Axious.comReported violent crime in the United States rose in 2020 for the first time in four years, but violent crime rates in 11 of the largest communities along the U.S.-Mexico border stayed below the national average, an Axios analysis found.
Why it matters:Year after year, data showing low violent crime rates in majority-Mexican American and Mexican immigrant border communities dispels myths of the U.S.-Mexico border as a region filled with crime and chaos.
By the numbers: The Axios analysis using FBI data and the 2020 census found 11 border communities had a violent crime rate of 340.2 per 100,000 residents, around 15 percent lower than the national average of 398.5.
Also, in the 11 communities from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, taken together, the average murder rate was 4.1 per 100,000 residents – well below the FBI’s reported national average of 6.5.
The intrigue: The disparity in violent crime rates is starker when comparing the 11 border communities with similar-size cities with similar poverty demographics further north.El Paso, Texas, a city of 681,000, had a violent crime rate of 318 per 100,000 residents. Memphis, a city of 650,00, has a violent crime rate of 2,356.5 – more than seven times higher.
Del Rio, Texas – a city of nearly 36,000 people, where mounted Border Patrol agents on horseback were seen charging Haitian migrants last month – had a violent crime rate of 162.4. Lima, Ohio, a city nearly the same size in population, had a violent crime rate of 688.8.
Calexico, California; Nogales, Arizona; and the Texas cities of Del Rio, Eagle Pass, and McAllen all had violent crime rates below 190.
Yes, but: The U.S. State Department during the summer issued an advisory cautioning U.S. citizens against travel to the Mexican state of Tamaulipas along the U.S. border due to high crime and kidnapping. Cuidad Juarez, the Mexican city that borders El Paso, also has seen a jump in violence due to fighting among cartels and gangs.
Yuma, Arizona, a farming community near the California state line, was the only border community with a violent crime rate near 500 and a murder rate approaching twice the national average.
But, but, but: According to FBI crime data, 10 of the 11 U.S. border communities maintained low rates of violent crime over the last five years.Alex Nowrasteh, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, told Axios the presence of the U.S. Border Patrol, one of the largest federal law enforcement agencies, along the border likely contributes to lower violent crime numbers.
In addition, he said the research-supported fact that various studies show immigrants are less likely to commit crimes overall helps explain the region's consistently low murder rates.
The bottom line: Crime and the migrant crisis along the border were among the issues defining the 2022 Midterm elections (especially by Republican candidates) but data show the two are not linked as some candidates might claim.
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Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott sending armored carriers to the border - Why???
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott seems to be taking his immigrant “invasion” claim very seriously. The Texas Tribune reports that under a state order, the National Guard will be sending 10 massive, armored personnel carriers to the border. The M113 vehicles, which look like tanks, were originally intended to transport foot soldiers across battlefields — and it’s not clear what purpose the Vietnam-era carriers would serve at the border, or whether weapons will be added to them.
Abbott has been falsely describing the flow of migrants into the U.S. from Mexico as an “invasion” much to the delight of conservatives.
(THERE IS NO INVASION, only more political bullshit.)
get a life, Abbott!
Soft on crime prosecutors and unfortunately a large black population are huge factors that weren't addressed. Find a city with 90% blacks and compare the crime rate with the cities in the valley that are 90% Hispanic.
Black prosecutors can't be relied upon to prosecute black criminals.
The new chrife don't know how to report crime statistics YET! or he's doing it on purpose, quien sabe? wants another term PORFAVOR NO!!!!!!
He's like trumputo can't take a hint. The voters don't want either one of you pendejos...LEAVE
Very few if any illegals remain in border cities. Most move to areas where there are more and better job opportunities. If you’re so much in favor of illegal immigration what are you personally doing? Are you feeding any of these illegals? Are you providing shelter for any? What are you doing? Or are you just talking and waiting for the working man to pickup the tab?
Thanks for all the information
Saw a young woman (looked Anglo) outside a Dollar Tree by Rivera HS, downtown you see a guy who used to be a military person (has a big german shepard), two white women not very old. AMERICANS and/or border residents just pass around them. Illegals DO NOT stay in border towns. These people ARE AMERICANS
Border town families still have values, morals,principles. There is still a nuclear family, granparents, granmothers close by.
Family controls us. Now, some bad apples exist but the elders rule by tough love. So most kids behave.
We do not want to hear the stories of "I suffered, days without eating, working for pennies, and I still survived and built a home with my own hands...etc"
People here are loving but tough "Si te quiero mijito pero no me c.....s".
The Valley is a magic place to live.
November 21, 2022 at 9:48 AM
Were the Angolos a$king for a handout? Personally I don't give Angolo$ handouts.
There was this Angolo artist woman at the Whataburger on Central that would ask for money. I heard she lost all of her forms of identification. To me she is just someone who does not want to work. Gente floja y loca. Worse than teachers.
So what's new with las RATAS at PUB?? Still paying for internet and the interest for that never arrived generator and false claims of paying for it? Purchasing land from cronys y compadres y comadres like that prsidenta at the pub board.
PINCHES MAMONES Y MAMONAS..
Need to continue complaining of the corruption at pub otherwise they'll hide and shred all the evidence....
Y el DA que Y el FBI que????
November 21, 2022 at 9:48 AM
You will change your mind during charro days. BELIEVE ME!!!
November 21, 2022 at 11:14 AM
Gente floja y loca. Worse than teachers",
true I had a teacher in jr hi. that had a long stick to point to the black board. Did't want to get off the desk. TRUE.
I heard there is a wave of red oooops I mean violence here y el guey cherife sits on his ass all day at motel seis.
November 21, 2022 at 3:01 PM
They just sit and wait for the 3 months off with pay.
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