Adam Carolla criticized arguments comparing crime rates among illegal immigrants with those of American-born citizens, saying the comparison misses the central issue of whether people who entered the country illegally should have been present in the first place.
Carolla argued that removing people who are in the United States illegally remains worthwhile even if only a portion of those removed would otherwise commit serious crimes.
He said preventing crimes committed by people who should not be in the country is sufficient reason to enforce immigration laws.
“It is worth getting rid of 70% of people who are here illegally to get 30, which turns out to be a large group of people if you’re getting into the millions, of rapists and child abusers and murderers. I’m fine with that. So I’ll use your math,” Carolla said.
He then addressed an argument he said is frequently made in discussions about illegal immigration: that American-born citizens commit crimes at a higher rate than people who entered the country illegally.
Carolla disputed the premise but said that even accepting it for the sake of argument would not change his position.
“The other math that you assholes like to use is, which is another lie, but it’s fine. We’ll use it. They go, Well, you know, American-born citizens, people here, kill at a higher rate than the illegals who are here. You understand that? Which is a lie, but fine. I’ll go along with you,” Carolla said.
For Carolla, the comparison does not address crimes committed by people whose presence in the United States was already unlawful.
He argued that a lower comparative crime rate would not make those individual crimes acceptable or unavoidable.
“So your argument is, however many of these chicks got raped or killed by illegals, that’s okay because a higher percentage of white folks, or maybe a white guy would have killed them later in the week? I guess that’s your argument. I don’t want anybody. It should be zero!” Carolla said.
Carolla continued by rejecting the idea that pointing out that most illegal aliens do not commit violent crimes resolves the issue.
His position centered on eliminating preventable crimes rather than comparing the percentage of offenders between different populations.
“That is an argument. It’s a retarded argument where they go, Well, these guys come in, and most of them don’t murder anybody, and then you guys who are born here, you murder more. All right, but there’s still some amount of murder that you’re just agreeing on there’s some amount of murder,” Carolla said.
He illustrated his argument with hypothetical numbers, comparing 100 killings committed by American-born people with 37 committed by people in the country illegally.
Carolla said his concern was that the latter category would not exist if those offenders had never been permitted to remain in the United States.
“So, the white guys kill 100 of our daughters, and then the guys who are here illegally only kill 37 of our daughters. Is that your argument? How about my argument? They shouldn’t be here!” Carolla said.
Carolla’s argument focused on prevention rather than relative statistics.
He maintained that crimes committed by American citizens do not provide a justification for accepting additional crimes committed by people who are in the country illegally.
He ended his remarks with a profanity-filled rejection of the crime-rate comparison and a demand for enforcement against illegal immigration.
“Then we’d just have 100 dead from Whitey. F**king retards! Shut the f**k up with your retarded arguments! They’re not supposed to be here! Go the f**k home! You’re not doing anything, and you’re getting people killed,” Carolla said.
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