Also gotta point out that both TX and FL deal with more criminals from across national borders ... by several orders of magnitude. This also lends explanation to the positions of California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Sort of,
Only one LAND border state, New Mexico, is in the top 10 at the #4 slot, being beaten out by 3 states with zero border connection in regards to a perceived illegal immigration problem.
New Mexico is a very poor state, shitty job market, lots of illegals and also a ton of drunken Native Americans...
If you think that is a bigoted stereotype, well, it is, but like all stereotypes it's based in some amount of truth, if you don't believe me try living next door to a reservation and get back to me, I have, and no I don't judge these people, if my grandparents upon getting off the boat were setup up to discourage assimilation into society, and all their descendants were done the same, I'd probably be in the same condition, if we were gonna fuck these people like we did we should have at least brought them into our society whether they wanted it or not, not segregated them on reservations out of guilt as we did. Go big or go home.
Louisiana, a Gulf Coast border state, makes the top 10 at #7 but that's not an illegal immigrant problem, it's a thug problem mostly with an underlying poor white trash problem, both with drugs as a big contributor.
And Florida, a Gulf Coast border state, but more important (according to some) a state with a proximity to Cuban and Haitian immigrants, makes the top #10 at #8, I don't buy that Cuban immigrants drive crime,..... Although I honestly don't have any other reasons to guess at either.
CA., TX, and AZ. are fairly well down the list being beaten out by a bunch of states with no perceived illegal immigrant problem either.
So ultimately I would say that any "cause and effect" argument for illegal immigration playing a large hand in the rankings is probably not true.
But for particular states it could be. I would guess that for INDIVIDUAL states situations, illegals might play a hand in some, just as high poverty, lack of education, poor job market or other things might cause other states to rank high even though they don't have an illegal problem.
i.e.,
Getting rid of all the illegals or solving the Native Americans sobriety and poverty problems in New Mexico (#4), might improve their situation, whereas getting rid of illegals in Delaware (#5) would not because their issue are driven by other factors such as .........? but I'm pretty sure it is not illegals.
Like Alaska, no illegals to speak of, not particularly poor, but super high violent crime because of drugs and alcohol. So I guess every state could have a different reason for being where it is....
A lot of what I have said is just my reasoning based on what I "think" I know from having lived and or traveled all over the US, that doesn't make those observations right.
