Is fear of immigrant criminals overblown?

Is fear of immigrant criminals overblown?
- July 15, 2013
- Research by Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is featured by ABC News, July 15, 2013
From ABC News:
Stories like these are what led Maria Espinoza to start The Remembrance Project,
a group dedicated to honoring Americans who have been killed by undocumented immigrants.
She's in Washington, D.C., this week, showing her opposition to immigration reform
and to the idea of undocumented immigrants could become citizens…Immigrants are also
far less likely to be in prison than the native-born. A 2007 study by sociologist
Rubén G. Rumbaut looked at incarceration rates among men ages 18 to 39, who make up
the bulk of the prison population. Rumbaut found that 3.5 percent of native-born men
were in prison in 2000, compared to 0.7 percent of immigrant men. [Rubén G. Rumbaut
is a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine.]
For the full story, please visit http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/fact-check-fear-immigrant-c....
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