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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs the Border in Crisis? 'We're Doing Fine, Quite Frankly,' a Border City Mayor Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/us/border-trump-immigration.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-newsThere is not a crisis in the city of Brownsville with regards to safety and security, said Mr. Martinez, who has lived in Brownsville since the late 1970s. Theres no gunfire. Most of the people that are migrating are from Central America. Its not like theyre coming over here to try to take anybodys job. Theyre trying to just save their own lives. Were doing fine, quite frankly.
The man being quoted is the mayor of Brownsville.
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Unauthorized crossings along the border with Mexico have sharply declined over the past two decades, according to government data. From the 1980s to the mid-2000s, the government reported annually apprehending around 1 million to 1.6 million people who tried to cross the southwestern border illegally. That number has been halved in recent years. By month, border apprehensions averaged more than 81,588 under President George W. Bush, declined to more than 34,647 under President Barack Obama and now stand at 24,241 under Mr. Trump.
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Research shows that incarceration rates of both legal and undocumented immigrants across the country are lower than those of native-born Americans, and that the net economic impact of immigration is positive.
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In Nogales, Ariz., which borders and shares its name with a Mexican city, the number of violent crimes plummeted by more than 70 percent from 1997 to 2016. Similar trends can be seen in San Luis, Somerton and Yuma. The overall crime rate in Arizona has also dropped by more than a third from 1993 to 2016. During that same time, the states undocumented-immigrant population more than doubled, according to the Pew Research Center.
We should all keep this article handy. Good stats and information to refute the crap the deplorables are pulling out of their asses.
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Is the Border in Crisis? 'We're Doing Fine, Quite Frankly,' a Border City Mayor Says (Original Post)
Squinch
Jun 2018
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bdamomma
(63,978 posts)1. hmm........
facts don't lie.
only tRump. AH
treestar
(82,383 posts)2. All the Orange Toxin's doing, with the help of the media.
Manipulating people.
UTUSN
(70,810 posts)3. K&R for, wish I had the power to pin this.
moondust
(20,032 posts)4. CBC documentary tonight
called "Trumps War on the Border" was an hour long, pretty comprehensive, and I thought very good. They interviewed some local border residents and vigilante groups, border patrol agents, as well as some guys from Humane Borders who set out bottled water in the desert to help migrants.
Unfortunately, the documentary at the link cannot be played outside Canada, but it might be possible using a VPN with a Canadian server.
Squinch
(51,096 posts)5. I'll try and get it. Did it concur with this article that the problem is a figment?
moondust
(20,032 posts)6. I think they tried
to present different sides and let viewers decide for themselves what to think.