How would this appear to you if he had committed the crime a day after becoming a citizen? Does a piece of paper make it better?

@DUCHESSA It's amazing how a piece of paper is more powerful than DNA.

@IAJO163 Both, my friend, have different "functions"..

@IAJO163.To think people from the same country or from countries that have the same mother tongue are the same / share the same culture shows lack of knowledge...

BTW, dear, I am not from Mexico.

Keep the sarcasm in the drawer, please. There are bad ones in every race but we didn't need to have this bad one in our land....Like it or not DT stated a fact.

@DUCHESSA He stated an irrelevant fact, and will no doubt in future use it as part of his anti immigration line. The violent crime rate among immigrants, legal or not, is actually below average according to the studies I've seen. But you won't hear that from Trump.

@DUCHESSA Trump used fear to support his policy. They do that in religion too, don't they?

@Paul4747 Dear, I watch the news...yes, the news many of you love so much, I see the street behavior...I live in NY and while most immigrants are decent this one is not....neither are the 17 (M S 13) accused of killing a 15 y/o kid. I could give you more "statistics".

BTW, tell the family of the girl he killed that his presence in USA.... ACCORDING TO YOU... is an "irrelevant fact".

@IAJO163
See, I came from a country where the first wave of immigration (1780- 1940s) made the nation a great one...but the actual one is sucking the resources, carrying their diseases and their illiteracy in....as well as an increase in the crime. Don't talk to me about fear because I don't feel like laughing at your lack of knowledge.

BTW, I speak Spanish...and I hear what people say in said language. No, dear, no fear but knowledge.

@DUCHESSA Whether he is or is not an immigrant is irrelevant. As much as his eye color or what he had for breakfast that day. I feel nothing but sorrow for the family of this girl, but their daughter's memory is now being used in a sick political game.
If you have a pre-existing bias about immigration, this incident will confirm it. If you don't care one way or the other, it's irrelevant to the crime whether he was an immigrant or not. That's the fact.

@DUCHESSA I see... YOUR immigration was the good kind, but THIS immigration is the bad kind.

No, I'm keeping my sarcasm right here. It's fully justified by your attitude. You're a nativist, only 2 generations removed at most from immigrant roots, and now you want to keep everyone else out. That "I've got mine" attitude is what made America what it is today.

@Paul4747 No, to be an immigrant is not a problem...to be an illegal one yes. This guy was caught because a camera...he was working with an assumed name and could have escaped by the tangent since we didn't have any record about him.. I don't think you want to understand.

@Paul4747 No, dear. I feel you must read -again- my post. I welcome all decent immigrants...as you should do too. I guess your lack of knowledge about what a person can do to a nation is beyond everything.
Think of what an illegal immigrant, with a contagious disease...one who never saw a doctor in his / her own country, can do to our land. See, legal immigrants are seen by doctors before granting them the proper documentation.

To try to enlighten people such as yourself is a waste of time.

@DUCHESSA What wave of immigration? Did they legally get documented by the indigenous residents here? They stole this land and proceeded to kick everyone else out that they felt didn't belong. Now they're upset because they want it back? People are jumping into a big pool of conjecture concerning this and should remain silent until more facts are know.