The second box breaks down the types of crimes committed by these predators.

Yeah - and the overwhelming majority of them committed the crime of....illegal entry. Like, 65% of the crimes are just illegal entry. Not really a "predator" crime - and one that by definition cannot be repeated once the person is here in the U.S. And the next two largest categories of crimes are DUI and drug possession - which are of course more serious, but not the sorts of criminal offenses we normally apply the label of "predator" to.

So I don't think this really supports the point you're trying to make. If illegal immigrants (as a group) are no more likely to be "predators" than U.S. citizens (as a group), then you're not making people any safer by going after them as a group than you would by just expelling the same number of random U.S. citizens. Take a million U.S. citizens at random and throw them out of the country and you'll have fewer crimes in an absolute sense, because some proportion of any number of people will commit some crime - but the rate of crime won't really change.

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