Do Immigrants make US safer?
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I found this artcle in Newsweek and had to share. I have found that a lot of people subscribe to that mith that immigrants come to destroy our way of life….
Urban Legends
New immigrants may be the best thing that ever happened to American cities, but don’t wait for the leading presidential candidates to tell you that.
Christopher Dickey
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 4:28 PM ET Nov 28, 2007
What do the safest big cities in the United States have in common? Rudy Giuliani knows, but he’s not likely to say so, at least not now. Why? Because the answer, in a word, is immigrants.
When Giuliani was the law-and-order mayor of New York City, Mr. Zero Tolerance was more than happy to tolerate immigrants, including those who entered or stayed in the United States illegally. As conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks pointed out recently, Giuliani “once went overboard and declared, ‘If you come here and [...]
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