality, then I don’t think that is a problem. But I think enforcing the law to a different degree against similar violations of distant nationalities wouldn’t be fair. That is, if 10 Canadians and 10 Mexicans crossed into the US illegally, and all faced similar consequences, I think that’s fine. If there are only 1 Canadian and 10 Mexican violators and this causes limited border patrols to be distributed proportionally between the US-Canada and US-Mexico border, I think that’s still fine. But if 10 violating Canadians and 10 violating Mexicans who were all apprehended faced different consequences, that would not be fair.