...who is an avid viewer of Fox News recently told me that illegal immigrants were responsible for the shocking increase in crime in places like Arizona. In an article in Time, "The 'Dangerous' Border: Actually One of America's Safest Places," Tim Padgett writes (my emphasis):[Arizona's] overall crime rate dropped 12% last year; between 2004 and 2008 it plunged 23%. In the metro area of its largest city, Phoenix, violent crime — encompassing murder, rape, assault and robbery — fell by a third during the past decade and by 17% last year. The border city of Nogales, an area rife with illegal immigration and drug trafficking, hasn't logged a single murder in the past two years.
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"There's a real disconnect between emotions and facts when it comes to the border," says El Paso city councilman Beto O'Rourke. "You've got a lot of politicians exploiting this fear that the Mexicans are coming over to kill us."
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