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By Larry Elder -
Vice President Kamala Harris just returned from Guatemala where she discussed the “root cause” of the post-election “surge” of “migrants” to our southern border.
Harris said, “People leave home … because they don’t have opportunities there to fulfill their basic needs like feeding their children or keeping a roof over their head, or they’re fleeing some kind of harm.”
But the U.S. also faces a surge in crime, including homicide, in many American cities. Why aren’t we discussing this root cause? It cannot be because, as Harris says about migrants, people “don’t have opportunities there to fill their basic needs.” After all, these migrants come precisely because they see opportunity here that they do not see in their home countries.
But about Los Angeles, the local NBC affiliate recently reported: “One hundred forty-one people have been murdered so far in 2021, a 22% increase over the same period in 2020. Six hundred people have been struck by gunfire in shootings in 2021, a 59% increase over this time last year.”
About Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times recently reported:
Children in Chicago are dying from gun violence at a rate three times higher than last year. …
Ten children aged 15 or younger have been shot dead so far this year, up from the three children fatally shot during the same time period in 2020. … And that’s more than the number killed in all of 2019, the data shows.
The city of Chicago often leads the nation in the total number of homicides, but the annual homicide rate (murders per 100,000 residents) in a dozen or so big American cities is often higher than that of Chicago—some of them much higher.
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