Sorry iShop. I have to call you on this one. As a statistician, I learned a long time ago that statistics can be made to support anything you want them to. Here's another study by the Oxford World Immigration Study that contradicts what you quoted:
In the context of crime, victimization, and immigration in the United States, research shows that people are afraid of immigrants because they think immigrants are a threat to their safety and engage in many violent and property crimes. However, quantitative research has consistently shown that being foreign born is negatively associated with crime overall and is not significantly associated with committing either violent or property crime. If an undocumented immigrant is arrested for a criminal offense, it tends to be for a misdemeanor. Researchers suggest that undocumented immigrants may be less likely to engage in serious criminal offending behavior because they seek to earn money and not to draw attention to themselves. Additionally, immigrants who have access to social services are less likely to engage in crime than those who live in communities where such access is not available. In regard to victimization, immigrants are more likely to be victims of crime. Foreign-born victims of crime may not report their victimization because of fears that they will experience negative consequences if they contact the police. Recently, concern about immigration and victimization has turned to refugees who are at risk of harm from traffickers, who warehouse them, threaten them, and physically abuse them with impunity.
@iShop123 wrote:
@MFJohnston wrote:
Blanket statements that paint them as criminals are, to be very generous, unfortunate.
A criminal is someone who commits a crime. Improper Entry is a crime. Therefore...
But, beyond that, the Center for Immigration Studies (a pro-immigrant group) has detailed statistics showing that there is indeed a higher rate of crime and incarceration among non-citizens. The overwhelming majority of the violent crimes are in border communities. They attribute it to overall youthful age rather than immigration status. They could be right, but it makes no difference. More importantly than the crime rate, imho, is the rate of taxpayer services -- more than half of legal and illegal immigrants use some form of welfare. Even though illegal immigrants are barred, there are ways around it.
I don't have a big problem with someone who wants to come here, work, pay taxes, and assimilate into society. I do have an issue with those who simply want to leech off those who are forced to support them.
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