Lott: As Deportations Rise, U.S. on Track for Lowest Murder Rate on Record

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Ok, it's John Lott, so he's got an orientation. I generally find his stuff reasonable...but I also tend to find his conclusions congenial...so make of it what you will.

   My own argument here is this: look at world homicide rates by country:

Even if you just took a (large and) representative sample of the population from Latin America and moved it to the U.S., then, under certain reasonable assumptions (e.g. that the higher homicide rates in LA are not entirely the result of poor policing), our homicide and murder rates would go up.

   Of course we also have very good reason to believe that progressive tend to suppress information that indicates that illegal immigration raises crime rates. Trivially: we know that the left routinely conflates legal and illegal immigration in order to muddy the waters of this and similar issues.

   This is a pretty routine application of political correctness--progressives like illegal immigration, and are willing to (at least partially) subordinate the facts and evidence to that political preference.

   Not to suggest that PC itself is routine--it's an extremely radical and irrationalist position. But this is a routine application of that view.