re: #234 wheat-dogghazi

Peeking over The Gateway Pundit, I find Gov. Rick Perry claiming that 203,000 illegals have infiltrated Texas and that they are behind 3,000 homicides and 8,000 sexual assaults since 2008.

Perry was on Hannity, apparently. I’ll leave it to our Texans here to fisk the governor’s data.

Politifact saved all of us the time and effort. Perry is full of shit:

Rick Perry claim about 3,000 homicides by illegal immigrants not supported by state figures

Our ruling

Perry told Beck over 3,000 homicides were committed “by illegal aliens over the” last six years.

This claim is unsupported by the presentation he relied on, which indicates that since 2008 in Texas, more than 200,000 arrested immigrants — foreign nationals living here with or without legal permission — had among them accumulated 3,070 homicide charges (not convictions) in their lives. Put another way, for this declaration to hold water, one would have to assume illegal immigrants committed nearly half of the state’s homicides since 2008; we found no such data.

This statement is both incorrect and ridiculous. Pants on Fire!