John Lott writes about Undocumented Immigrants using hard data from Arizona and the numbers do not lie. From SSRN:
Undocumented Immigrants, U.S. Citizens, and Convicted Criminals in Arizona
Using newly released detailed data on all prisoners who entered the Arizona state prison from January 1985 through June 2017, we are able to separate non-U.S. citizens by whether they are illegal or legal residents. Unlike other studies, these data do not rely on self-reporting of criminal backgrounds. Undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes and serve 10.5% longer sentences, more likely to be classified as dangerous, and 45% more likely to be gang members than U.S. citizens. Yet, there are several reasons that these numbers are likely to underestimate the share of crime committed by undocumented immigrants. There are dramatic differences between in the criminal histories of convicts who are U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants.
Young convicts are especially likely to be undocumented immigrants. While undocumented immigrants from 15 to 35 years of age make up slightly over two percent of the Arizona population, they make up about eight percent of the prison population. Even after adjusting for the fact that young people commit crime at higher rates, young undocumented immigrants commit crime at twice the rate of young U.S. citizens. These undocumented immigrants also tend to commit more serious crimes.
John's website is here: JOHN LOTT'S WEBSITE
And here are a couple of news items involving illegal immigrants committing crime in the USA
- Jury convicts former Mexican officer of sexually assaulting Aurora woman
- Mom drove with $10 million worth of heroin while baby was in backseat, police say
- 67-year-old charged with sex offense involving child
- Border Patrol seize $82K worth of meth
- Uber driver suspected of San Luis Obispo rapes charged with 10 felonies
- Man Charged With Posting Indecent Images On Social Media
- Man punched in face over parking spot
- Man charged with DWI after deadly I-40 crash in Raleigh
- Five of six men indicted in metro Denver heroin-ring bust are in the U.S. illegally
- Illegal Immigrant Accused of Giving 7-Year-Old Herpes
- Illegal immigrant accused of stabbing stranger in neck at California market had been deported seven times
- Report: ‘Dreamer’-age Illegals Have Crime Rate Double Young Americans
Best and brightest - yeah...
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