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Do you think if the border was closed, the number of sexual harassments would go down?

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Yes

2172 votes

Anonymous 14w

Yeah obviously. Fewer people, fewer harassments. But the rate would probably stay around the same. The vast majority of assaults of any kind in immigrant communities are not reported to police. Some are identified incidentally by case workers, activists, and the occasional anthropologist, but, otherwise unknown. Thus, they don’t affect official statistics.

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Anonymous 14w

this is like asking if we blew up omaha nebraska would there be less sexual harassment ... like... yes.

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Anonymous 14w

Imma be real, immigrants aren’t the primary sexual assaulters; its obvious which group is primarily doing it

Anonymous 14w

wtf is this question??

Anonymous 14w

This premise is wild

Anonymous 14w

Not that this stops everything, but it’s also important to note that immigrants who are not here legally try to follow the law to a T because even a traffic ticket could cause them to be deported.

Anonymous 14w

Correlation ≠ causation bud

Anonymous 14w

Probably not. Not everything is because of immigrants. Some travel a long and treacherous distance to achieve more freedoms while some not all waste it the second they get here for some pussy. But more than likely no. I would continue but I believe yall don’t want my opinions it’s opposite of yours.

Anonymous 14w

People voting “No” just to affirm their identity politics is actually disgusting. You lessen the flow of illegal immigration and human/sex trafficking—yes, it’s real and yes, it’s happening—you will see sex crime numbers come down. By how much? That’s unclear, but you would see numbers come down, literally speaking. Ik people don’t like to admit when they’re wrong, but be so ffr here yall. You can’t “close” a border, but you CAN control the flow of immigration with proper border security—

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Anonymous 14w

less latina baddies 😢

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Anonymous

#3 14w

Thank you intelligent person

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Anonymous

#3 14w

Seeing this kind of intelligence on yikyak always amazes me thank you

Anonymous

#6 14w

Yeah the people calling this intelligence is crazy. Many sexual harassments go unreported REGARDLESS of skin tone, ethnicity, or nationally. Get a god damn grip

Anonymous

#3 14w

I said no bc I took it as a percentage per population instead of actual number since I thought the literal meaning was obviously yes

Anonymous

#6 14w

This made me lol

Anonymous

#8 14w

white men? bc it’s white men. the answer is unanimously white men 😄

Anonymous

#11 14w

Surprisingly its black men, but only by .5%

Anonymous

#8 14w

When you factor in false convictions, I’m sure it lowers much more. A black prisoner serving time for sexual assault is three-and-a-half times more likely to be innocent than a white person—MSU.edu

Anonymous

#11 14w

Do me a favor and look up the per capita crime rate

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Anonymous

#17 14w

—just like every other country in the world. I legit don’t understand how some people are so into their identity politics that they’re willing to deny that the crimes against humanity and drug influx from across the border are real issues. People will downvote this too bc I’m being realistic 😭

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Anonymous

#17 14w

I dont know what you want 17, like yes, less people means less sexual harassment. But that doesn’t mean it’s gonna go away. This question is LOADED to blame immigrants for sexual assault and THAT is the problem. They’re asking a loaded question to fulfill their own “identity politics.” I don’t know what you expect to accomplish with this comment

Anonymous

#17 14w

Yes it does exist. But white people have been leaders in genocide, raping, and pillaging since before the Atlantic Slave Trade. To push such a narrative to blame “the border hoppers” is slow af

Anonymous

#6 14w

Hometown mentioned whoop whoop

Anonymous

#19 14w

sorry i blew it up big dawg . yall had too many harassers i guess

Anonymous

#17 14w

While this question wasn’t about trafficking, it is definitely an important issue to consider as well. However, people being trafficked are already not traveling through official immigration channels, are a much smaller percentage of the population than people who experience harassment or SA, and are much less likely to have their stories uncovered. It doesn’t make sense to argue that the simple number of sex related crimes would be affected by a statistically significant amount.