..But what about Trumps contention that Mexico is sending us criminals and rapists? In fact, the very opposite is true. Mexican immigrants, legal and illegal, like all immigrants, have lower rates of criminal behavior than the native born...
...As for incarceration rates, immigrant men ages 18 to 39 are less than half as likely to be incarcerated than native-born men the same age, according to the Ewing study.
Mexican men are even less likely to be incarcerated: Their rates are one-third that of natives with similar demographic characteristics.
And Salvadoran and Guatemalan men are incarcerated at one-fifth the rate of native-born men without a high school degree the group most likely to commit violent crimes....
Thank you, Milton. I will remember that.
Have a great weekend. I appreciate it.