Knife of peace in Arras, France

[Bomb#20]

If France et al. had American immigration policies they would ...

For France to have similar immigration policies to those of the USA would require massive changes in geography

... because reasons.

such that France was isolated from the rest of Europe,

Google "et al.".

Africa, and Asia;

The EU is more isolated from Africa and Asia than the US is from Mexico.

No geography changes would be needed for the EU to actually deport illegal immigrants after their cases are decided, and in granting legal immigration to prioritize not becoming a ward of the state over having a relative in the EU, and to encourage immigrants to work rather than adding obstacles and encouraging them to live on welfare while radicalizing themselves.

Did you include vanilla apolitical street crime that's a consequence of leftists' anti-police and anti-prosecution attitudes?

Mere attitudes don't have such consequences; though enacted policies might.

Can you demonstrate that apolitical street crime is a consequence of leftist policies?

That some individual crimes are is trivial to demonstrate -- there have been any number of crimes by released prisoners who wouldn't have been released if it weren't for soft-on-crime leftists. The killing of Richard Adan is a well-known example. If you mean, can I demonstrate it's a large effect en masse, you've got burden of proof backwards. The previous poster claimed in the US you're in a lot more danger from the right than the left. To back up that claim he'd need to count crimes that are side-effects respectively of the left and the right, not just compare Sterling Hall bombings with Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombings. Since he didn't attempt to count them he has no case.

The fact that incarceration rates in the US are far higher than anywhere in Europe, but that street crime is not notably lower, strongly hints that rightist pro-police and pro-prosecution attitudes aren't effective in reducing that kind of crime.

And the fact that quinine consumption rates are far higher in countries with lots of malaria strongly hints that quinine is ineffective in treating malaria. Have you considered the possibility that incarceration rates in the US are higher because street crime is higher?

 

[bilby]

Have you considered the possibility that incarceration rates in the US are higher because street crime is higher?

Sure. Americans are a bunch of criminals.

I am so glad I live in Australia.



Oh, wait.

Shit.