Where is Trump’s program for victims of crimes committed by US citizens?

Kudos to Jeff Jacoby for exposing the untruths about the supposedly extensive crimes that undocumented immigrants commit (“The malicious fiction of the ‘criminal alien,’ ’’ Opinion, March 8). In his address to Congress last month, President Trump documented a few criminal actions by immigrants to support his claim that the vastness of the problem warranted creation of the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement program, or VOICE. But isn’t it ironic that he hasn’t proposed the same type of program for victims of the millions of crimes committed by American citizens?

Eva Travers

Cambridge

Even one crime committed by an illegal immigrant is measurable — to victim

“Immigration doesn’t increase crime,’’ writes Jeff Jacoby, “it reduces it.’’ Wrong. If only one illegal immigrant breaks the law, that’s one more crime on American soil than would have occurred otherwise.

To be mathematically (as well as politically) correct, Jacoby needed to specify “crime rate,’’ which presupposes a denominator. A rate allows anyone who is interested to calculate how many law-abiding immigrants enter the country for each bad apple.

I’m guessing the families who fall victim to violence because of our porous borders don’t spend a lot of time crunching those numbers.

Michael Smith

Cynthiana, Ky.

Those here illegally have every reason to behave lawfully

Jeff Jacoby’s critique of the myth of immigrant crime was spot-on. One thing he left out was that illegal immigrants would probably want to keep a low profile, and so they would try to avoid things that might bring them to the attention of law enforcement.

Steven Brooks

Whitman