Immigrants commit crimes less than US citizens.?
The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation: Incarceration Rates among Native and Foreign-Born Men: by Ruben G. Rumbaut, Ph.D. and Walter A. Ewing, Ph.D.
Because many immigrants to the United States, especially Mexicans and Central Americans, are young men who arrive with very low levels of formal education, popular stereotypes tend to associate them with higher rates of crime and
incarceration. However, data from the census and other sources show that for every ethnic group without exception, incarceration rates among young men are lowest for immigrants. This holds true especially for the Mexicans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans who make up the bulk of the undocumented population. The problem of crime in the United States is not "caused" or even aggravated by immigrants. Among men age 18-39, the 3.5 percent incarration rate of the native-born in 2000 was 5 times higher than the 0.7 percent incarceration rate of the foreign-born.
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Thanks for posting this. But truth is, people listen to what they WANT to listen and usually it is the stereotypes. It's nice to see the real facts get laid out.
Lot more citizens than illegals...bet by percentage, the illegals win
Move to to Bakersfield Ca. Then tell me you're pathetic attempt to rationalize that.
thats because they don't want to get thrown out of the US
illegal immigration proponents is that those who enter the U.S. by breaking the law are invariably "hard-working" and "law-abiding" once they get here.
1. That argument, however, has one major flaw. According to Justice Department statistics and the analysis of immigration experts, the "law-abiding" claim often isn't true.
As Investors Business Daily reported in March 2005:
"The U.S. Justice Department estimated that 270,000 illegal immigrants served jail time nationally in 2003. Of those, 108,000 were in California. Some estimates show illegals now make up half of California's prison population, creating a massive criminal subculture that strains state budgets and creates a nightmare for local police forces."
Citing an Urban Institute study, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies Steven Camorata noted in 2004: "Roughly 17 percent of the prison population at the federal level are illegal aliens. That's a huge number since illegal aliens only account for about 3 percent of the total population."
1. Former California Gov. Pete Wilson places the percentage of illegal aliens in U.S. prisons even higher. In 2001, he told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly:
"We had problems related to the costs of educating children who were acknowledged to be in the country illegally, healthcare costs. One in five in our prison population were illegal immigrants who had been convicted of a felony after entering the country illegally."
The Federation for American Immigration Reform also turned to the Justice Department to get statistics on criminal aliens. They report:
"In March 2000, Congress made public Department of Justice statistics showing that, over the previous five years, the INS had released over 35,000 criminal aliens instead of deporting them. Over 11,000 of those released went on to commit serious crimes, over 1,800 of which were violent ones [including 98 homicides, 142 sexual assaults, and 44 kidnaping].
"In 2001, thanks to a decision by the Supreme Court, the INS was forced to release into our society over 3,000 criminal aliens [who collectively had been convicted of 125 homicides, 387 sex offenses, and 772 assault charges]."
1. Up to a third of the U.S. federal prison population is composed of non-citizens, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics - but not all non-citizen prison inmates are illegal aliens.
As to the "hard-working" claim, CIS notes: "The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 24.5 percent compared to 16.3 percent for native households."
Investor's Business Daily concurs: "Once [illegals] get here, they are 50 percent more likely to be on welfare than citizens."
Illegal immagrants are perpetually breaking the law just by being here.
There are more criminals who are ILLEGAL!!!
yes Americans commit crimes also. but why do we need illegals coming here and committing more crimes for the American people to pay for?
What have you been smoking?????
Why is it that so many immigrants , especially illegals are in the jails and prisons?
You can show reports of whatever, but when a people such as you stated like mexicans salvadorans guatemalans represent about 14% of the population... so why is it that they comprise 25% or more of the jail and prison population?
About 80,000 illegal criminal aliens, including convicted murderers, rapists, drug dealers and child molesters who served prison time and were released, are loose on the streets of America, hiding from federal immigration authorities.
Despite the creation of a new agency to hunt down criminal aliens and the infusion of millions of dollars to get the job done, many state and local police agencies who make contact with the aliens either never learn of their immigration status or never advise the federal government of their release.
According to figures for 2002 from the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), more than 375,000 known illegal aliens have been ordered deported, but have disappeared pending immigration hearings. Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was one such alien.
About 80,000 of those people, called "absconders," already had been convicted and served prison time for felonies, ICE and INS say.
"Keeping our law-enforcement officers in the dark doesn't make America's streets safer for anyone," said Rep. Charlie Norwood, Georgia Republican. "At a time when our officers are faced with arresting and re-arresting the same 80,000 criminal aliens over and over again, we should be giving them greater access to data and more resources."
Making matters more difficult for federal authorities are several municipalities that have passed ordinances prohibiting their employees, including police officers, from enforcing federal immigration laws.
Known as "sanctuary laws," the ordinances are in place in varying degree in major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston.
Immigration opponents argue that the laws encourage illegal immigration. Some, including the District-based Federation of American Immigration Reform, have charged that sanctuary laws offer shelter for would-be terrorists by allowing illegal immigrants to establish themselves as residents.
The Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement (FILE), also based in the District, has begun to bring lawsuits against those municipalities with sanctuary ordinances and has promised additional legal challenges.
FILE has argued that state and county governments are prohibited from adopting policies that prevent its employees from contacting federal immigration authorities about the legal status of any noncitizen or to report violations of U.S. immigration law by any noncitizen.
