>>>All illegal immigrants are illegal; that is, they already broke the law of this country. And if do no think that many of illegal immigrants turn to drugs or gang activities, you have your head in the sand.
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>It is true that poverty has an association with crime, especially for people who come from the worst environment to a land of plenty. In some cases it's because their whole life knowledge consists of seizing what you can because soon men with guns will come and take everything. However, some groups seem less affected: e.g. families of escapees from Cambodian atrocities tend to be physicians and businesspeople by now, not career crims.
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>The big issue is that illegal immigrants already have millions of anchor citizen kids against whom you cannot discriminate, even if their parents are drug lords.

I can see now that you re-wrote your message. It is ok; your right. But the discussion here is not about anchor kids but rather about the fact that many illegals turn to crime. Liberals who live in the ivory towers know it well but for the political expediency like to publicly deny these facts. Because they are cowards.

And poverty does not have to be associated with crime. Not everybody who is poor is a criminal; in fact majority are not.

When I came to live in this country (30+ years ago)I lived in the inner-city of New Orleans. When I would go shopping I would often find myself the only white face in the store. And strange looks like "you got to be really poor to be here. :) " I didn't have a car so I would grab two grocery bags (I was single and lived by myself so that was enough) and carry these home through total slums of N.O. I saw tons of poor people as I would go back and force to do my shopping. But they were not criminals; just very poor.