There seems to be an intense debate over whether illegal aliens or undocumented immigrants or whatever the current term is are law breakers or not.
Yeah, there
seems to be; But what there actually is is a deliberate conflation of breaking immigration and/or border crossing laws, with breaking laws against violent and/or property crime.
When a MAGA loon says "This
illegal is a law breaker", they are seeking to imply (without evidence) that regular citizens should
fear anyone who has unlawfully entered the country.
The actual crime statistics show that a rational and informed American should have a greater fear of people who did
not enter the country illegally - because US citizens and lawful residents commit violent and property crime against other US citizens and lawful residents at higher rates than do undocumented persons.
Knowing "This person is a law breaker" is not sufficient to know whether or not that person is likely to victimise you (or anyone else) in a violent crime, or a property crime. It's less sensible and reasonable to fear undocumented immigrants as it would be to fear jaywalkers.
It remains impossible to divide people into "bad" and "good" categories, or "untrustworthy" and "trustworty" for that matter - no matter how attractive such a binary division might be to Trump's army of simpletons.
Reality is complex and nuanced. "Law breaker" simply isn't a helpful characteristic when attempting to determine who is a danger to you, your familiy, your froends, or your property. It's far too broad to be useful. It includes almost everybody. I doubt that there are many adults anywhere in the world who have never broken any law.
But there are plenty of politicians who know that they can get elected if they sow enough
fear.