As I understand it, the "study" you mention included all immigrants, and did not differentiate legal immigrants, from illegal aliens. Legal immigrants could easily skew that data, as they would likely be on their best behavior. And to be clear, every illegal alien committed at least one crime by entering the country, and a second by staying, and (if they work) a third.
In any event, even if the claim held true for illegal aliens, the crimes illegal aliens do commit in the US, would not be committed in the US, if the illegals were not in the US, correct?
But to be clear, by "good or bad", I meant the net benefit for the country.
Exactly! The bill would only have made illegal aliens legal more quickly.
So rather than stopping them from coming in, or sending them back, we just make them legal.
This would be like legalizing voter fraud to reduce voter fraud.
So, you agree that illegal aliens flooding across the border helps the rich but not the poor, yes?