We're about to find out.
From the American Mirror: "Trump Orders Weekly Publication of Crimes Committed by Illegals in Sanctuary Cities."
To be clear, my father's parents were immigrants from Germany. They followed the rules to get here, and they followed them afterwards. They sought no help from the government and got none.
Our country has relatively low crime right now, thanks in very large measure to the bi-partisan, get-tough policies of the Bush and Clinton years. But to say that we have relatively low crime is hardly to say that we can afford more. In particular, with violent crime on a shocking upswing, as it has been for at least the last two years, we don't need more crime from individuals who have no right to be in the country to start with.
Academia should be eager for data about how much crime we're getting from such people. Somehow, though, I suspect that what we'll see from academia is less curiosity than bile.
For the record, I am one academic very much looking forward to seeing this data, and I am also hoping that Prez Trump and AG Sessions are committed and eager to publish crime and punishment data of all sorts (e.g., I am hoping to have much better data on marijuana offenses involving both illegal and legals).
I especially hope we will get voter fraud data ASAP so we can know more about where millions of illegal votes may have been cast. According to Ohio's Secretary of State, there were not many illegal votes in Ohio, but Prez has me wondering if that may be a lie.
Where were you, Doug, when the DOJ was falling down on the job of ensuring the integrity of the vote. As you know, there was an IG report in 2013 on the DOJ's voting rights section that identified non-even handed enforcement of the VRA.
Trump's statements are irresponsible, but they are misdemeanors compared to the problems outlined in that report.
There is nothing in the IG report that suggests anything of the scale or significance of millions of illegal votes, federalist.
Indeed, here is the report's main conclusion (on p. 251): "we found insufficient support for a conclusion that Division leadership in either the prior or current administration improperly refused to enforce the voting rights laws on behalf of any particular group of voters, or that either administration used the enforcement of the voting laws to seek improper partisan advantage."