(11-19-2018, 09:44 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(11-19-2018, 09:27 PM)mikesez Wrote: You may want to read that Marshall project article you linked to again.  It says that, historically, 75% of these people show up for their court dates. The number has unfortunately been lower, lately, for cases that involve whole families, however these cases are small fraction of the total.

And if you could provide some Citation with evidence for your claim that in the eighties they just came for jobs, while now they are coming for some sort of hand out that didn't exist in the 80s, that'd be great.

75% is not a "vast majority."

As far as the '80s, I have no idea what percentage came for jobs, but that's the premise Reagan and Bush were describing. Today over 50% of illegals receive welfare (I posted the links earlier).

So you pointed to a study, from an institute who mission is to make you want stricter immigration laws, about the current % on welfare, but you never did get around to agreeing with anyone about what is welfare and what is not, and you have zero data from earlier times to compare it to, but your message remains that this data is Very Important and Should Change My Mind.  Ok.

And you hand wave away your lack of data to compare by saying that I should trust Bush and Reagan when they said 38 years ago that most of them were coming for work.
But you say I should not trust Jeb Bush from 2 years ago when he said the exact same thing.

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