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<p>As fearmongers depict the southern border as a region made lawless by invading hordes, Police Chief Victor Rodriguez of McAllen, Texas, has presided over a 12th straight year of crime reduction.</p>
<p>“We’re working on the 13th,” he told The Daily Beast on Friday.</p>
<p>In fact, crime in his border city of 145,000 is at the lowest level going back to 1985 when stats began to be accurately recorded.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/border-crime-wave-is-just-a-right-wing-fantasy?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html --> Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP
As fearmongers depict the southern border as a region made lawless by invading hordes, Police Chief Victor Rodriguez of McAllen, Texas, has presided over a 12th straight year of crime reduction.
“We’re working on the 13th,” he told The Daily Beast on Friday.
In fact, crime in his border city of 145,000 is at the lowest level going back to 1985 when stats began to be accurately recorded.