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British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue

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205 points n1b0m | 1 comments | 10 Mar 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.283s | source
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jmyeet ◴[10 Mar 25 22:10 UTC] No.43326687[source]▶
Here's an example of how broken the discourse is over immigration and how the media has grossly failed with their responsibility in reporting something remotely factual.

The majority of undocumented migrants aren't border crosses. They're visa overstayers [1].

And of course the "migrant crime" hysteria is completely made up. Despite there being at least 10 million undocumented migrants, the number of murders commited by both documented and undocumented migrants in 2024 was 29 [2]. Not 29,000. TWENTY NINE. That's a per-capita crime rate significantly lower than the American population.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/686056668/for-seventh-consecu...

[2]: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistic...

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1. cavisne ◴[10 Mar 25 23:19 UTC] No.43327307[source]▶
[2] Is an incorrect interpretation. There is no nationwide data on murders by illegal immigrants, only some states like Texas collect this. CPB does not deport many murderers because they are serving prison sentences in the US. In 2022 there were 67 Texas murders by illegal immigrants, more than the supposed CPB FY22 number just in one state.

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2024-06/Policy-Ana...

The per capita trend is still directionally the same as your claim in Texas.

The problem with illegal immigrant murders is there is a legal and proportional way to prevent all of them - don't let them in the first place. This isn't so easy for other murderers.