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January 12, 2009
Immigrants and Crime
From the Immigration Policy Center:
In an effort to provide factual analysis to recent media stories about the ongoing debate over immigration and crime, the Immigration Policy Center prepared the following fact sheet and blog post about the myth of a supposed link between immigration and crime, which has long been based on emotion rather than fact. Although study upon study over the past century has demonstrated that immigration is not associated with more crime, the "myth of immigrant criminality" persists.
From Anecdotes to Evidence: Setting the Record Straights on Immigrants and Crime
(IPC Fact Sheet, September 10, 2008)
Separating Fact From Fiction About Immigrants and Crime
(ImmigrationImpact.com Blog Post, January 12, 2009)
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For more information contact Wendy Sefsaf at 202-507-7524 or wsefsaf@ailf.org or Andrea Nill, 202-507-7520 or ipc@ailf.org
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Even ONE crime committed by an illegal alien is indefensible; if the person wasn't in the country to begin with, they couldn't commit the crime.
It's simple logic that even a 3rd-grader can understand, but for some reason it's very difficult for open-border types.
As for LEGAL immigrants causing crime, that too is indefensible. Why? Because at some point, this government made the decision to let these individuals into the country. Clearly, it was a bad decision -- no one wants to welcome more crime into their country.
The issue, then, is whether the gov't is competent when it comes to deciding who should enter the country and who should be denied. And when the people lose confidence in this, there is no support for any immigration... at least not until the gov't can get its act together either through new laws, new/more personnel, better management, the elimination of policies (the troubled visa lottery, for example), etc.
So despite what these open-border types say, there is a significant relationship between immigrants and crime.
Posted by: Jimmy | Jan 13, 2009 8:03:33 AM
Not all Immigrants come here to commit crimes or even because they've commited one and can no longer be in their country!!! Many immigrants come here to escape the unhappy life they are living in their country!!! =[
Posted by: Ashley Rios | Feb 5, 2009 3:54:15 PM
