# im not racist but i have a question. **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 4, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/im-not-racist-but-i-have-a-question/259780 "2011-08-04T17:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 145
**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/im-not-racist-but-i-have-a-question/259780/145 "2011-08-05T14:19:17Z")
> [@WTborrow: Radar detector](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtborrow-radar-detector/44432/3): > > The do get arrested. Our jails and legal system is overflowing with criminals that shouldn’t even be here in the first place. > > Our economy can do just fine with immigrants that come here legally. The tsunami that comes over our souther border in the form of illegals hinders our economy by putting a huge strain on our social services. Barely a huge strain. As stated in the article, illegal immirants can not collect Social Security. Our jail and legal system is overflowing with all types of people, and illegal immigrants are only a small fraction of who is in the prison system: Article from 2007 in the NY Times: > **[Immigrants and Prison (Published 2007)](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/30leonside.html)** > > The facts, according to the Department of Justice, about immigrants and prisons. "In 2000, 27 percent of the inmates in federal prisons were noncitizens. Some of these noncitizens were illegal immigrants, and some were in this country legally. In 2001, this percentage dropped to 24 percent, and it continued dropping over the next four years, falling to 20 percent in 2005. " “Over all — combining federal and state prisons — 6.4 percent of the nation’s prisoners were noncitizens in 2005. This is down from 6.8 percent in 2000.” --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/im-not-racist-but-i-have-a-question/259780)._