Posted on 01/16/2018 7:39:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Younger illegal immigrants in Arizona make up a far larger percentage of the state’s prison inmates than their share of the population would suggest, according to a new analysis.
While illegal immigrants ages 18 to 35 — a group immigration activists call “Dreamers” — are about 2 percent of of the Arizona population, they are almost 8 percent of the prison population. The over-representation by a factor of four shows that younger illegal immigrants in Arizona are far more likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens or legal immigrants of a similar age, says John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
“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,” Lott wrote in a report published Thursday. “These undocumented immigrants also tend to commit more serious crimes.”
Lott’s analysis uses data from the Arizona Department of Corrections, which identifies inmates by citizenship and immigration status. It compiles conviction data from 1985 through 2017, using criminal convictions as a proxy for criminality. That metric may actually understate the propensity for criminal behavior among illegal immigrants, because their victims, often illegal immigrants themselves, are less likely to report crime.
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Arizona needs to stop being racist by sending people to prison for committing serious crimes and stuff.
Gosh, I thought they were all hardworking college students. /s
Doing the job Americans won’t do: Committing felonies.
NO AMNESTY!!!!!!! We are not defeated yet!!
But they are the smartest, most hardworking inmates.
Harvard or MIT, right?
What exactly were they dreaming about?
Gee, that’s inconvenient statistic for those that think these illegal aliens are little angels.
Murdering you, stealing your stuff, killing policemen, rapping women and children.
Goddam Democrats...
Putting our citizens ....our friends and families in danger each and every day. Disgusted
And Medal of Honor winners!
Wait I thought all the dreamers were in college. :-)
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