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Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts) Wed Jan 9, 2019, 07:40 PM Jan 2019

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El Paso has consistently been one of the safest cities in America.

https://www.elpasotexas.gov/~/media/files/coep/temporary/el%20paso%20one%20of%20safest%20metro%20cities%20in%20america.ashx

El Paso shares a border and commerce with Juarez, Mexico. Nothing has changed in El Paso, there is no crisis.

Facts are pesky little things to the diabolical, aren't they?

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El Paso has consistently been one of the safest cities in America. (Original Post) Claritie Pixie Jan 2019 OP

High correlation: percent illegals and low crime rate Cicada Jan 2019 #1

Thanks for that! Claritie Pixie Jan 2019 #2

Not to mention one of the most beautiful. akraven Jan 2019 #3

so ICE dumps hundreds of migrants there Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #4

That stunt - at Christmas no less! - was an attempt to create an ugly situation Trump could exploit. Claritie Pixie Jan 2019 #5

Cicada

(4,533 posts)

1. High correlation: percent illegals and low crime rate

Reply to Claritie Pixie (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 07:42 PM

Jan 2019

See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/19/two-charts-demolish-the-notion-that-immigrants-here-illegally-commit-more-crime/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3d144ed8eb6e

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)

2. Thanks for that!

Reply to Cicada (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 07:44 PM

Jan 2019

akraven

(1,975 posts)

3. Not to mention one of the most beautiful.

Reply to Claritie Pixie (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 07:46 PM

Jan 2019

Add in the food...………

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,321 posts)

4. so ICE dumps hundreds of migrants there

Reply to Claritie Pixie (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 08:03 PM

Jan 2019

Racist Donald and his ICE stormtroopers assume they can make El Paso hateful by dumping migrants there. Ain't working -- people of El Paso are taking care of them.

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/27/headlines/texas_hundreds_more_migrants_released_by_ice_at_el_paso_bus_station

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/4/meet_the_activists_lawmakers_fighting_to
[ interviews Juan Ortiz and Rep. Judy Chu]

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)

5. That stunt - at Christmas no less! - was an attempt to create an ugly situation Trump could exploit.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 08:10 PM

Jan 2019

The people at the helm are dispicable people. So glad their attempt failed!

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