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College Rape

Are college-age women who are enrolled in college more likely to say they were raped than college-age women who are not enrolled in college?

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College-age women who are not enrolled in college are about 50% more likely to say they were raped than women who are enrolled in college. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice published a study of rapes and sexual assaults of college-age females during 1995 to 2013. It found that during each year, an average of 0.2% of women enrolled in a college, university, trade school, or vocational school said they were raped. For college-age women not enrolled in school, the rate was 0.3%, or 50% higher than those who were enrolled. This study was based on data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, which is a nationally representative scientific survey of about 90,000 households and 160,000 people twice per year. Respondents are first interviewed in person and then via phone every 6 months for 3.5 years.

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Lives Saved by ICE

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims that ICE has “killed far more of our neighbors than they could ever have claimed to save.”

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IN FACT, the polar opposite is true, and the number of lives saved by ICE would be even greater were it not for sanctuary politicians like Mamdani. Here are the specifics:

The core mission of ICE is “protecting the American public by investigating, disrupting and dismantling criminal threats and enforcing our immigration laws.”
ICE was formed in 2003 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in which 19 Muslim aliens living in the U.S. killed 2,977 people.
From 2008 to 2024, ICE removed an average of 134,708 convicted criminal aliens per year from the U.S.
The vast bulk of murderers have prior criminal records, which warrant immediate deportation hearings.
Due to lax immigration enforcement and sanctuary policies that shield criminal aliens from ICE, non-citizens have murdered an average of at least 600 people per year in the U.S. for decades.
The Biden administration reported in 2024 that “662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories” were in the U.S. and known to ICE, including 13,376 aliens convicted of homicide and another 1,896 currently charged with homicide.”
In 2014, the Obama administration “released from its custody 30,558 criminal aliens with a total of 79,059 convictions instead of deporting them.”
From October 1, 2009 to July 21, 2015, the Obama administration released 124 criminal aliens who were later charged with murder-related crimes committed in the U.S. after their release and before February 2016.
In 2019, ICE issued 7,526 detainers in New York City for non-citizens with criminal histories that included “more than 3,500 assaults, 1,500 DUIs, 1,000 sex crimes, 1,000 weapon offenses, 500 robberies, and 200 homicide offenses,” but the city only honored 25 of these detainers and let the rest of the criminals go free.
During the second Trump administration, New York municipalities have flouted 16,070 ICE detainers for aliens with 52,503 criminal charges or convictions, including 2,198 weapons offenses, 1,776 robberies, 1,631 burglaries, 1,561 DUIs, 1,017 sex offenses, 132 kidnappings, and 131 homicides.
In contrast to the thousands of murders committed by aliens and untold more that were prevented by removing more than a million of them who were convicted of crimes, federal immigration officials have killed a total of nine people during the second Trump administration, including justifiable homicides like when a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot an alien who had stabbed another agent.
Likewise, the age-comparable fatality rate of ICE detainees during the second Trump administration is one-fifth that of the general U.S. population, and the vast bulk of detainee deaths involve natural causes among people with significant prior health problems who received medical care from ICE.

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