So says USA Today. The governor said, “If that means that fewer people are breaking the law, that is absolutely an accomplishment.” The good news is that at least one of the criminals–I mean business owner–plans to move to New York City. It would be nice if the aftermath of this law could to be…
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I’ve said it before, but now there’s yet more academic support, this study by Tim Wadsworth. You can’t easily access the study and it’s not light reading if you can. But Christopher Dickey wrote a very readable article about the study. Dickey is the author of a very good book: Securing the City. Wadsworth’s research…
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Not about police, but this article by Richard Herman does summarize my position on immigration very well.
Kudos to the NYPD and the bomb squad for doing their job well. That work is no joke. In her wonderful The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs wrote, “It does not take many incidents of violence to make people fear the streets. And as they fear them, they use them less,…
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Not the government wants you to know. Immediately after Calderon came to office in late 2006, he deployed up to 50,000 troops in a frontal battle with narcotics cartels, a move that drew widespread praise for its courage. More than three years later, the pace of killings is soaring and public security worries are beginning…
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This just in. Only one-fifth of those arrested are natives of the United States. Four-fifth are foreign-born immigrants. According to the New York Times: Emigration has thrown upon our shores many vicious characters, and a still larger number of needy and ignorant persons, who, under the influence of over ten thousand [drug dealers] become recruits…
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I thought I’d just let all you anti-American city-living immigrant-loving pro-crime socialist fascists communists know what Real Americans are thinking. This is an email being forwarded around conservative circles. (For some reason I can’t figure out, and you can’t see it here, conservative-leaning email tends to use a VERY large font and is often in…
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“If immigrants suddenly disappeared and the country became immigrant-free (and illegal-immigrant free), crime rates would likely increase.” From “How Immigration Crackdowns Backfire” by Steve Chapman in Reason.com“ That’s not to say Arizonans don’t have a right to be upset when Mexicans trespass across private land on a regular basis. But you could solve that problem…
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Nothing about this law is good. It is even worse that I first thought. When I wrote the previous post, I didn’t realize that individual police officers are being required to enforce that law. That certainly makes no friends in police circles. It is stupid to limit police discretion. Police are supposed to demand proof…
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I try and face most issues objectively. But not this one. I am pro-immigrant. My mom is an immigrant (from Germany) and my father’s parents were immigrants (Greeks from the Ottoman Empire on an Italian passport from what is now Albania). New York was founded on illegal immigrants (hell, America was founded on illegal immigrants).…
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