Saving us from the Aliens...

We all know how the conservatives want to save us--and all of western civilization--from the illegals who are participating in a true free market fashion of going to where the jobs are. They do this pejoratively and lecture paternalistic on how they are protecting good citizens.

Well it turns out we should spend more time protecting us from ourselves [via Rockridge Institute]

A study by the Public Policy Institute of California, a non-partisan policy research organization, finds that immigrants and their children are much less likely to commit crime than the US-born, concluding that "spending additional dollars to reduce immigration or to increase enforcement against the foreign-born will not have a high return in terms of public safety. The foreign-born in California already have extremely low rates of criminal activity."