1. La Evidencia Estadística: Menos Crimen, No Más.
La afirmación central en la mayoría de los textos es que, según múltiples estudios y datos, los inmigrantes, tanto documentados como indocumentados, cometen delitos a tasas significativamente más bajas que la población nativa de EE. UU. Esta idea se presenta como un hecho estadístico para contrarrestar la narrativa de que la inmigración aumenta el peligro.
- Repeating for people in the back: "both legal and undocumented immigrants commit crimes at very significantly lower rates than native-born people.".
- Every year about 0.4% of undocumented immigrants commit a crime compared to around 1% of native born u.s. Population.
- Fun fact: by 2024 undocumented immigrants were 3.5% of us, but committed only 1.5% of violent crime. If we were to make them all suddenly vanish, our crime rate would instantly increase.
- All studies show that undocumented immigrants are 4 times less likely to commit any crime than us born citizens and all immigrants in general are 60% less likely to be incarcerated for a serious crime.
- A 2020 study using texas data found that undocumented immigrants were arrested at less than half the rate of u.s.-born citizens for violent and drug offenses, and at one-quarter the rate for property crimes.
2. Retórica Política y Xenofobia: La Construcción del Miedo.
Se argumenta que la asociación entre inmigración y criminalidad es una táctica política deliberada, calificada como "fear-mongering" (infundir miedo) y propaganda xenófoba. Se sostiene que esta narrativa ignora los datos reales para justificar políticas crueles y apelar a prejuicios raciales, en lugar de basarse en preocupaciones legítimas de seguridad pública.
- Fact: immigrants—documented and undocumented—commit fewer crimes than u.s.-born citizens. Fear-mongering facts.
- Your reminder that research consistently shows that immigrants commit fewer crimes than u.s.-born citizens. What's happening isn't about crime. It's about hate and cruelty.
- This is the entire immigrant thugs rhetoric writ large. It doesn’t matter that immigrants both legal and not commit crime at a fraction of the rate natural citizens do.
- It was never about crime. ... It has always been about the fragility of white supremacy.
- Research showing immigrants commit fewer crimes shows that what ice is doing isn't about safety or threats. Trump having hired undocumented immigrants and being married to a former undocumented immigrant shows it also isn't about the law or immigration. The racist stereotypes show it's about hate.
3. Consecuencias de la Criminalización: Deportaciones y Falta de Debido Proceso.
Los textos denuncian que las políticas migratorias actuales no se centran en criminales peligrosos, sino que resultan en la detención y deportación de personas sin antecedentes penales significativos. Se critica la falta de debido proceso y se afirma que un alto porcentaje de los inmigrantes detenidos no tienen historial delictivo, convirtiéndose en el grupo más grande en los centros de detención de ICE.
- Deportations have always been indiscriminate. There has never been due process for them.
- Thanks for identifying yourself as someone to block 70% or more of the people being detained have no criminal record immigrants are less likely to commit crime than native born americans.
- This is our usa immigrants with no criminal record the largest group in ice detention.
- It’s never been about deporting criminals.
- "immigrants with no criminal record are now the largest group in us immigration detention.".
4. La Lógica del Inmigrante: Más que Perder, Más que Respetar.
Varios comentarios exponen una razón lógica por la cual los inmigrantes tienden a ser más respetuosos de la ley: el riesgo de deportación. Se argumenta que, al tener mucho más que perder si cometen un delito, los inmigrantes tienen un incentivo poderoso para evitar cualquier tipo de problema legal, lo que los convierte en uno de los grupos demográficos más respetuosos de la ley.
- Cuz when you're an immigrant, committing a crime has always been grounds for deportation. No 1 wants that.
- Most are not by immigrants, who, duh, don't want to give a reason to be deported.
- Immigrants are the most law abiding demographic within our borders. They embody more of the american spirit than most native born's i've met. They don't commit crime because they know it will get them deported.
- Louder for the cheap seats: immigrants commit •fewer• crimes than general population because they have too much to lose if caught. Use your fucking head!
- And stop blaming migrants. They’re not the ones flooding your town with fentanyl. In fact, immigrants — even undocumented ones — commit less crime than u.s.-born citizens. Why? because they’re not stupid. They’re fleeing danger, not looking to get caught and sent back to it.
5. El Lenguaje de la Deshumanización: 'Ilegal' vs. 'Indocumentado'.
Se hace un llamado a diferenciar entre la terminología utilizada para describir a los inmigrantes. Se señala que el término "ilegal" es una herramienta política para criminalizar y deshumanizar, mientras que "indocumentado" es más preciso. Se aclara que estar en el país sin autorización es, en la mayoría de los casos, una infracción civil y no un delito penal, una distinción clave que se pierde en el debate público.
- Being in this country undocumented is a civil offense and it is not a criminal offense. Therefore claiming that all undocumented immigrants are "criminals" is misleading statement whether intentional or not.
- Every time i hear the phrase "illegal immigrants" i yell at the video. They are undocumented immigrants. By calling them "illegal" the gop is gaslighting us because it implies that they are all criminals, which they are not.
- Please. Stop calling them "illegal immigrants" they are merely "undocumented immigrants" and that is not a crime or a criminal offense.
- Far too many usians do no know that immigration issues are *civil* matters, not criminal; undocumented immigrants have committed *misdemeanors*.
- The term "undocumented" is often preferred because being in the u.s. Without authorization is a civil offense, not a criminal act.