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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 732391" data-attributes="member: 9859">Cato: &quot;t is a smear to blame&quot; immigrants for Arizona crimeCato&#039;s Griswold: &quot;t is a smear to blame low-skilled immigrant workers from Latin America for creating a crime problem in Arizona.&quot; In an April 27 post, Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato Institute&#039;s Center for Trade Policy Studies, wrote that &quot;Arizona&#039;s harsh new law against illegal immigration is being justified in part as a measure to combat crime&quot; and that &quot;drug-related violence along the border is a real problem.&quot; But, Griswold continued, &quot;it is a smear to blame low-skilled immigrant workers from Latin America for creating a crime problem in Arizona.&quot; From Griswold&#039;s post: Arizona&#039;s harsh new law against illegal immigration is being justified in part as a measure to combat crime. The murder of an Arizona rancher in March, allegedly by somebody in the country without documentation, galvanized support for the bill.
The death of the rancher was a tragedy, and drug-related violence along the border is a real problem, but it is a smear to blame low-skilled immigrant workers from Latin America for creating a crime problem in Arizona.
The crime rate in Arizona in 2008 was the lowest it has been in four decades. In the past decade, as the number of illegal immigrants in the state grew rapidly, the violent crime rate dropped by 23 percent, the property crime rate by 28 percent. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 732391, member: 9859"] [B]Cato: "[I]t is a smear to blame" immigrants for Arizona crime[/I][/B] [I] [B][B]Cato's Griswold: "[I]t is a smear to blame low-skilled immigrant workers from Latin America for creating a crime problem in Arizona."[/I][/B][/B][I] In an April 27 post, Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, wrote that "Arizona's harsh new law against illegal immigration is being justified in part as a measure to combat crime" and that "drug-related violence along the border is a real problem." But, Griswold continued, "it is a smear to blame low-skilled immigrant workers from Latin America for creating a crime problem in Arizona." From Griswold's post: [/I][/I] [INDENT][I][I]Arizona's harsh new law against illegal immigration is being justified in part as a measure to combat crime. The murder of an Arizona rancher in March, allegedly by somebody in the country without documentation, galvanized support for the bill. The death of the rancher was a tragedy, and drug-related violence along the border is a real problem, but it is a smear to blame low-skilled immigrant workers from Latin America for creating a crime problem in Arizona. The crime rate in Arizona in 2008 was the lowest it has been in four decades. In the past decade, as the number of illegal immigrants in the state grew rapidly, the violent crime rate dropped by 23 percent, the property crime rate by 28 percent. [/I][/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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