Neil Munro 29 Aug 2026
7:25
Migrant crime is a “fake problem,” says Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, a pro-migration leader in the Democrat Party.
Murphy told a friendly audience in Connecticut on August 26:
Nobody likes to hear this, but immigrants — first-generation immigrants — and undocumented immigrants both commit crimes at rates lower than natural-born Americans, than people that are born here in this country. So, if you want to live in a safe community, you are actually better off living in a community with people that just got to the United States of America.
Migrants “can in fact lower the crime rate, but it doesn’t help anybody who got killed by illegal aliens,” responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Democrats ignore the death toll from migrants because they want to see migration as an unblemished economic and civic benefit, Krikorian said:
The open migration people hold that view as a almost religious principle … They’re just not able to say that “Immigration has costs and benefits, and on balance, I’m for it [and] I acknowledge that there are costs.”
They can’t say that because immigration has to be an undiluted good [under the] “oppressor-oppressed” calculus that the left bases everything on: Migrants are an oppressed group and therefore morally above reproach.
They just have to take this view [even though] it hurts their their own their own political prospects. This is a ideological, quasi-religious issue for both the left and the libertarians who were now commingled.
Besides, Krikorian added, progressives quietly know “You’ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelet.”
Elite Democrats also know that they can insulate themselves from migrant crime, Krikorian said, adding, “You know Chris Murphy doesn’t have to worry about his daughter being killed by an illegal alien like Laken Riley was killed [in 2024].”
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