Immigrants - illegal and legal - don't have higher crime rates

By Edward Barrera on February 26, 2007 6:07 PM | |

"The problem of crime in the United States is not “caused” or even aggravated by immigrants, regardless of their legal status," according to the Immigrant Policy Center. Breaking the law by illegally entering is not part of the study's equation, incarceration rates are. I haven't read the study yet, but will.

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