What is this data? For legal immigration or illegal immigration?
For everyone arrested in the recent ICE crackdown.
So illegal immigration?
What flavor is it?
The kool-aid, I mean.
I like purple
Ostensibly, at least.
Quotas
Not surprising. If you arrest people solely based on skin color and prejudices instead of criminal records…
Of course.
None of this is or ever has been about crime, or even really about immigrants, undocumented or otherwise.
It is and always has been about establishing precedents by which to expand governmental authority.
What they’re building is a system in which anonymous federal agents will be seen to have the right to black-bag anyone, regardless of whether they can be charged with a crime or not, and disappear them.
They started with undocumented immigrants justifiably accused of other crimes because that was the easiest case to be made both legally and popularly, but they never had any intention of stopping there. They’re going to keep expanding until they reach the point that they can do it to anyone, any time, for any reason.
They’re coming for YOU end ME.
Anyone that doesn’t fall in line will be 86’ed
Another 30% have a “pending criminal charge” which can be anything from a moving violation to vagrancy.
Cops are so fucking good at finding an excuse to press charges. That they aren’t bothering anymore illustrates how perfunctory these arrests have become.
With violent conviction: 7%
That’s a lot higher than the general population, isn’t it? Google says it’s 2-4% estimated (there’s apparently no explicit data collected on specifically violent convictions—there is for “felony” convictions, but there are a ton of non-violent felonies, so that’s pretty useless for this kind of comparison).
I also can’t help but notice that the article, especially the headline, is very careful to say “most” only about certain “city crackdowns”. According to the same chart in the article, among all ICE arrests across the US from Jan 20th to Oct 15th, only 33% had “No criminal charges”, which means 67% of them did have criminal charges. Pretty stark contrast to what the headline would like to imply, isn’t it?
Overall, pretty blatant cherry-picking. I hate that it’s so difficult to find media that will just present the facts without any spin.
What point are you trying to make about it being higher than the general population? That they are doing ever so slightly better than arresting people at random?
