I don't care if Arizona disagrees with the facts. That's their problem, not mine. As for why we might care otherwise that would involve looking at the holistic effects of that population of immigrants and comparing it to the benefit, not simply looking at crime rates. I mean that's just common sense. This thread just happened to be about crime and so that aspect was particularly relevant.
When telling someone they just said the dumbest thing ever you should probably make sure you haven't just said something extremely stupid yourself. lol.
If illegals aren't committing crimes at a higher rate than citizens, then crime is simply not relevant to the question of illegal immigration. The same arguments could be made for keeping out legal immigrants. Newsflash, all of the following groups of people contain members who commit crimes: illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, citizens, white people, brown people, Christians, Muslims, Jews, tennis players, police, doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs.
Yet Trump keeps touting individual crimes to prove his point about illegal immigrants. The real question conservatives should be asking is, why?
At what point do they get tried of being manipulated?