Wow, you are very good at twisting words and pulling the racist card. There was no racist assumption here. He simply referred to a left-out statistic that exists, whether logged somewhere or not, that a portion of those "native born criminals" were likely native born of illegal immigrant parents which puts into question which pool of criminals they should fairly be put into to reach the overall statistic.https://thehill.com/latino/324607-r...rants-commit-less-crime-than-us-born-citizens
I don't know if the Cato study really looks only at Texas or not, but considering much of the border and illegal crossings happen in Texas, and that is where Trump went to talk up his "crisis", that would seem to be a pretty important place to look.
As to assumptions that "native born criminals" are "anchor babies of illegals" is just plain racist and hateful. But honestly that pretty much sums up @Noahfeck posts in general- fear and hate. Rather sad.
And to those pointing out that 'all illegals break the law', be careful of throwing rocks while living in glass houses. I doubt there are many, if any, of us on this sight who don't occasionally speed, have rigs with a few violations (mudflaps, tire coverage etc come up often). Pretty safe to say we all break the law at some point.
Pointing out that all illegals break the law is a 100% fact. They are here illegally, thus have broken a law. To compare that to a mudflap violation is ridiculous. If you want to compare something similar, you should probably use something like breaking and entering, or at least trespassing and using somebody's property without their permission. Yes, we all break some law in some way at some point, but you are really grasping at straws to compare us to illegals crossing the border.
@Houndoc Is it really that hard to understand that a wall will deter a large portion of illegal immigration which does contribute to a large amount of crime in this country? I totally understand the $$$ argument, but let's take that out of the equation, hypothetically, and do you honestly feel like a wall is useless? I have a hard time grasping the argument that a wall is useless and it won't help anything at all. The money part, sure. The fact that immigrants do play a positive role in our economy and cultural diversity so we need them, yes. But those who cross their arms and claim that it won't help, I tend to think they just hate Trump (which I also do understand why some people have a problem with him) and are just complaining about it because he wants it.
I am VERY interested to see how things play out after another 5 days go by after reading those articles that @Herzog linked. I can see funding for the wall not being an issue anymore if some fat is trimmed from the government employee pool.