An interesting read……
Daniel Leeper shared the following rebuttal to the current conservative talking point of: “Why aren’t liberals nearly as upset about the white women who have been murdered by undocument immigrants as they are about Renee Goode and Alex Pretti?”
“I’m naturally more leery of a homegrown white male, than I am of a person - documented or undocumented - of any other race. Without going into who is more predominantly known to commit sexual crimes against children, because this is better documented already, we can simply go by the body count from just 1984. I was a sophomore in high school at that time.
As of late, they keep holding up a murdered young woman like a passport photo at a crime scene—Laken Riley, killed on February 22, 2024, in Athens, Georgia, by a man who was in the U.S. unlawfully. That happened. It’s real. It’s unbearable. 
And multiple things can be true at the same time:
• One undocumented man can commit a horrific murder.
• And it can also be true that immigrants—including undocumented immigrants—are, in the aggregate, less likely to commit crimes than the native-born. 
• And it can also be true that the “exception” is being used like a battering ram to justify tactics that would never survive daylight if we applied the same standard to homegrown American violence.
Because if we’re going to do policy by funeral—if the rule is “a small number of killings by that population justifies sweeping punishment of that population”—then America owes itself a long, screaming look in the mirror.
Start the clock: San Ysidro, 1984 (Ten minutes from where I lived at the time and friends were involved).
On July 18, 1984, a homegrown American walked into a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, San Diego and turned lunchtime into an abattoir—21 people murdered in minutes. 
Now, watch how the narrative behaves.
When the killer is “one of ours,” the story becomes weather: tragedy, madness, lone wolf, broken system, a complicated past, a sad timeline, a “community healing.”
When the killer is undocumented, the story becomes blood doctrine: collective blame, collective punishment, collective suspicion—like immigration status is contagious, like violence is genetic, like cruelty is prevention.
The body count they don’t want to say out loud
Just a short roll call of major mass murders and mass shootings committed here at home stacks bodies faster than the talking heads can say “border invasion”:
• Oklahoma City bombing (1995): 168 killed—the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, carried out by an American anti-government extremist. 
• Las Vegas (2017): 60 killed 
• Pulse nightclub (2016): 49 killed 
• Virginia Tech (2007): 32 killed 
• Sandy Hook (2012): 27 killed 
• Sutherland Springs (2017): 26 killed 
• San Ysidro McDonald’s (1984): 21 killed 
That handful alone is over 400 lives—and that’s without even walking through Columbine, Charleston, El Paso, Parkland, Uvalde, Buffalo, Tree of Life, and the endless “smaller” massacres that still erased whole families.
And if you want the “slow-motion” mass murderers—the ones who didn’t need a stage, just time:
• John Wayne Gacy: convicted of murdering 33 
• Gary Ridgway (Green River Killer): confessed/linked to 49 known victims 
“No border. No cartel. No “invasion.” Just Americans—manufacturing death like it’s a domestic product.
Here’s the part they never finish saying:
Even if you restrict the lens to mass shootings as researchers define them, the U.S. has endured close to 2,000 murders in mass shootings from 1966 through the end of 2024. 
So when someone tells you the central public-safety crisis is a politically curated handful of undocumented offenders—when they speak as if the “real” danger wears an accent—what they’re doing is not safety.
It’s storytelling.
It’s taking grief hostage and using it as a flashlight to illuminate only the places they already want you to hate—while leaving the rest of the house in the dark, where the biggest fires keep burning.
The moral math:
If the standard is “somebody from Group X killed an American, therefore punish Group X,” then by that logic we should’ve “cracked down” on:
• white American men (statistically overrepresented among mass public shooters),
• domestic extremists, and
• the gun pipeline that makes impulsive rage into high-capacity tragedy.
But that’s where the courage fails—because that conversation doesn’t let you outsource the threat to a scapegoat. It forces you to admit the call is coming from inside the house.
So they change the subject back to the border, because it’s easier to build policy on fear of the outsider than to build policy on accountability for the familiar.
And that’s the tell.
Because a nation serious about protecting life doesn’t need a villain with foreign paperwork to justify decency. A nation serious about protecting life counts all the bodies—without checking their immigration status first.”