Why is the right freaking out about immigration

this is a level of cancer that goes almost beyond absurdity

Lol uh oh

Genuinely curious though why it seems to be a big issue

one of you asks us, a conservative server, to help him make an anti-freedom argument

and then you come in here posting a naked graph like it's supposed to be a good conversation piece

or do you not think it matters where a statistical graphic comes from

or do you not even know yourself!?

Yikes lots of hostility. Is that your way of asking for the source? Very inefficient my friend

NPR

jesus

data interpretations are very far from absolute

Ok, but we can still interpret

That’s not an argument for no interpretarion

the same large set of data may be used to create several conflicting interpretations

Again, you aren’t saying what’s wrong with this data set

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Dec/BP%20Total%20Apps%20FY1925-FY2017.pdf here is the og source if you care

holy hell

I'm telling you it's not the data set that's wrong

Then...? It’s the graph? Lol

What’s the matter friend

border crossings are like any crime stat in that their data is always a shadow

you never have anywhere near full accountability of criminal activity

so a liberal outlet like NPR will use an interpretation of that incomplete data that is attractive to them and their audience

Sure. But unless there’s a reason that we’ve gotten worse and finding illegal immigrants, the trends are still somewhat indicative of the truth

and you should keep their graphics off this server

There is no interpretation in that graph. It’s just a graph. Can we talk about it rather than just dismissing the concept of statistics

Lol you guys can’t handle graphs? Oh Lordy

you aren't equipped to talk about this topic

For no reason other than your word? Sure.

Having 1 person cross the border illegally is bad

Also what I V L I V S says is correct

There’s also a problem as to what they count as “border crossing apprehension”

And you could look at it two ways: one they’re not doing there jobs, or finding some other way to evade law enforcement. Or two there are less illegals crossing

@wahx

which do you think is more likely, that despite increased border security hirings they've become much less effective over time, that migrants have somehow learned how to evade capture despite, again, more border security agents, or that there are fewer crossing?

Are the immigrants getting sneakier? How? What on earth does that mean?

seems to me that what we're doing at the border is effective

if the goal is to slow down immigrants. It's almost completely a non-issue at this point, so my original question is still why are conservatives so frothing at the mouth at border crossings?

I wonder if you noticed the limits of that chart you posted