Posted on 08/26/2025 1:31:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The illegal immigrants who streamed into New York City over the past four years led to an increase in crime near the hotels where they were housed, according to a new academic study that lends some credence to President Trump’s claims of a Biden migrant crime surge.
William LeRoy, an incoming professor at Charles University in Prague, crunched crime report data around the hotels where the migrants were being placed. He found that arrests of Hispanics — the dominant demographic of the largely Venezuelan newcomers — rose in the immediate areas around the hotels.
The big increase came in lower-level thefts.
“The baseline increase in Hispanic arrest rates is driven primarily by cash-generating offenses, such as petit and grand larceny, indicating that economic hardship is a leading factor behind criminal behavior,” Mr. LeRoy concluded.
He said the increases seemed to be tied to the lack of job prospects for the new arrivals.
Mr. LeRoy looked at zip codes where new migrants showed up in city-funded housing, then compared that to crime reports, using Hispanics as proxies for illegal immigrants. He said there was a 5.5% increase, relative to the average, in the percentage of Hispanic arrests starting with the arrival of the first bus of migrants sent in August 2022 by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
The study lends credence to the angst New Yorkers had expressed over the migrants flooding their city under President Biden, and it challenges the assurances of immigrant-rights advocates who dismissed crime fears as unfounded.
Residents from Denver to Chicago to Boston complained of increased crime associated with the new arrivals, but New York drew outsized attention, both because of its prominent welcoming policies and the sheer number of migrants taking advantage of it.
All told, the city said it received nearly 230,000 migrants from the spring...
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The hell you say!
Them professors sure is smart. I hope he got paid well for that intensive study.
Newsflash - Abbott stops crime spree in Texas with removal of illegal aliens...Texans ecstatic
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