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Immigrants or Americans: who more often commits crimes

Arrest of an illegal immigrant from Mexico for killing a 20 year old student College in Iowa, which shook the whole of America, once again sparked debate about the dangers of illegal immigration.

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Many politicians, including President Donald Trump, claim that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes or terrorist acts than Americans born in the United States, but do not provide data supporting this assumption, writes USA Today.

At the same time, immigration experts, including academic researchers, state that all available national crime statistics show that immigrants commit fewer, not more, crimes than those born in the United States.

Therefore, even opponents of increased immigration have no evidence linking immigrants with higher crime rates.

“There is data going back 100 years from a variety of sources, and it all points in the same direction,” said Walter Ewing, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council.

Ewing and other researchers recognize that assessing the level of crime among immigrants has always been a difficult task, because it is difficult to find complete statistics. The local police do not indicate in the reports the immigration status of the arrested, that is, it is impossible to determine exactly how many crimes legal immigrants, illegal immigrants and Americans born in the USA commit.

Immigration researchers have been trying to solve this problem for decades.

One method to address this problem is to use prison data to determine the immigration status of convicted criminals. Foreigners make up just over 13% of the US population, but the Department of Justice released a report in January 2018 that found that only 5,6% of inmates in federal and local prisons are foreign-born.

The libertarian institute of Cato also concluded that the incarceration rate of US-born Americans is 1,53% compared to 0,85% illegal immigrants and 0,47% legal immigrants. When the Cato Institute removed from the list of people serving sentences solely for immigration violations, the level of imprisonment among illegal immigrants fell to 0,5%.

Ewing used a different approach to explore the links between immigration and crime. From 1990 to 2013, both legal and illegal immigrants came to the United States. The percentage of the US foreign population has increased from 7,1 to 13,1%. However, during this period, the level of violent crime fell by 48% across the country.

In 2014, a team of university professors used a different approach to research. They reviewed data on juveniles convicted of crimes in Arizona and Pennsylvania. The study found that young, US-born Americans are more likely to commit crimes and are more prone to re-offending than underage immigrants.

Statistics from the Department of Homeland Security suggests a different approach to investigating this issue. About 800 000 illegal immigrants were brought to the United States by children and received protection from deportation under the DACA program.

DACA members are required to have no criminal record in order to be eligible to remain in the program. Six years after the launch of the program, only 2 127 people (0,27% of the total) were excluded from it for committing crimes.

Jessica Vaughan from the Center for Immigration Research says that each of these approaches has significant drawbacks. For example, she said that the number of immigrants in US prisons can be low because some immigrant offenders are deported or avoided punishment, receiving protection in "shelter cities".

The Vaughan team investigated the issue of immigrant crime for many years and concluded that it is impossible to determine whether immigrants commit crimes more often than Americans born in the United States, since it is impossible to derive effective terminology for this.

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