not only are immigrants more virtuous than you are, they are safer to be around. in other words, stope complaining, they are your superiors. but, wait, are we sure that that is true? are people who are in this country precisely because they were willing to break our immigration laws really less likely to break other r kinds of laws? it doesn t make a lot of sense. yet, until today, strangely enough, no one could say for sure whether it was true. because rival statistics didn t seem to exist. our government tracks pretty much every trend and every phenomenon you can think of, from how many pounds of pistachio nuts are recalled every year to how many fifth graders are injured on swing sets and how many people die bathtubs. this is a nation of record keepers. we are overseen by bureaucrat numbers control our lives except on this subject. somehow the government went for years without honestlyly trying to track the volume
a large, unskilled population into its country illegally, that is that is an act of law breaking at the conception. and there is no reason why they would then have any other respect for other laws. and, to be honest, i found that last five minutes surreal where, you know, your guest s main concern is certain illegal immigrants are getting crimes committed against them by other illegal immigrants and they are scared to go to the police. that s not what these statistics show. these statistics, which for political correctness reasons, we were prevented from knowing in recent years, show that this country is in effect importing a criminal class. and it does not check any aspect of the criminal class it imports. now, the few of us who have the misfortune to go through the legal immigration
tucker: there were dozens of t democratic obama employees. there are four on the record sources today in the the washington post for the cia, the nsc, the white house and for the state department saying this didn t happen. you would never and a million years do anything to impede tucker: okay.ay people who obviously, you know, they may be right. let s look into it? i m okay with that. tucker: allegation is made by obama staffers, former obama staffers, that cocaine was sold in this country, narcotics because the obama people allowed it to be. i really doubt that. tucker: all right. but have you no problem withou an investigation to get to the bottom of it. i have no problem with investigating. i have a problem with interference and intimidation. i think what we are seeing it s one thing you have new sources, i have my sources. we go back at night and we have our separate corners. but we have to share but with something like investigations, we can t fight over th
to cato or some think tank can we pause and say we were totally wrong about what we have been saying? the problem here is we want to get violentin criminals off the street, correct? tucker: we don t want them in here in the first place. why are we making law enforcement deal with these people? why don t we stop it at the border and then we don t have to put our police and citizens at risk? i think that s a great idea. the way do you that is that you make sure you have a functioning legal immigration system and a process for people to go through. ale only people who aree hiding from law enforcement tucker: don t we bring in more than a million people legally every year? it s clearly out of whack. we are also a much bigger country. tucker: more than every other country in the world? no, we are not a bigger country. our workforce is actually much more dynamic. tucker: maybe. leaving the economics aside. that s another show, another debate. i just want to acknowledge tha
does that make you reassess what you thought a little bit? what i want to assess is how do we solve the problem? if you want to quibble about statistics you should bring somebody from kato.ut tucker: it s not quibbling. what we have been claiming is the very opposite of the truth. i want to focus on solving problems. that problem is criminals here public safety threats. i want them off the streets, tucker. only way you can do that is to make sure that the crimes they commit is being reported by the victims. if the victim is anay immigrant, we need to make sure tucker: clearly someone is reporting these crimes. we don t have a problem with that because, again, the i mean, we have disproportionately bigi numbers here. my question is why do you think noncitizens are committing crimes at far greater rate than americans are?on i think we have got to make sure that individuals coming to the country are properly vetted. they are going through the process they need to. tucker: