Fact check: Steve King says valedictorians and drug smugglers could be legalized
Fact check: Steve King says valedictorians and drug smugglers could be legalized
- July 25, 2013
- Research by Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is featured by ABC News July 25, 2013
From ABC News:
Rep. Steve King isn't backing away from his inflammatory comments about young undocumented
immigrants, asserting that for every valedictorian there are 100 drug smugglers. …Beyond
King's anecdotes, there's very little data for crime rates among undocumented youth
specifically. And the information that does exist shows no link between increased
immigration – legal and illegal – and crime. FBI data compiled from the by the Immigration
Policy Center (IPC), a pro-immigration group, shows that crime in the U.S. decreased
as immigration increased between 1990 and 2010. And incarceration rates among young
men (ages 18-39) are five times lower for immigrants compared to native-born men,
according to a 2007 University of California, Irvine study cited by the IPC.
For the full story, please visit http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/fact-check-steve-king-valed....
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