I have heard a South Texas Congressman make a similar claim an interview that a higher percentage of illegal immigrants coming up from Mexico are criminals compared to the rest of the US population. Who is right?
I get the impression, the author did 5 minutes research on each one before writing this. Which underscores how easy it was to figure out the stuff in Missouri was based on a lie.
Well, the ones here illegally have already violated the law.
To me it does not seem unreasonable to believe a lot of criminals come up from Mexico to escape their law, given how porous our borders are. There was a big kerfuffle, documented well by Fauxsnew's Bill O'Reilly about an illegal, deported a number of times, who killed a young lady in San Francisco. The local sheriff had refused to hold the bad guy for INS.
Among the vast majority who come here to work, I doubt their criminality rates are either VERY different than ours ..... or exactly the same.