Immigrants aren't criminals

Everyone thinks the borders should be secure.  Everyone wants immigrants to go through the full legalization process.  Yet, not everyone thinks that immigrants increase crime.  A new report shows that the perceived connection between immigrants and crime is overblown:

Another study released Monday by the Washington-based ImmigrationPolicy Center showed that immigrant men ages 18 to 39 had anincarceration rate five times lower than native-born citizens in everyethnic group examined. Among men of Mexican descent, for instance, 0.7%of those foreign-born were incarcerated compared to 5.9% ofnative-born, according to the study, co-written by UC Irvinesociologist Ruben G. Rumbaut.

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This study was based on U.S. census data.

President Bush and a bipartisan coalition in Congress are about to unveil a bill that would give lawful, tax-paying undocumented immigrant families a path to citizenship.

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[Tony]

People need to follow rules, just because you're a good person doesn't mean
you shouldn't follow the rules. 76% of the illegal immigrants that are arrested,
get arrested again. All immigrants should be required to go through the legalization
process.

Here are my thoughts on a solution; First anyone thinks that we should
deport  all illegal immigrants is delusional, deporting 15 million (I believe
the estimates are 12-20 million illegal immigrants are here) would be virtually
impossible. Illegal immigrants  that gets arrested for a serious crime,
gets deported. The single family houses that house 20 illegal day workers should
be raided and the individuals dealt with. Those that have been in the community
for some time, are upstanding citizens, have a family etc should be given the
paper work and given a time frame (a year?) to become legal.

The argument that "oh come on, there's some good immigrants here"
is piss poor. I don't think it has to do with whether someone id good or bad, it
has to do with the laws. We should have the knowledge of who is in our country.
Naturally there are plenty of "what ifs". "this and thats"
but without writing a book, this is what I have.