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There are infinite ways that liberals in the news media try to convince people that what they see with their own eyes isn't what's actually happening, never more so than when it pertains to illegal immigration.

A new report at Axios purports to show that there's not much crime at all coming across the Southern border. What's that silly president been talking about these last five years?

The evidence to back up that absurd claim: "U.S. communities along the Mexico border are among the safest in America," the report said, "with some border cities holding crime rates well below the national average, FBI statistics show."

The report said that the information "contradicts the narrative by President Trump and others that the U.S.-Mexico border is a 'lawless' region suffering from violence and mayhem."

This is like when the leaders of Iran claim that they have no gay citizens. Well, no, they have plenty of gay citizens, just like everywhere, but the fact that it's illegal to be gay there might have something to do with the lack of drag shows.

Similarly, as Axios acknowledges in its own report, the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents has grown nearly three-fold between 1998 and 2018, the latest year of available data from the Customs and Border Protection. What a coincidence! More law enforcement, less crime!

But more importantly, while it's true that border cities have higher Latino populations by nature, it's not the case that illegal immigrants cross the Rio Grande, hit soil, and then find the nearest hotel. No, they continue moving and spread throughout the rest of the country. What sense would it make to know you're illegally entering the country, along with thousands of others on a daily basis, only to halt just on the other side? That's not what they do. They go to Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and other cities along the East and West Coasts.

That's why there are Latin-born gangs in public schools in Maryland.

Cities on the border aren't even what we should be looking at. We should be looking at the border itself. I went there twice in 2019 to tour the physical border and to visit the migrant detention and processing centers, and, of course, it's lawless. There technically are "laws" that govern the physical space, but they were never intended to cope with Mexican and Central American human traffickers pushing floats of migrants by the dozen across the Rio Grande onto U.S. soil, where they then seek asylum protection. They were never intended to cope with drug mules crossing the river in jeeps with hundreds of pounds of drugs, dodging authorities who are otherwise tied babysitting unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors.

Convicted rapists, child molesters, drug dealers, and human traffickers are apprehended at the border all the time, which isn't to say that all of them are caught. They're not, which is why they have prior convictions in states all across the country. (Quick, someone tell Axios.)

Illegal immigration and the crime that comes with it is devastating to the country, even if the media still pretend that it's not.

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Low crime rates in border cities say nothing about the chaos caused by illegal immigration - Washington Examiner