Research Shows ICE Raids Are Killing Local Economies

Contrary to the “worst of the worst” posturing presented by the Trump administration, it’s long been known that immigrants (both legal or otherwise) commit fewer crimes than natural-born US citizens: Our consistent finding is that legal immigrants have the lowest incarceration rates, followed by illegal immigrants, and that native-born Americans have the highest. Illegal immigrants are half as likely to be incarcerated as native-born Americans, and legal immigrants are 74 percent less likely to be incarcerated…. A bunch of weird racists like to argue about these findings, claiming that this lower crime rate only presents itself because the natural-born group doesn’t factor out Black people, which these bigots...

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