Stephen Dinan at the
Washington Times offers a piece on a report of on illegal immigrants and crime.
The crime rate among illegal
immigrants in Arizona is twice that of other residents, Attorney General Jeff
Sessions said Friday, citing a new report based on conviction data.
The report, from the Crime
Prevention Research Center, used a previously untapped set of data from Arizona
that detailed criminal convictions and found that illegal immigrants between 15
and 35 are less than 3 percent of the state’s population, but nearly 8 percent
of its prison population.
And the crimes they were
convicted of were, on the whole, more serious, said John R. Lott Jr., the
report’s author and president of the research center.
His findings also challenge
the general narrative that immigrants commit fewer crimes. Those past studies
usually don’t look at legal versus illegal populations, Mr. Lott said.
Mr. Lott said the Arizona
data is able to peek behind that curtain, and the differences between the
populations were stark.
“There appears to be a huge
difference between the two groups,” Mr. Lott said. “The type of person who goes
through the process to legally immigrate in the United States appears to be
very law-abiding versus even the U.S.-born population. The reverse is true for
undocumented immigrants — they are committing crimes, and more serious crimes.”
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