Immigrants and crime: New study rebuts Trump claims
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Immigrants and crime: New study rebuts Trump claims
David Knowles Mon, May 13 2:16 PM EDT U.S. cities that take in larger numbers of undocumented immigrants do not see a correlation with higher rates of violent and property crime, a new study by the Marshall Project and the New York Times has found.
The study debunks one of President Trump’s favorite talking points, that undocumented immigrants represent a criminal risk to Americans. That idea has been central to Trump’s political rise and was articulated when he announced his candidacy for president on June 16, 2015.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. they’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” Trump said.
Donald Trump announces at Trump Tower his candidacy for president of the United States. (Photo: AP)Since taking office, Trump has repeated the claim that undocumented immigrants are prone to crime and that U.S. metro areas designated as “sanctuary cities” suffer as a result.
But the new study compared recent estimates of undocumented populations in metro areas with local crime rates published by the FBI and found that a significant majority of urban areas reported decreases in violent and property crime between 2007 and 2016.
The study showed that the decreases in metro crime rates were independent of changes in the undocumented population.
The new research, while perhaps the most detailed, is just the latest to refute Trump’s claims about undocumented immigrants and crime.
A 2018 study by the Cato Institute, for example, found that in Texas, immigrants — legal or undocumented — committed fewer crimes than native-born U.S. residents. Another study across all 50 states had similar results.
A separate study published in March 2018 in the journal Criminology found that states with more undocumented immigrants have lower crime rates than those with fewer.
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Comparing crime rates is not relevant. Trump didn't say illegal aliens commit more crime than citizens or legal aliens. He said some of them commit crime. To rebut Trump's claims, they would have to show that illegal aliens don't commit crime at all. Ever.
We can't simply exile citizen criminals. We have to deal with them. But we don't have to deal with alien criminals at all if we can keep them out of the country. If you prevent even one criminal from entering the country, you prevent whatever crime they commit. There is no acceptable level of crimes we could avoid by controlling who enters the country. That's the point of what he is trying too.
Don't bother bringing logic and facts into this. They've got a straw man to attack.
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What a joke. Being here illegally is a crime in itself. Gosh that blows this leftwing puff piece to hell right there.