Its a fair point, and well explained. However, I think it implies that illegal immigrants are fine so long as they’re not more criminal than the general population.

Generally if somebody is using crime statistics to argue for more immigration control, they’re probably the kind of person that believes the only acceptable amount of crime for an illegal immigrant to commit is zero crime.

Maybe they had an insurance policy for if a headliner couldn’t attend? In that case definitely easier for the organisers to just cancel and claim