Seattle
Valued Senior Member
The discussion is generally about not suddenly adding 100,000 people. It's also a bit of semantics. If you are talking about 100,000 new babies from upper middle class households, when they grow up, crime won't increase.Right. But in both areas, illegal immigrants commit less crimes than US citizens. Sure, if you have to add 100,000 people to a city, and even one of them commits a crime, then absolute crime will go up, even if crimes per 100,000 goes way down.
But overall, if you are going to get another 100,000 people into your area, you are MUCH MUCH better off with immigrants (illegal or legal) than with US citizens. Lower crime, higher productivity, more innovation, and greater economic growth.
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If you are talking about second generations from working class immigrants from the inner cities, crime may go up even though they aren't immigrants statistically speaking at that point. It's just being a little disingenuous to trot out that line over and over when we know the reality on the ground.