• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    06 months ago

    Being inmigrant does not make you neither good or bad.

    Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find

    Statistically speaking it makes you good.

    Being inmigrant just means that you moved from one country to another.

    But then there’s a package of behaviors and conditions that come with that transition. Migration carries a huge expense and personal risk, it puts you under a higher degree of state surveillance, and the immigration process screens out a large component of the overall population (traditionally, young under educated men, the primary participants in criminalized behaviors).

    Consequently, it means you’re more likely to be “good” than your native peers.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      I’m not a US citizen.

      Anyway I would not start doing that kind of reasoning. I know it’s with good intentions. But it gives space to those who want to say that some group of people are bad just because a collateral reason.

      What if statistics would say that inmigrants do more crime? What if someone make a logical reason justifying that moving for one place to another makes you a bad person?

      I prefer not entering into that arguments. Each person should be judged by it’s actions, and not by which racial, national or any other not related group they belong.

      Also, I refuse to be called “worse” just because I did not emigrated, just saying.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        06 months ago

        What if statistics would say that inmigrants do more crime?

        Then we’d likely see a reversed set of incentives - lower expenses, fewer personal risks, less surveillance, and a screening process that encourages a surplus youth male population.

        Each person should be judged by it’s actions

        That’s expensive and inefficient. Far cheaper to apply a regional/ethnic heuristic, even if it is less reliable per capita. Build a big beautiful wall to keep all the Bad Guys Out, because you know they’re statistically bad, rather than staffing the border with Personality Inspectors and Minority Report style future-crime prediction police.

        Also, I refuse to be called “worse” just because I did not emigrated, just saying.

        You’re statistically worse for staying in your shithole country, rather than coming to the Best Country On Earth.