Comments on: Are Immigrants Weeds in the Garden? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/11/are_immigrants_.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: TheYellowElephantBrigade http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/11/are_immigrants_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4135 TheYellowElephantBrigade Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:25:58 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/11/are_immigrants_.html#comment-4135 <p>I give you my rewrite -- just keeping it real, you know?</p> <p>http://www.drunkduck.com/Taking_Stock</p> I give you my rewrite — just keeping it real, you know?

http://www.drunkduck.com/Taking_Stock

]]> By: Binh http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/11/are_immigrants_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4134 Binh Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:08:31 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/11/are_immigrants_.html#comment-4134 <p>Interesting comment from Keith. I am not a mathmatician but I know that politicians manipulate numbers periodically to get votes. I was an immigrant and grew up working side by side with "illegal immigrants". I am not sure how violent crimes are committed by the "illegal immigrants" because I saw them at work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. Maybe they do it after hours? The violent crimes that I know from my experience with these "illegal immigrants" committed are driving without insurance and license. But I am sure that's much more violent than the "legal immigrants" that are habitually driving under the influence.</p> Interesting comment from Keith. I am not a mathmatician but I know that politicians manipulate numbers periodically to get votes. I was an immigrant and grew up working side by side with “illegal immigrants”. I am not sure how violent crimes are committed by the “illegal immigrants” because I saw them at work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. Maybe they do it after hours? The violent crimes that I know from my experience with these “illegal immigrants” committed are driving without insurance and license. But I am sure that’s much more violent than the “legal immigrants” that are habitually driving under the influence.

]]> By: Keith Casey http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/11/are_immigrants_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4133 Keith Casey Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:07:50 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/11/are_immigrants_.html#comment-4133 <p>While the story seems to talk directly about *illegal* immigrants, your post and the accompanying analysis shifts this slightly to talk about *immigrants* in general. These are two fundamentally different groups.</p> <p>While I worked for the DoJ, I was on a group analyzing the people who were captured after coming across illegally in 2002-2003. Depending on the time of year, anywhere from 8.5% (1 in 12) to 12.5% (1 in 8) were already wanted criminals here in the US.... for anything from violent crimes (about 50% - split between assault, murder, etc) to drug charges (25% - trafficking, sales) to sex crimes (25% - rape, prostitution, child-related).</p> <p>While some immigrants are the Sergey Brin'ss of the world, others are the Raphael Resendez Ramirez's... and how they entered this country greatly increases the likelihood of being in the second category.</p> While the story seems to talk directly about *illegal* immigrants, your post and the accompanying analysis shifts this slightly to talk about *immigrants* in general. These are two fundamentally different groups.

While I worked for the DoJ, I was on a group analyzing the people who were captured after coming across illegally in 2002-2003. Depending on the time of year, anywhere from 8.5% (1 in 12) to 12.5% (1 in 8) were already wanted criminals here in the US…. for anything from violent crimes (about 50% – split between assault, murder, etc) to drug charges (25% – trafficking, sales) to sex crimes (25% – rape, prostitution, child-related).

While some immigrants are the Sergey Brin’ss of the world, others are the Raphael Resendez Ramirez’s… and how they entered this country greatly increases the likelihood of being in the second category.

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