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Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas
We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than nat...
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National Academy of Sciences
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33288713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014704117 |
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description | We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes. In addition, the proportion of arrests involving undocumented immigrants in Texas was relatively stable or decreasing over this period. The differences between US-born citizens and undocumented immigrants are robust to using alternative estimates of the broader undocumented population, alternate classifications of those counted as “undocumented” at arrest and substituting misdemeanors or convictions as measures of crime. |
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spelling | pubmed-77687602021-01-11 Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas Light, Michael T. He, Jingying Robey, Jason P. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Social Sciences We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes. In addition, the proportion of arrests involving undocumented immigrants in Texas was relatively stable or decreasing over this period. The differences between US-born citizens and undocumented immigrants are robust to using alternative estimates of the broader undocumented population, alternate classifications of those counted as “undocumented” at arrest and substituting misdemeanors or convictions as measures of crime. National Academy of Sciences 2020-12-22 2020-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7768760/ /pubmed/33288713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014704117 Text en Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Social Sciences Light, Michael T. He, Jingying Robey, Jason P. Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas |
title | Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas |
title_full | Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas |
title_fullStr | Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas |
title_short | Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas |
title_sort | comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born us citizens in texas |
topic | Social Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33288713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014704117 |
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