Wealthy leftists have so successfully erased the issue of class from every corner of their consciousness that they sincerely don’t understand that a neighborhood filled with immigrant professors and dentists is different from the kind of immigrant neighborhood that less wealthy Americans get.
I also want to note that “immigrants commit far fewer crimes” is a talking point that does not correspond with reality. These numbers do not exist because nobody was ever allowed to count. There’s literally no way to calculate it in any meaningful manner. For example, I was naturalized in 2016. If I commit a crime, will it count as immigrant crime? Obviously not. Am I still an immigrant? Just as obviously yes.
These are empty, meaningless talking points by people whose understanding of reality is constrained by ideological blinkers. “I don’t know any drug addicts in my very privileged life, so drug addiction must be a myth” would be an equivalent of the quoted take. “I’ve never been to Australia, so it must be invented.”
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