Kevin Graham wrote:Why do people focus on rare instances like these and make them a political issue? Because driving their political points is more important to them. Sean Hannity talked about this more tonight than he did the fact that the President is a criminal himself. As horrific as this is, the fact still remains that this would have to happen literally 10 times per day before matching the murders committed by non-immigrants.
I know the case of Mollie is really sad, but I do not understand why she gets so much coverage. In the USA there are 27 - 30 homicides per day. What makes Mollie's case so special?
She's a young, photogenic white girl who went missing and there's a whole genre of tabloid press that focuses intensely on that. They do that because it sells. Not every instance of this happening snowballs into a national story, but we're pretty much always either in the midst of one or in the cusp of starting another.
DoubtingThomas wrote:I know the case of Mollie is really sad, but I do not understand why she gets so much coverage. In the USA there are 27 - 30 homicides per day. What makes Mollie's case so special?
DoubtingThomas wrote:We need undocumented immigrants in our country. We need them to work for us or below us. It just makes economic sense in our capitalist economy. Republicans are stupid for wanting to deport them. I have a feeling that many employers are all for illegal immigration.
Of course, illegal immigrants are huge factors in perpetuating wage suppression.
All I am saying is that we should welcome illegal immigrants to work for us. Undocumented immigrants give low wage individuals like you an opportunity to move up. With more immigrant workers we would need more supervisors and more managers.
DoubtingThomas wrote:I know the case of Mollie is really sad, but I do not understand why she gets so much coverage. In the USA there are 27 - 30 homicides per day. What makes Mollie's case so special?
ACLU wrote:The fact of the matter is that the vast number of undocumented immigrants do not commit criminal acts. In fact, studies show that they commit fewer criminal acts than U.S. citizens.
If nothing else, they seem to commit felonies at a lower rate than Trump associates.
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