Probably because most criminals are actually white?
Edit: Yep, crime statistic Illinois 2019: 69% whites.
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That’s cause immigrants are generally law abiding residents by nature. When I was in the US on a visa I was oftentimes the only one who did not drink and drive or smoke pot and drive at parties, every fucking American kid did not give a shit about the laws and would even carry a gun while doing stupid stuff like that (in AZ).
I was too fucking scared to even get a speeding ticket or get into trouble for some other minor digression just because a power hungry cop doesn’t like my people. So I always followed every rule to the fucking t.
It’s generally well established that immigrants are the most law abiding population in almost every country. The only people who dispute this are fucking racists who make up their own statistics.
also even if they are illegal, they are mostly going to be hiding from plain sight, so it would not be possible to find them all anyways. thats why they target blue areas, where alot of legal immigrants go.
That's because Trump lies about there being a crime epidemic to send in the military.
Take special notice on how the Trump administration never ever ever provides proof or evidence or data of any of these claims. Just "this blue city is a crime infested hellhole" and then they move straight to rubber stamping the jack boot thugs against the wishes of the local governments.
If these military deployments actually had a measurable effect on crime rates in cities, you know for a fact that Republican snakes would be blasting those stats on every airwave.
Can’t find any violent criminals besides themselves, of course.
But ICE can't find many violent criminals
Maybe they should look in the mirror.
They're too chicken shit to go after actual criminals, because they'll fight back...
Like, obviously not all immigrants are violent criminals, but it's also true that some immigrants are violent criminals. Just like literally every demographic.
If Trump's admin just cares about total numbers, they're going to keep going after the easiest targets, even if they're in the country legally.
It’s not about violent criminals. It’s about white supremacy. It’s about demographic change. This is ethnic cleansing.
It's about making the US accustomed to state violence on the streets. Because that allows going further. They do not give a shit about crime or ethnics. Only power and expanding it through suppression. Doing this to "illegals" first is just a way to not make enough people resist.
Just like actual Chicago crime figures are entirely irrelevant. Facts are not driving this nor are relevant to a huge portion of the population. The question is about being able to deploy the army where Trump wants and who can resist that. To figure out how strong his regime is. So far, the limit is far from reached.
Obviously...
Every innocent brown person they deatin, increases the percentage that are violent criminals and out of the streets.
They don't want to solve crime, they want to convince people crime is bad so that they support the total removal of everyone brown.
If they were serious about crime, they'd have gone into Watts and Compton in Los Angeles, or Washington Park/any of the sketchy south side neighborhoods in Chicago.
I was in Compton a couple years ago, and it was great. Didn't go into Watts or any of the PJs though.
I used to make it a point in my younger days to walk around "rough" areas, Compton felt like a suburb compared to something like Chicago or NYC.
Most of those "high crime areas" are because of drug dealing and gangs trying to control turf and the violence that comes with that When that stuff is going on, fucking with a random just isn't worth the police attention it might bring.
In my experience the most dangerous areas are almost always 10-15 minutes away from a "rough" area. It's far enough away from the action that random crime won't negatively effect the drug trade. But close enough drug users are looking for stuff to steal to feed their addiction.
When I was skateboarding in highschool, we used to go into the city and intentionally pick skate spots within eyeshot of a manned corner. It meant cops weren't likely to come thru the area, and no locals would start anything like a mugging/jacking because that might bring cops into the area and get the dealers pissed at them for interrupting business.
On the other hand, if we ever saw cops we were out of any area immediately. Even if we weren't doing anything wrong, there's just no telling when a cop would decide to fuck with someone, even planting drugs or making up random bullshit
I definitely depends on where in Compton for sure. I worked in an industrial area off Del Amp years ago and it was fine, but I remember getting lost after partying at USC one night and it was pretty sketchy.
My point was that if ICE were serious, they'd be venturing into these high crime areas, not terrorizing families. But then they'd be met with armed resistance.
If they were serious they'd be working to gain rhe trust of locals who would tell them where the trouble is if not who makes it
Yup. That's the reason they're targeting blue cities. If they tried raiding brown citizens in, say, Texas, they'd get shot.
If they can't find violent criminals in Chicago, then they are looking in the wrong areas. The vast majority of Chicago is completely safe and pretty awesome. But let's not pretend there aren't violent parts of the city, it's just that those dangerous areas don't correlate to areas with high rates of undocumented immigrants.
It's almost if the criminals are the ones that are legal citizens and the people who are here illegally for the most part try really fucking hard not to mess that shit up?
Go figure...
guess where all the undocument ones are, in red states, rural areas, and things like meat plants.
Trump lies every time his mouth is open or his thumbs are moving while he posts from the shitter