Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants here illegally commit more crime

States with larger shares of undocumented immigrants tended to have lower crime rates than states with smaller shares in the years 1990 through 2014. "Increases in the undocumented immigrant population within states are associated with significant decreases in the prevalence of violence," authors Michael T. Light and Ty Miller found.

That's just a simple correlation, of course, and it's well documented that many factors beyond immigration can affect the crime rate. So Light and Miller ran a number of statistical analyses to more clearly isolate the effects of illegal immigration from those other factors. Among other things, they find that the relationship between high levels of illegal immigration and low levels of crime persists even after controlling for various economic and demographic factors such as age, urbanization, labor market conditions and incarceration rates.

All told, Light and Miller sliced the data 57 ways to see whether there was anything they missed, but not one of their analyses showed any positive relationship between illegal immigration and crime. They concluded that not only does illegal immigration not increase crime, but it may actually contribute to the drop in overall crime rates observed in the United States in recent decades.


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like the First Lady.

as the general population. And that OVER HALF of our agricultural workers are undocumented, so we would literally starve without them.

to find out exactly how they got here and stayed here illegally working for TRUMP.

Anyone have a take on them?

And provides a link to her saying it on video.

The quote is accurate. The context is helpful. Presumably most people know what she was referencing. Trump is an idiot. He tries to paint her as being supportive of the wall and supportive of open borders at the same time. Makes no sense.

When you can't produce facts, lie your ass off, and claim anything for the weak fools to believe.

So Trump said a wall will stop 99% of our border crossings, he is cracking, he always says 100%, guaranteed.

then they go back home
It is the ones that come to work for companies that are breaking the law by hiring them. Why don't we solve that problem first? And set up a work visa program so we can get workers for the new Green Deal, we will need them. We already need them but let's make them legit, organized and controlled.