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>>>>We are reliving the 1950s -- rampant paranoia. Reds under the beds, duck and cover, etc.
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>>>I'm not paranoid. I've already said I don't mind ilegals being here. It's the criminals that come with them that I dislike. Is that paranoia? Over 30% of California felons are ilegals.
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>>Not to put too fine a point on it, but doesn't that mean that over 60% of California felons are perfectly legal citizens?
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>Yes. I think you're math is correct.
>We have enough felons. We don't need anymore coming in from other countries.

But of course, percentages don't tell us anything about the actual numbers. If we did a great job of filtering out the criminal element among immigrants, the percentage of immigrants convincted of felonies would go down and the percentage of native born would go up. Would that prove anything?

Tamar