When people say they care about “closing the border” to illegal immigrants for the fear of “crimes”, it’s really just an excuse.
1. The obvious racism of certain people “looks dangerous”
2. The more unspoken racism of seeing other people do “better” than them
Is this dog whistle?
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find
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