First, am I illiterate or have the stats on your own link increased markedly over the past 8 years in every category, noticeably changing dramatically in 2021?! My bad if I read that wrong, but seems like these numbers support the fear that crime is increasing with a Biden border policy.
Regardless, Stats aside, let's be honest about why people fear immigrants when there is a relatively open border. If you have a 100 person sample size of random Americans, sure there is going to be a full spectrum of people and some will be criminals. In a 100 person immigrant population, the number of crimes may be similar or even less, but skewed to each end of the curve, no? There may be a lot of people more excellent than the average American. There may be engineers coming from say India(or wherever), doctors etc. The fear is the opposite end of the spectrum. If there is a porous border, why wouldn't a country like China take advantage of that to send spies? Are you that naive to think this is not a golden opportunity that they would absolutely take advantage of? Do you not think criminals of all kinds will use the opportunity? Will countries like Venezuela not send undesirable folks? That is common sense that people with bad intent in some way will take advantage of it. Maybe it will be some other way not imagined. Also, are the outstanding immigrants more likely to migrate legally or illegally, duh.
I would assume immigrants are on the more extreme end of the spectrum. Some outstanding people that cant receive the same opportunity/compensation in their own country and some that are facing tough times for a number of reasons, some nefarious.
First, Shouldn't we be at least given the chance to vet those coming in to ensure that there is no illegal backgrould, mal-intent?
Finally, I'm assuming you would disagree, but shouldn't immigrants be people that are exceptional that are going to benefit the country they are moving to? Is that considered a wrong thing to expect in 2024?