“The United States is being overrun by the Biden migrant crime. It’s a new form of vicious violation to our country,” said former President Donald Trump during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday.
Trump’s remarks come at a tense moment in the nation’s sentiment toward immigration. Americans now say that immigration is “the most important problem facing the U.S.,” according to the results of a Gallup poll published this week. Earlier in February, 57 percent of Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center said that “the large number of migrants seeking to enter the country leads to more crime.” For many, those ideas became more salient last week, when Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan man who immigrated to the U.S. illegally, was charged with the murder of Georgia college student Laken Riley.
Riley’s murder, along with incidents such as migrants drinking alcohol and consuming drugs in public and getting into fights in New York City, have spurred increased coverage of a “migrant crime” wave. “Over the past month, Fox News […]
Generally speaking, migrants are more than likely the least group to commit crimes. Just think of what they had to go through to get to the US and actually be allowed in. Having worked mortgages in another state, I knew that many of the people applying for a mortgage were probably not legally here. But there was no way to find out in those years and the government said we had to accept the “green” card as legal at that time. The couples who applied usually worked about 60 hours each a week and their whole thought was to have a good education and a safe place for their children. They were the hardest working people I have ever met and the least likely to default on a mortgage. We need them because so many Americans won’t do the work they do—-not for the type of work, the hours worked, and the pay they are offered. Terri Quint