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This is phenomenally off-topic, but since it's so easy to rebut: border counties in the US have lower crime than the rest of the country.

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... and the officials don't have an incentive to diminish the stats?

They currently (and at the time the stats were last collected) have the exact opposite incentive.

Maybe from the top of the US administration, yes. But from the guys over the nearby river, with their "plata o plomo" billboards ...

Maybe I'm wrong. I'll simply observe officials have various incentives to tweak the numbers in either direction.

I was responding to the claim that Fox is pushing an invasion narrative. The invasion is real and dismissing it doesn't help anyone. Unless you live down there or have family that does, you can't comprehend how bad it is down there right now. Maybe we should have livestreams setup so the rest of the country can see it.

https://www.cato.org/blog/crime-along-mexican-border-lower-r...

According to the FBI it's lower. Unless it's changed dramatically in the last 2 years, at which point I'd suggest that maybe this new "tough on immigration" tactic isn't working.

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