Criminal immigrants?
Criminal immigrants?
- September 7, 2014
- Research by Rubén Rumbaut, sociology professor, is featured in Reason.com September 7, 2014
From Reason.com:
Do immigrants commit more than their share of crimes? Most Americans think so. ...
The criminality of newcomers to America's shores is a sticking point in the immigration
debate, one that anti-immigrant think tanks such as the Center for Immigration Studies
and the Federation for American Immigration Reform often return to. Just one problem:
It's not real. In fact, most research, such as a 2008 report by University of California
sociologist Ruben Rumbaut for the Police Foundation National Conference, finds that
immigrants, including undocumented ones, are less prone to crime than are native-born
Americans. Rumbaut finds that the incarceration rate of American-born males between
18 and 39 years of age was five times the rate of foreign-born males, and finds similar
conclusions in a survey of other studies on the topic.
For the full story, please visit http://reason.com/archives/2014/09/07/criminal-immigrants.
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