Sharing via social media is great! Thank you so much!
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Some of these are silly and some of the pop culture ones aren’t even really a net positive (IMHO) but overall this made me feel hopeful and like fighting is helping
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I really enjoy reading Tangle, in case anyone is looking for a digest that tries to stay as nonpartisan. Not because I have an issue with partisan politics (bleedin blue at this pt), but because it’s interesting to have some cross perspectives featured. For example, someone wrote in with this question, and it felt really good to have some data I can use to discuss with my relatives (the ones that don’t make decisions based on identity and are open to exploration):
Has the crime rate gone down in the communities where ICE has removed the greatest number of immigrants? Stated another way, are we getting a benefit from the costs of deportation and the loss of tax money generated by immigrants?
Lindsey Knuth, Associate Editor made these points:
- Several studies have tackled the deportation/crime-rate question by following the rollout of a federal program called Secure Communities… findings support a similar, surprising conclusion: The policy had no meaningful impact on trends in the crime rate.
- the results complicate his administration’s core assumption — that mass deportation will inevitably lead to a decrease in crime.
- Here we have a program directly targeting criminals that didn’t (statistically) make communities safer, and instead led to decreased reports of crime, by worsening trust between immigrants and the police.
- As for whether the public-safety benefit of deportation outweighs its financial costs, the answer is probably not. As you noted, deportations aren’t free — in 2016, Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) estimated the government cost per removal to be $10,854.
- should Trump succeed in his promise to deport “millions and millions” of unauthorized migrants, and those estimates are running into the trillions.
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