"These policies, called 'sanctuary policies,' promise foreign nationals who have broken our laws that the municipality in which they live will help them in their lawbreaking by resisting efforts to report them to the proper authorities," FILE said in a statement.
"Such policies are illegal, naturally, and have been rejected by the courts. Nevertheless, some cities, remarkably, persist in maintaining their illegal sanctuary policies," FILE said. "Unfortunately, the executive branch of the federal government has been for many years utterly derelict in forcing, as is its duty, municipalities to abide by the law."
The National Council of La Raza has defended sanctuary laws, saying that collaboration between federal authorities and state and local municipalities is contrary to U.S. case law and that it results in racial profiling, police misconduct and civil rights violations.
La Raza also charges that it undermines community policing efforts and that it undercuts effective law-enforcement and antiterrorism efforts by diverting resources and leading to additional litigation.
Mr. Norwood has introduced the Clear Law Enforcement for Alien Removal Act that would, among other things, give state and local police agencies authority to enforce immigration laws.
The pending bill, with 112 co-sponsors of both parties, also would grant state and local police agencies access to the National Criminal Information Center (NCIC) database for immigration status information.
Last month, several pro-immigration and civil rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit to stop the government from entering immigration information into NCIC, saying the data was being misused in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
Filed in U.S. District Court in New York, the suit said the Justice Department unlawfully entered immigration information into NCIC subjecting immigrants to the risk of unlawful arrest by state and local police.
The suit also questioned the authority of Attorney General John Ashcroft to enlist state and local police in the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
The suit was filed by La Raza, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Latin American Workers Project, New York Immigration Coalition, and Union of Needletrades and Industrial and Textile Employees.
The NCIC database — which includes more than 40 million felons, fugitives and others being sought by federal law enforcement — was expanded after the September 11 attacks to include immigrant criminals who failed to show up for their deportation hearings.
It also includes thousands of immigrants who registered with the government under the "special registration" program, which requires that foreign visitors from designated countries register when they enter the United States. NCIC is used by 80,000 law-enforcement agencies across the country.
Assistant Secretary Michael J. Garcia, who heads ICE, the investigative arm of Homeland Security, has promised a vigorous enforcement effort for criminal aliens now in the country, including a $10 million effort to fund eight new teams of agents to apprehend and deport aliens convicted of crimes in the United States.
The new teams, which join eight already in operation, will be based in Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Texas and Washington state.
The study said immigrant, not ILLEGAL immigrant.
For whatever reason - your links do not work with this comment, "The file you requested was not found on this Web site."
Since I can't see your supposed supporting evidence - might I point you to the shear numbers of the people within the jail system that are indeed "Mexican, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan" along with several other south American country nationals within the American prison system.
PBS did a show about it not all that long ago. Newspapers have covered it. Strange that you somehow missed it - but found a link - that doesn't work - but that you want to suggest supports your suggestion.
Yeah, on the sex offender registry for my county I found over 100 Black & White men and even a few White women. I found 2 Hispanics. People just like to assume things without educating themselves first. The Hispanics are just the latest politically correct scapegoats for whatever is going wrong in our nation today. I had someone answer one of my questions who blamed deforestation and the loss of many of our native plants & animals on the influx of illegals. Sorry, but I'm still laughing about that one!
Awesome thanx for spreading this education. Props to you!
Yeah right! Our prisons are full of illegals and those are just the ones who got caught!! If every wet that crossed was caught??? Do the math!!!
You are so wrong!
I don't believe that article for a second. When you live in a county that has one of the lowest crime rates in the country, you would know what I'm talking about. Ten years ago, there was maybe on average one murder every 15 years and a few burglaries a year. Immigration picked up speed and now there are murders all over the place, drug dealers everywhere, burglaries aren't uncommon, etc. To try to tell me that immigrants have nothing to do with crimes is a waste of time because I know for a fact that they're a heck of a lot more dangerous than citizens. I don't need some scientist to tell me different because I've seen all the proof I need.
So your question if what?
I would believe illegals commit less crimes overall. Because if they bring attention to themselves its 'back to the boat for you'.
Yes these facts are correct.
How can you rely upon a study that purports to draw a conclusion about members of the "undocumented population" from analyzing, of all things, census data? The answer is you can't.
Not everything that calls itself a "scientific study" is reliable or factual. Personal and political agendas abound. Just cuz it's in print don't make it so!
Oh, and the links don't work... for me, anyway.
i dont think this is very specific. wat about illegal immigrants? and citizens include black, white, asian, middle eastern. pretty much everybody. immigrants can be african asian or middle eastern also.
for most illegal immigrants the only crime they commit is crossing a border,, yes u are right,,if u check the facts, there are more Americans (native born) in prison, than there are immigrants,,, but of course even with links and facts starring people in the face, they will not except the truth as the truth,,, what i found ironic is how many Americans in this forum say that Mexicans commit crimes that Americans wouldn't,, that is bull $hit,,,, if you look on the registry of sex offenders,, almost all of them are middle aged or older white and black men,, seems to me that in that case Americans are committing crimes that Mexicans don't,, I'm not saying that Mexicans don't commit that crimes and that they havent been arrested for it, because every race flaws,, all I'm saying is that i looked at over 1000 photos, and i only saw 2-3 Hispanics,,, although i am glad u posted this question, its sad that most people still wont know the truth,, it is just way to convenient for Americans to blame someone else,, its what we've always done,,,,
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