Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Atlantic - Yaoo News: The Problem With Downplaying Immigrant [illegal alien] Crime - "politicians and media who want to blame Trump or his supporters can find the real culprit in their own mirrors"


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The Problem With Downplaying Immigrant [illegal alien] Crime

Why has the Donald Trump candidacy—which so many professionals and pundits at first dismissed as a joke—flared this summer? In the first week of July, 15 percent of Republicans supported Trump for president in a YouGov poll. By the third week, that support had almost doubled, to 28 percent—with another 10 percent listing him as their second choice.

Something happened in July to send Trump’s numbers soaring. That something may have been the murder of Kathryn Steinle.
On July 5, the 32-year-old Steinle posed with her father for a photograph on a San Francisco pier at 6:30 on a Wednesday evening. Suddenly there was a pop. Steinle crumpled. She died in hospital two hours later.
The stunningly random killing left behind a devastated family—and a confessed killer: Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been convicted of seven previous felonies and five times been ordered deported from the United States. ...
     Liberal hedges aside, didn't know it was still possible for the Atlantic to write such a non-PC-drenched article on this topic.