@jhine: the majority of Jan 6th convicted were not trespassing and not violent, some were old grandmas that just were there to protest, one person wasn’t even there and got arrested and put in prison. The FBI under Biden simply scraped all cell phone signals in the area and charged everyone, there was no change of venue allowed, most didn’t get a proper trial (evidence was not allowed to be entered on the defendants behalf) if they got a trial at all and the Obama appointed judge refused to set bail to forcing many to settle with a guilty plea - those that didn’t sat in jail longer than their sentence would’ve been, in the cases where the government didn’t get its way, they then went what they call venue shopping, basically, retrying aspects of the case or finding new charges in different courts until they found a Democrat judge willing to bring the hammer down.
By the time Trump came to office, the majority of the cases were still pending, some still sat in pre-trial detention, that is illegal, by virtue of the way the process was handled, the majority had already been decided by the Supreme Court were improperly handled and defendants should be let go, the Biden admin ignored that order.
So for the MAJORITY of cases SCOTUS decided that their methods were IMPROPER and by virtue of that should not be charged, yet the Biden admin CONVICTED them anyway or where they already served the sentence, refused to PARDON them. That is why they were pardoned, because Biden’s DOJ should’ve done it by order of SCOTUS and didn’t, because pardoning or stopping the persecution of Jan 6th defendants in the middle of an election campaign would’ve really hurt Democrats.
Protest is still legal, even overthrowing the government is legal. There was a small minority of people that were violent, they were convicted and not pardoned.
And on topic: illegal immigrants are responsible for more crime, any crime they commit, whether violent or non-violent is a crime they wouldn’t have committed if they weren’t here. So by definition, any crime they commit would’ve increased the stats on the total number of criminal elements in society. Most of the talking points about this come from a single blog article a few years ago where someone claims that reported crime is down, we have more illegals immigrants, therefore more immigrants equals less crime. It’s a stupid comparison.
Compared to the rest of the world, the US is one of the largest importers of both legal and illegal immigrants (both absolutely as well as relative to the total population). Europe has a ‘problem’ when a few thousand a year enters their country illegally, yet the US has taken in to the tune of 20M people, almost 8% of the total US population under Biden alone, about 2M people in Texas alone are currently illegal, imagine 2M of France’s population being illegal (it currently is estimated to be an order of magnitude lower and they are in perpetual ‘crisis’).
So how much do illegals actually contribute to crime: almost 2/3 of federal crime arrests currently involve illegals immigrants. In April of 2023 alone, there were over 300,000 police encounters with illegal immigrants, and again, they makeup about about half the population share of African Americans, imagine police arresting 600k African Americans per month, there would be riots. And this is not just about legal residents, in 2023 850 illegals were killed by the gangs they paid to transport them, statistically that is 5% of all US murders just happening at the border by illegal immigrant gang members, again, proportionally way out of whack with their population.
