{"id":14468,"date":"2024-08-21T03:13:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T03:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14468"},"modified":"2024-08-21T03:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T03:13:27","slug":"rnc-speakers-give-exaggerated-impression-of-immigrant-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14468","title":{"rendered":"RNC Speakers Give Exaggerated Impression of Immigrant Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;A disproportionate number of undocumented immigrants are convicted of driving without a license&#8221; or &#8220;using a false Social Security Number,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leitf.org\/2018\/06\/fact-sheet-immigrants-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a>&nbsp;the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force. But immigrants &#8220;are less prone&#8221; to committing crimes that are unrelated to their immigration status, it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leitf.org\/2018\/06\/fact-sheet-immigrants-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continues<\/a>. &#8220;Existing evidence shows that immigrants do not represent a threat to public safety any more than every other segment of the population.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XCKwi6qMpr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/16\/republican-national-convention-nikki-haley-ron-desantis-donald-trump\/\">Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis Bend the Knee to Donald Trump<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis Bend the Knee to Donald Trump&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/16\/republican-national-convention-nikki-haley-ron-desantis-donald-trump\/embed\/#?secret=sjUGUhsMSs#?secret=XCKwi6qMpr\" data-secret=\"XCKwi6qMpr\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;A disproportionate number of undocumented immigrants are convicted of driving without a license&#8221; or &#8220;using a false Social Security Number,&#8221; notes the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force. But immigrants &#8220;are less prone&#8221; to committing crimes that are unrelated to their immigration status, it continues. &#8220;Existing evidence shows that immigrants do not represent a threat to public safety any more than every other segment of the population.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/16\/republican-national-convention-nikki-haley-ron-desantis-donald-trump\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,221,372,135,25,130,968,506,170],"class_list":["post-14468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-falsehoods","tag-immigration","tag-republican","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14469,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions\/14469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}