Peter Kirsanow ' s Numerous Errors

Last Thursday,Tucker Carlson invited Peter Kirsanow onto his top-rated Fox News showTucker Carlson Tonight to discuss illegal immigration and crime. They began the segment by playing a recent clip of me and Carlson arguing about data on illegal immigrant criminality in Texas. In thatearlier segment, Carlson said we don ’t have good data on illegal immigrant criminality and I said we do, specifically from thestate of Texas. The data show that illegal immigrants have a lower murder conviction rate than native-born Americans.  Kirsanow responded to my clip in a multi-minute near-monologue. Unfortunately, Kirsanow made many errors and misstatements. His comments on television parroted apiece that he wrote earlier this year inNational Review.That piece made so many mathematical, definitional, and logical errors that I rebutted it in detail inReason this February.Since I was not invited on Thursday ’s segment to debate Kirsanow while he criticized my points and presented his own, I’ve decided to respond here.  Below are Kirsanow’s quotes from his recent appearance onTucker Carlson Tonight, followed by my rebuttal.There ’s something called the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program and you can extrapolate from that and get pretty reliable data.No, you cannot extrapolate from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) data to get reliable national estimates of illegal immigrant criminality. The subsequent statistics that Kirsanow uses in his segment are nearly a...
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