Truth vs. perception of crime rates for immigrants
JESSICA VAUGHAN:
No, of course, not.
I mean, obviously, it's not true that immigrants don't commit crimes. Of course they do. And, again, the issue is how do we handle that fraction of the immigrant population that has been committing crimes and has been contributing to crime rates in our communities?
The logical answer is, they should be removed. Crime is not a job Americans won't do. There is no reason to allow people who are here in defiance of our laws to stay here if they are contributing to crime in our communities, and, again, it does exist. It needs to be acknowledged, and law enforcement agencies need to be cooperating to make sure that they are finding those criminal aliens who are preying on people in the communities and deporting them as expeditiously as possible.
And the problem is, is that there are certain areas, like San Francisco, where political leaders have imposed policies on law enforcement officers to block immigration enforcement. And the people they end up protecting in those cases are actually the criminals, because they're allowed to stay in the community and continue preying on people there.
So, again, there is no — if we can't agree on removing illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, then who can we deport?
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