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Jarqui

(10,122 posts)
6. Vox: Mollie Tibbetts's tragic death shouldn't confuse the truth about immigrant crime
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 06:45 PM
Aug 2018

Fox News is trying to make this into an immigration story. But immigrants are less likely to commit crimes in the US.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/8/22/17768194/mollie-tibbetts-illegal-immigration-crime

The Trump family would be an outlier because his grandfather ran a brothel and was kicked out of his native Germany for being a draft dodger. Maybe bone spurs run in the family

Black Americans still are victims of hate crimes more than any other group
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/08/21/22097/black-americans-still-are-victims-hate-crimes-more-any-other-group

The President says nothing about that. Wouldn't go over well with his white supremacist supporters.

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