This is just an opinion piece written by a Fox News contributor and it is not supported by the facts. Trump supporters love this kind of stuff because they think it validates their racism, but it isn’t accurate.
Labeling citizens' concerns about "safety" and "economics" as "racism" is ploy by the Left to win their agenda by any means, even dirty tricks, to avoid a discussion and an argument over any issue, including "immigration".
This is how it works in reality: most citizens, in their daily lives, are usually concerned about economics, safety, and laws.
When any group of people, with definable characteristics, has a noticeable percentage in their group that threatens Economics, Safety and Laws, that group of people will fall under scrutiny as a "group".
For most people it is not like "we don't like group A, so lets find fault with them". It is usually "We see a problem in the area of Economics, Safety, Law, and noticeable amount from Group A (or B, or C, or D, etc) are contributing or causing it."
When in 1990's the "new wave or Russians" came to USA from the remains of USSR, there was a crime wave, specifically attributed to the young Russians, men and women, who noticeably contributed to prostitution, organized gang crime and extortion of protection money, administrative and bank fraud, "gold digger's marriages", visa fraud, petty theft, etc.
AS A RESULT special police investigations units were created, called "Russian Crime Prevention/Investigation Units" in all areas where majority of Russians lived.Towards the end of 1990's into early 2000's the Visitors/Tourist/Student/Worker Visas for Russians became much harder to gain.
We, the lawful Russians, had NO PROBLEMS with it, and were glad to see our interests protected, as we too were often subjects of these crimes, and/or victims of Bad Reputation about Russians which started with the influx of "these other Russians".
In the recent years there was a crack-down on "Chinese Anchor Baby Business" aka "Birther Tourism". This is not a slur or an invention. These are official terms used by California Police, ICE and Immigration Services. And well documented in the mass media. Maternity wards in regular hospitals are raided, people who organized are fined, and those who came to USA under false pretense are deported.
https://www.newsweek.com/feds-raid-maternity-hotels-birth-tourists-777643
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-birth-tourism-persists-20161220-story.html
It is not about "illegal immigrants and crime" because they are Mexican. It is about people not wanting "illegal immigrants and crime", and THIS TIME, it happened to be "Mexicans".... while few years back it was "Russians" and "Chinese" as recent examples.....
It is a shame that the Left are negating the rights of lawful citizens to protect themselves and request that the LAWS are followed in regards to immigration.
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