April 19, 2008 9:31 PM
I went up to Putnam County over the weekend to speak out against a proposal by Republican Assemblyman Greg Ball to turn New York police into immigrant cops.The good news is that when i arrived at the Mahopac Library there was an article on the table in which the State said that Mr. Ball had just about all his facts wrong. Ball claims that 30% of criminals in state jails are "illegal immigrants". The state says that it is about 4%. In fact, foreign born all together only make up about 10% of the prison population. In other words, immigrants are committing crimes at rates below their proportion of the population. We can always count on our friends in the immigrant hating movement to lie to the native-born White population to try to stir up fear of an immigrant crime wave. I'll post more on this charde in coming days.