Except, statistically, illegal aliens are more law abiding than Americans.  If you really want to reduce "criminality", wouldn't you start with the bigger law-breakers, US citizens?
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The point is, your concern isn't criminality.  It's xenophobia.  The same fears aren't raised about Canadians or Swedes, only about brown-skinned people.  It's a cloak for racism.
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You try to invoke some kind of un-trumpable false moral absolutism by name-tagging them as "ILLEGAL" (your own ridiculous capitalisation).  It is a better-than-even chance that you have done something "ILLEGAL" in the last day, particularly if you ever drive a car, and certainly within the last 365 days.  Should you be labelled an "ILLEGAL", and be deported?
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Let's cut the childish name-calling and the immature false moral absolutism.
Let's make public policy based on the reasoning of mature adults.
True criminality requires moral culpability.
There is no moral culpability in the desperation that drives illegal immigration.

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