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pjc50today at 2:31 PM7 repliesview on HN

Anyone banging on about coverups of crime due to immigrants should get immediately put in the bad faith argument bin, even if they were a Minister.


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reliabilityguytoday at 2:48 PM

Why? Immigrants cannot commit crimes?

This kind of logic does more disservice than people realize. You can combat bigotry towards immigrants (issue #1), without covering up for criminal immigrants (issue #2) in fear of increase of issue #1 among the natives. It only brings up more resentment and bigotry.

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retinarostoday at 7:38 PM

wake up its 2026 even obama and clinton are saying more or less that now about illegal immigration

kronatoday at 4:45 PM

This database exposed half a million weekend cases which were heard with zero press notification. Many grooming gang trials were heard this way. The database is being deleted weeks before the national inquiry into the grooming gang cover up begins, and the official reason for deleting the data is nonsensical.

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9x39today at 3:50 PM

Actually that’s what data and the preponderance of victims allege: an intersection of immigration and policing which interlocked to systematically deprioritize the investigation into abuse of working-class white girls by an over represented ethnic group.

In the local data that the audit examined from three police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.

It’s unfortunate to watch people and entire countries twist themselves in logic pretzels to avoid ever suggesting that immigration has no ills, and we’re just being polite here about it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/what-is-the-casey-r...

https://celina101.substack.com/p/the-uks-rape-gang-inquiry

gulfofamericatoday at 2:33 PM

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carlosjobimtoday at 2:41 PM

Can you explain your reasoning? Horrible crimes committed by foreign men against native children were covered up for political reasons in the UK. This is common knowledge.

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mhh__today at 6:46 PM

Why? Grooming gangs went from being a far right conspiracy theory to "there was a coverup" being official government position in a week.