• BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This is all beside the point because the migrants in question aren’t illegal immigrants who have entered the country secretly - the authorities have permitted them to enter and already know who they are. (The authorities are in fact spending a great deal of money on them.)

    I don’t get it. Are you saying that’s bad?

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      I’m not saying anything about whether that’s bad. I’m just saying that the person I’m responding to is making an argument (illegal immigrants are less likely to commit other crimes since they want to avoid police attention which would get them deported) which is doubly inapplicable to the existence or lack thereof of a “migrant crime wave” in NYC.