The stat is for all foreign born persons legal or illegal that is what is meant by immigrant in regards to the incarceration rate the study is here http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/Imm%20Criminality%20(IPC).pdf I would recommend Jason Riley’s “Let Them in: the Case for Open Borders.” The strongest case is the economic one and its one that the Wall Street Journal (who Riley is a member of) have been promoting for a long time, However many are against immigration because they think they will change the cultural dynamic of America. The most famous person to make this argument was Samuel Huntington the Harvard political scientist in his book Who Are We. However, there is a large amount of literature that refutes that the most notable being “Testing Huntington: Is Hispanic Immigration a Threat to American Identity?” http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/perspectivesmar07citrin_etal.pdf A lot of people have the idea that they do not assimilate or that they are a drain on welfare or the economy and this article citing studies from several different organizations like PEW, CBO, Fiscal Policy Center, Immigration Policy Center, Gallup, Bureau of Justice Statistics, American Action Forum, Bipartisan Policy Center, CDC, U.S. Census Bureau, Center of Budget and Policy Priorities, Partnership for a New American Economy as well as other studies, most of them are hyperlinked in the article so you can look them up.
So you are for immigration ‘reform’, otherwise known as the Perpetual Democratic Control of Government Act? Get lost.
You mean the case where a half-million H1-B visa holders came in during the 2002 IT slump? Or the case where meatpacker wages sank dramatically due to hiring of illegals?
Of course corporatist shills at the WSJ like it. Working Americans should not.
” The strongest case is the economic one”
That’s why the dems insist it is an emergency that we must extend unemployment benefits for another 99 weeks!
The economy is SO great, that we don’t “need” to do that, right?
The premise is false.
Enforce our borders, enforce immigration laws, stop spitting in the faces of those who came here legally and naturalized.
Think tanks and Harvard and politicians are the last people to ask about real life.
“A lot of people think” is likely much more accurate
Why is it that the organizations listed are primarily lefty in nature?