For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America's most politically charged questions: Does immigration drive crime?
      • hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip
        2·
        1 个月前

        Y’know I remember from my libertarian days that this was the exact platform in immigration. Borders and anti-immigration measures were antithetical to a small-government, free-market society.

        Ironic how so many self-labeled right-wing “libertarians” and “anarcho-capitalists” reversed their position when MAGA emerged.

      • Pennywise@piefed.socialBannedEnglish
        28·
        1 个月前

        So how far do you want to take that argument?

        Should we have our private property respected?

        Should a home invasion be illegal?

        How about personal boundaries(or borders)?

        Hmmm? 🤔

        If boundaries themselves are inherently illegitimate, what principle tells us which ones we should respect and which ones we shouldn’t?

      • Pennywise@piefed.socialBannedEnglish
        16·
        1 个月前

        How does it impact me personally? That’s not really relevant to whether entering the country illegally is, in fact, illegal. We don’t generally decide which laws matter based on whether I personally know the person committing the offense.

        • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 个月前

          So you’re one of those people who thinks all crimes are equal? If it’s illegal, it’s illegal, period, doesn’t matter if it’s moral or not?

          Okay, do you care that the president of the Untied States has committed hundreds of crimes and gotten away with them?