Study: Immigrants less likely to commit crime than US-born — Rockridge Nation

Study: Immigrants less likely to commit crime than US-born

Created by glacier on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 02:46 PM
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A study by the Public Policy Institute of California, a non-partisan policy research organization, finds that immigrants and their children are much less likely to commit crime than the US-born, concluding that "spending additional dollars to reduce immigration or to increase enforcement against the foreign-born will not have a high return in terms of public safety. The foreign-born in California already have extremely low rates of criminal activity."

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Great Study

collapse Posted by eric_at_rockridge (Rockridge Institute staff member) at Tuesday, February 26, 2008 03:39 PM

Thank you for pointing out this study. It gives the lie to the border wall security scare tactics. I will reference it in my upcoming paper on the immigration debate.

Eric Haas

Link of this study on my site

collapse Posted by zeitgeist1979 at Saturday, March 29, 2008 01:58 PM

I have posted this on my site, which I have created to promote the use of the term "Economic Refugee." Please go to: www.myspace.com/economicrefugee

Thank you.
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