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Originally Posted by nihilist
as uncovered in the report "crime, corrections, and california: what does immigration have to do with it?" by the public policy institute of california.
key findings:
u.s.-born men are jailed in state prisons at a rate more than three times higher than foreign-born men, and they are 10 times more likely to land behind bars!
male mexican nationals ages 18 to 40 -- those more likely to have entered the country illegally -- are more than eight times less likely than their u.s.-born counterparts to be imprisoned!
from 2000 to 2005, cities in which large proportions of the state's immigrant population called home experienced crime dips far greater than cities with smaller immigrant populations.
good to see those old myths finally dispelled.
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My brother's in law enforcement, and when I mentioned this to him he made a good point:
Do you know how hard it is to catch a criminal who has no SS#, no listed address, no listed phone number, no known employer...of course there are fewer illegal immigrants behind bars: It's really damned hard to FIND them. By nature, any cop poking around a neighborhood of illegal immigrants asking questions is going to get squat, because whether the neighbors like the fugitive or not, they don't want law enforcement asking them too many questions, so they won't say a thing.
Asking neighbors, witnesses, families, etc. is the #1 method of tracking down a suspect, and when you're dealing with illegals, those avenues are all but closed to you. And you can't put them in prison if you can't catch them.
You also can't include them in crime statistics if you can't catch them, so any data will be skewed by the absence of information.
How many crime victims can include in their description the fact that the assailant
looked like an illegal immigrant? None. So, those facts never make it into the statistics accurately, and will never be reported accurately...but you can bet they'll still parade the statistics as if they reflected reality.
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