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07-30-2010, 01:55 PM
http://guanabee.com/2010/07/safe-immigrant-cities/
Numerous independent studies over the past century have proven categorically that immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes or reside behind bars than native born people. A fact that dozens of academics who specialize in the issue wrote to President George W. Bush about in 2007 as the immigration debate heated up. One of those academics, Rubén G. Rumbaut, a sociologist who studies immigration at the University of California, Irvine wrote Reason Magazine via email last year, "The evidence points overwhelmingly to the same conclusion: Rates of crime and conviction for undocumented immigrants are far below those for the native born, and that is especially the case for violent crimes, including murder." This is interesting when you consider that many proponents of anti-immigrant measures like Arizona SB 1070 use "the rise in immigrant crime" as an argument for their cause. Recently, one such crime study, the CQ Press: City Crime Rankings, which analyzes crime statistics reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the categories of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, named at least five American cities largely populated by immigrants (including immigrants from Latin America) in their top ten safest U.S. cities with a population over 500,000. This is a list of those cities.
Numerous independent studies over the past century have proven categorically that immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes or reside behind bars than native born people. A fact that dozens of academics who specialize in the issue wrote to President George W. Bush about in 2007 as the immigration debate heated up. One of those academics, Rubén G. Rumbaut, a sociologist who studies immigration at the University of California, Irvine wrote Reason Magazine via email last year, "The evidence points overwhelmingly to the same conclusion: Rates of crime and conviction for undocumented immigrants are far below those for the native born, and that is especially the case for violent crimes, including murder." This is interesting when you consider that many proponents of anti-immigrant measures like Arizona SB 1070 use "the rise in immigrant crime" as an argument for their cause. Recently, one such crime study, the CQ Press: City Crime Rankings, which analyzes crime statistics reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the categories of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, named at least five American cities largely populated by immigrants (including immigrants from Latin America) in their top ten safest U.S. cities with a population over 500,000. This is a list of those cities.