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The Mexican example isn't racism. If you turn it around and look at US citizens that are fleeing the US to Mexico, it wouldn't surprise me if they also were more likely to be criminals. If you're running from the police - on either side - you'd want to hop the border, and not because either Mexicans or US citizens are genetically prone to being rapists.

Stefan Molyneux had a great video on this subject, with some actual facts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN_FOCF3vIQ



Washington Post tried to analyze the data and reached a conclusion that Trump was wrong - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/...

American thinker did a meta-analysis and found WaPo to be misleading - http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/illegal_alie...

Personally, I am ambivalent precisely due to the difficulty of tracking these statistics. The raw numbers used are public and quoted in both pieces.

Off-topic, that Molyneux video is HD which is incredibly pleasing on the eyes. Thank you for that. :)


Living in a foreign country is pretty tough. It's also pretty tough to try to do so illegally. It's not the sort of thing one undertakes lightly. As a criminal, moving to a country where you don't speak the language, where you face discrimination, where you have no social network, and an extremely well funded police force, would be a stupid move.

I was an illegal immigrant at one point. I couldn't make it work. Restricting people who want to come to a country to improve their lives is indefensible. If the word for that isn't "racism" it must be "stupidity".


> Restricting people who want to come to a country to improve their lives is indefensible

Pretty much all the countries in the world do that. Mexico is extremely lucky to have a physical border with the US that you can walk/climb over. How could a Burmese or Nigerian citizen emigrate to US (or any other Western country) illegaly?




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