By Kirk Semple, New York Times
September 3, 2014
Six years after the federal government opened an immigration enforcement program intended to improve public safety, deporting hundreds of thousands of people, many of them convicted criminals, a new study has concluded that the program has had “no observable effect on the overall crime rate.”
The finding “calls into question the long-standing assumption that deporting noncitizens who commit crimes is an effective crime-control strategy,” said the study, conducted by two law professors at the University of Chicago and New York University.
The analysis, scheduled for publication in the November issue of The Journal of Law and Economics, a journal for peer-reviewed research, coincides with the Obama administration’s internal review of the program, known as Secure Communities. Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary, has suggested that he might overhaul the program, saying it needs “a fresh start.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/us/deportations-dont-lower-crime-rates-study-says.html
The paper is available at:
http://www.law.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyprofiles/adamcox/securecommunities
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