I have no problem with EMS personal being armed, just because you don't know where every call is going to take you, but...
You can Google this, but violent crime rate is almost down to the late 1950's levels.
Also regarding 3rd world violence, from CBS on the Fact check of the SOTU. (for the most part Trump was fairly accurate in most of his address)
The average immigrant may pose less of a threat than natives, but this is likely compensated for by the inordinate violence of the MS-13 gangmembers.
It appears that illegals murder @2,000 people in America annually, which is maybe about 5% of murder victims. That's still a substantial number.
The direct violence caused by illegals is hardly the only issue.
Our border facilities are overburdened and another ...."caravan" is due shortly. How overburdened do we have to get before the democrats, who were stupidly mocking and rolling their eyes, when President Trump brought up the caravans in his SOTU speech last night, begin to accept that it
is a very real problem.There's also the drug problem, fentynal, carfentynal, heroin, and other dangerous chemicals are smuggled in, usually through existing ports of entry from what I gather, but some are humped across by illegals, part of the price they pay coyotes and cartels for passage..
There's no excuse for opposing a wall.
BOTH SIDES seem to agree we need to up rate security at the entry points to stop drug smuggling, and all should agree that more personnel, more sensors, more drones can all be part of a solution.
But a so-called "smart wall" , composed of
nothing BUT sensors, is illusory and useless by itself.