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Crime
Immigrants commit less crime than native citizens
- FEE: Nowrasteh 15
- Census Data
- In 2010, 10.7 percent of native-born men aged 18-39 without a high school degree were incarcerated compared to 2.8 percent of Mexican immigrants and 1.7 percent of Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants.
- “The disparity in incarceration rates has existed for decades… incarceration rates of the native-born were anywhere from two to five times higher than that of immigrants.”
- Macro-Analysis
- 159 cities at three dates between 1980 and 2000: crime rates and levels of immigration are not correlated (Ousey and Kubrin)
- 111 US cities with populations of at least 5,000 Hispanics and found no statistically significant findings. (Martinez 2008)
- 150 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and found that levels of recent immigration had a statistically significant downward effect on homicide rates but no effect on property crime rates. (Reid et al. 2005)
- Census Data
- American Immigration Council: Ewing et al. 15
- The violent crime rate declined by 48% and the property crime rate by 41% during the period of 1990 to 2013, while the undocumented population more than tripled from 3.5 million to 11.2 million.
- Correlation =/= causation, but the seemingly negative relationship between immigration and crime certainly suggests that, at the very least, more immigrants will likely not bring an onslaught of crime
See also
While immigrants may not cause disproportionate violence, the Hate Crime subsection includes data on how anti-immigration rhetoric can have extensive negative consequences.