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First of all, the link you provided mixes illegal migration with legal migration, a classic trick trying to downplay the effects of illegal immigration. Second
by Gud 7mo ago
First of all, the link you provided mixes illegal migration with legal migration, a classic trick trying to downplay the effects of illegal immigration.
Second, it compares murder rates only, in the state of Texas, a state well known to have extreme amounts of legal guns. You can hardly generalise from this data.
Here is some interesting data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Denmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Denmark
FWIW I don’t live in the USA.
- simonw 7mo ago> First of all, the link you provided mixes illegal migration with legal migration No it doesn't. I chose that article specifically because it provides figures for native-born citizens, legal immigrants and illegal immigrants: > Over the 10-year period from 2013 to 2022, the homicide conviction rate in Texas for illegal immigrants was 2.2 per 100,000, compared to 3.0 per 100,000 for native-born Americans. The homicide conviction rate for legal immigrants in Texas was 1.2 per 100,000. I accept that the figures in other countries may not work out the same way as figures in the USA.
- Gud 7mo agoI would not trust these numbers either way, because they are from a think thank with a very specific agenda.