Monday, October 1, 2007

So which is it?

The front cover (above the fold) of today's Arizona Republic had a headline describing our border with Mexico as "A Revolving Door of Criminals." Then, buried on page A8, was an article by the same reporter (Daniel Gonzalez) with the headline "Immigrants Are Unlikely Criminals" with the sub-heading "Study: Native-borns commit more crimes". The study, done by the University of California-Irvine, said that immigrants, whether in the country legally or illegally, are less likely to commit crimes than the native-born population. So if immigrants are less likely to commit crimes, yet our border is a "revolving door of criminals," then to whom was the Republic referring in saying that criminals are crossing our borders? Were they referring to the drunken underage U of A students returning from a night of partying in Nogales? You can see how people who only skim the headlines of the newspaper (which President Bush once proudly boasted of) might be confused as to what is going on in our world.

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