Under Trump, sanctuary cities and states come under fire over immigration policies
Under Trump, sanctuary cities and states come under fire over immigration policies
- September 14, 2025
- Charis Kubrin, CPIP and criminology, law and society, Sept. 14, 2025
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However, research shows that sanctuary status doesn’t cause higher crime, said Charis Kubrin, a professor of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine, who has extensively studied the impact of immigration on crime and written a book on the issue. “Immigrants actually have lower involvement than the native born on an array of crime measures,” she said.
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