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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
It’s an article of faith in some corners of politics and the media: All those undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border are making crime much worse in the United States.
But new research gives the lie to that assertion. And, some border officials say, continuing to promote it will only lead to another racist massacre like the one that occurred in El Paso two years ago today.
The notion that undocumented immigrants bring crime has a healthy pedigree.
Former President Donald Trump in 2015 said, “They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
Referring to “the staggering number” of “perpetrators of state and federal crimes,” the governors of Texas and Arizona in June appealed to all other states to send their cops to the border to help. Their counterparts in Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska complied. Ohio’s state troopers, at least, are still in Texas.
One problem, though: Peer-reviewed, largely overlooked research published in December shows that undocumented immigrants in Texas likely aren’t part of a crime wave. In fact, they’re much less likely to be arrested for serious crimes than are people born in the United States.
Between 2012 and 2018, U.S.-born people were twice as likely as the undocumented to be arrested for violent crime in Texas and two-and-a-half times as likely to be arrested for drug crimes.
That might show that undocumented immigrants are more concerned with the consequences of arrest than they are motivated to steal, Light said.
“They may be thinking, ‘I’m going to get deported if I have run-ins with the law,”
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/0...tent&eId=d86994ea-ea44-4e8b-9cfc-d701361f864a
But new research gives the lie to that assertion. And, some border officials say, continuing to promote it will only lead to another racist massacre like the one that occurred in El Paso two years ago today.
The notion that undocumented immigrants bring crime has a healthy pedigree.
Former President Donald Trump in 2015 said, “They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
Referring to “the staggering number” of “perpetrators of state and federal crimes,” the governors of Texas and Arizona in June appealed to all other states to send their cops to the border to help. Their counterparts in Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska complied. Ohio’s state troopers, at least, are still in Texas.
One problem, though: Peer-reviewed, largely overlooked research published in December shows that undocumented immigrants in Texas likely aren’t part of a crime wave. In fact, they’re much less likely to be arrested for serious crimes than are people born in the United States.
Between 2012 and 2018, U.S.-born people were twice as likely as the undocumented to be arrested for violent crime in Texas and two-and-a-half times as likely to be arrested for drug crimes.
That might show that undocumented immigrants are more concerned with the consequences of arrest than they are motivated to steal, Light said.
“They may be thinking, ‘I’m going to get deported if I have run-ins with the law,”
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/0...tent&eId=d86994ea-ea44-4e8b-9cfc-d701361f864a