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150 WORDS REPLY TO THISMany people believe immigrants increase the risk of crime and drugs to communities throughout the US. Many political figures like former President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain and media outlets. However, the America Journal of Criminal Justice published a study answering two focused question pertaining to immigrants increasing the risk of crime and drugs to communities. The first question of the study is asked about the characteristics of the person who has committed a federal offense. The answer is disproportionately individuals whose race is either white/white Hispanic or “other”, and who are U.S. citizens (Sibila, D., Pollock, W., & Menard, S. (2017)). The feudal offenses in the study consisted on homicide, assault, robbery, marijuana, drug and weapon crimes. This study shows that non-citizens have statistically high marijuana arrests but less homicide, assault, and weapons. The study doesn’t indicated a difference in non- U.S. citizen or U.S. citizen arrests with hard drugs. So the final outcome to question one is the non-U.S. citizens have a little to no impact on increase federal crime or drugs introduced in a community. I believe the justice system needs to just really on facts and race should not be included in statistics because it serves no purpose. In a time where anyone can cause there sex and must people are mixed anyways it just seems to be a waste of time. I would like a study done on nationalities not race. The focus on race just drives propaganda to point fingers without realizing an underling cause such as why people commit crime and why they do drugs.Females have a much lower percentage of violent crimes and drug related crimes. Making sex a viable factor in finding the “why” they have lower crime rates. The Bureau of Justice statistics for women account for 15% of all DEA drug arrests. The why is these questions could be cultural relate for the US and immigrants (Sibila, D., Pollock, W., & Menard, S. (2017)). Also, knowing the threat from drugs from Mexico is larger than the threat from immigration. Not only is it a problem for the US but it causes a problem for Mexico. The money from US citizens influence the gangs/cartel members ability to dominate areas in Mexico by causing extreme violence and forced control (Valeriano, B., & Powers, M. (2010)). Mexico is also known for mass corruption within their government leaving there laws and policies non-effective (Valeriano, B., & Powers, M. (2010)). I believe the amount of money the US Citizens pay from drugs a large portion goes to guns. The guns in Mexico “Drug cartels” come from the US. So if both Mexico and the US built stronger boarders there will be less drugs that cross into the US and less guns brought from US to Mexico. The more that both countries can work together on these issues the crime rates in both counties will reduce. Immigration, violent crimes, drug crimes are three different types of problems with some similarities but clear differences. To protect both US citizen’s rights and non-citizen liberties there has to be a clear process for any language to learn the correct ways to enter the US legally. Instead of someone at a border giving a direct no to someone who wants to come to the US but maybe have a government agency that helps people enter the US legally. We can’t rely only on the media or internet that can be exploited to benefit a criminal agency.Reference:Sibila, D., Pollock, W., & Menard, S. (2017). Citizenship status and arrest patterns for violent and narcotic-related offenses in federal judicial districts along the U.S./Mexico border. American Journal of Criminal Justice : AJCJ, 42(3), 469-488. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy2.apus.edu/10.1007/s12103-016-9375-1Valeriano, B., & Powers, M. (2010). United states-mexico: The convergence of public policy views in the post-9/11 world. Policy Studies Journal, 38(4), 745-775. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/docview/759604331?accountid=8289
