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New Study: The impact of illegal aliens on crime rates

By John R. Lott Jr. and Blunt Force Truth News

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John R. Lott Jr. and the Crime Prevention Research Center reveal their most recent research. The New research analyzes the unique and recent data on crime rates, by illegal aliens. The data has detailed information on every person entering the Arizona prison system, for more than the past 32 years. Even better, the data differentiates between legal and illegal immigrants.

The evidence on crime rates by illegal aliens, specifically younger illegal immigrants, is astounding.

From Mr. Lott’s abstract:

Using newly released detailed data on all prisoners who entered the Arizona state prison from January 1985 through June 2017, we are able to separate non-U.S. citizens by whether they are illegal or legal residents. This data does not rely on self-reporting by criminals. Undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes and serve 10.5% longer sentences, more likely to be classified as dangerous, and 45% more likely to be gang members than U.S. citizens. Yet, there are several reasons that these numbers are likely to underestimate the share of crime committed by undocumented immigrants. There are dramatic differences between in the criminal histories of convicts who are U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants.

Young convicts are especially likely to be undocumented immigrants. While undocumented immigrants from 15 to 35 years of age make up about 0.81% of the Arizona population, they make up almost 8% of the prison population. Even after adjusting for the fact that young people commit crime at higher rates, young undocumented immigrants commit crime at twice the rate of young U.S. citizens. These undocumented immigrants also tend to commit more serious crimes.

If undocumented immigrants committed crime nationally as they do in Arizona, in 2016 they would have been responsible for over 1,000 more murders, 5,200 rapes, 8,900 robberies, 25,300 aggravated assaults, and 26,900 burglaries.

See Mr. Lott’s full study here and the shocking numbers of his latest work

January 12, 2018

Link: https://crimeresearch.org/2018/01/impact-illegal-aliens-crime-rates/



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