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Originally Posted by lookout123
What information do you have to support this premise?
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FBI Uniform Crime Reports
Here is just one comparison for AZ:
2006: 30,916 violent crimes - rate of 501 per 100,000 residents
2007: 30,600 violent crimes - rate of 482 per 100,000 residents
2008: 29,050 violent crimes - rate of 447 per 100,000 residents.
Go back additional years for further comparisons....The full 2009 data is not out.
Yet we hear from many proponents of the law (including the governor of AZ, Sen McCain, etc) about a dangerous upswing in violent crime due to illegal immigrants and Mexican druggies.
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preliminary 2009 data by region.....violent crime down in every category in the West (and every region)
So where is this dangerous upswing in violent crime?
And to Classic.... you can ignore the budget data, the deportation data and the crime data...and you can distort what Holder and Napaltano said.
And you can make assumptions and suggestions that ALL of the constitutional experts, local elected officials and law enforcement officials who have expressed concern about the constitutionality and/or enforceability of the law are acting out of political or financial interests...it doesnt make it true.
As to the constitutionality, the courts will decide....and that is fine with me.