PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
Hello Yoda,
I continued reading the opinion piece you linked.
The writer tries to tell us what we should think:
"As Americans, we should only care about three things: (1) are the immigrants in the U.S. illegally; (2) have they committed violent crimes predominantly against U.S. citizens; and (3) had these criminals not been in our country illegally, these crimes, the victimization of our citizens and the costs of their crimes borne by American taxpayers could have been completely avoided."
Pardon me but I will make up my own mind what to think. And I like to base that on facts rather than opinion. The writer appears to be on a mission to get us to be very afraid that there is some big problem with violent crime. But the writer has a problem with that. The writer doesn't mention it, but I already know that violent crime has been in decline in recent years.
"Research conducted by the federal government oversight organization Judicial Watch in 2014 documents that..."
Wait a moment. What is this organization called "Judicial Watch?" I stopped to look that up in Wikipedia:
"Judicial Watch (JW) is an American conservative activist group[1] and self-styled watchdog group[2][3] that files Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits to investigate claimed misconduct by government officials.
Founded in 1994, JW has primarily targeted Democrats, in particular the Clinton administration, the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton, although it has sued Republicans as well including the administration of George W. Bush. It has also filed lawsuits against government climate scientists; Judicial Watch has described climate science as "fraud science". The group has made numerous false and unsubstantiated claims, which have been picked up by right-wing news outlets. The vast majority of its lawsuits have been dismissed.[1]"
OK, got it. Now I understand where this is coming from.
"Research conducted by the federal government oversight organization Judicial Watch in 2014 documents that 50 percent of all federal crimes were committed near our border with Mexico. "
Wait a minute. I thought the writer was talking about violent crimes? Now he is referring to statistics on all crimes. That's misleading.... Violent crimes and all crimes are two different things.
"According to the FBI, 67,642 murders were committed in the U.S. from 2005 through 2008, and 115,717 from 2003 through 2009. The General Accounting Office documents that criminal immigrants committed 25,064 of these murders. "
Why do we only get information from these years? That's strange. I thought the writer was going to fill us in on 'the facts.' It seems to be the facts would include data from all years, not a specifically cherry-picked narrow range. The way we only get facts from a few years makes me wonder if we are really getting the whole story or simply whatever made the opinion piece writer's case appear more convincing.
The opinion piece concludes:
"So the next time you hear some Open Borders politician or pro illegal immigrant surrogates advocate on their behalf, ask yourself why we as American citizens need to bear the increasing costs of violence, victimization and burdensome taxes in subsidizing illegal immigrant criminals who shouldn’t be in our country in the first place."
But wait a minute. Nowhere in the opinion piece is it shown that these costs are on the increase!
And, pardon me, but just who are these 'Open Borders politicians' in the first place. I am not aware of ANY politician advocating for open borders. That just sounds like more made-up 'alternate facts' baloney he is putting into the mouths of some 'straw men' imaginary individuals from 'the left.' Nobody has been advocating for open borders. This guy is strongly in opposition to people with opinions which simply don't exist. Imaginary boogie men from 'the left.' Perhaps he should spend more time listening to what different people on the left are actually saying instead of making it up and stuffing it in their mouths.
I continued reading the opinion piece you linked.
The writer tries to tell us what we should think:
"As Americans, we should only care about three things: (1) are the immigrants in the U.S. illegally; (2) have they committed violent crimes predominantly against U.S. citizens; and (3) had these criminals not been in our country illegally, these crimes, the victimization of our citizens and the costs of their crimes borne by American taxpayers could have been completely avoided."
Pardon me but I will make up my own mind what to think. And I like to base that on facts rather than opinion. The writer appears to be on a mission to get us to be very afraid that there is some big problem with violent crime. But the writer has a problem with that. The writer doesn't mention it, but I already know that violent crime has been in decline in recent years.
"Research conducted by the federal government oversight organization Judicial Watch in 2014 documents that..."
Wait a moment. What is this organization called "Judicial Watch?" I stopped to look that up in Wikipedia:
"Judicial Watch (JW) is an American conservative activist group[1] and self-styled watchdog group[2][3] that files Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits to investigate claimed misconduct by government officials.
Founded in 1994, JW has primarily targeted Democrats, in particular the Clinton administration, the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton, although it has sued Republicans as well including the administration of George W. Bush. It has also filed lawsuits against government climate scientists; Judicial Watch has described climate science as "fraud science". The group has made numerous false and unsubstantiated claims, which have been picked up by right-wing news outlets. The vast majority of its lawsuits have been dismissed.[1]"
OK, got it. Now I understand where this is coming from.
"Research conducted by the federal government oversight organization Judicial Watch in 2014 documents that 50 percent of all federal crimes were committed near our border with Mexico. "
Wait a minute. I thought the writer was talking about violent crimes? Now he is referring to statistics on all crimes. That's misleading.... Violent crimes and all crimes are two different things.
"According to the FBI, 67,642 murders were committed in the U.S. from 2005 through 2008, and 115,717 from 2003 through 2009. The General Accounting Office documents that criminal immigrants committed 25,064 of these murders. "
Why do we only get information from these years? That's strange. I thought the writer was going to fill us in on 'the facts.' It seems to be the facts would include data from all years, not a specifically cherry-picked narrow range. The way we only get facts from a few years makes me wonder if we are really getting the whole story or simply whatever made the opinion piece writer's case appear more convincing.
The opinion piece concludes:
"So the next time you hear some Open Borders politician or pro illegal immigrant surrogates advocate on their behalf, ask yourself why we as American citizens need to bear the increasing costs of violence, victimization and burdensome taxes in subsidizing illegal immigrant criminals who shouldn’t be in our country in the first place."
But wait a minute. Nowhere in the opinion piece is it shown that these costs are on the increase!
And, pardon me, but just who are these 'Open Borders politicians' in the first place. I am not aware of ANY politician advocating for open borders. That just sounds like more made-up 'alternate facts' baloney he is putting into the mouths of some 'straw men' imaginary individuals from 'the left.' Nobody has been advocating for open borders. This guy is strongly in opposition to people with opinions which simply don't exist. Imaginary boogie men from 'the left.' Perhaps he should spend more time listening to what different people on the left are actually saying instead of making it up and stuffing it in their mouths.
