Criminal Immigrants in Texas: Illegal Immigrant Conviction
and Arrest Rates for Homicide, Sexual Assault, Larceny, and Other Crimes
By Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute
February 26, 2018
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deport most illegal immigrants who
encounter law enforcement, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions is attempting to
withhold federal funds from local police departments that do not cooperate with
DHS in that effort.1 Underlying both actions is the belief that illegal
immigrants are a significant source of crime.2 This brief uses Texas Department
of Public Safety data to measure the conviction and arrest rates of illegal
immigrants by crime. In Texas in 2015, the criminal conviction and arrest rates
for immigrants were well below those of native-born Americans. Moreover, the
conviction and arrest rates for illegal immigrants were lower than those for
native-born Americans. This result holds for most crimes.[…]
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E-Verify Could Have Increased Crime in Arizona
By Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute
February 28, 2018
Illegal immigrants who can’t work are more likely to commit
crimes in order to support themselves, according to a superb new paper by
Matthew Freedman, Emily Owens, and Sarah Bohn that is forthcoming in the
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
They examined administrative data from Bexar County, Texas and found an
increase in felony charges filed against residents who were most likely to be
illegal immigrants after the Immigration Reform and Control Act made it
unlawful for illegal immigrants to work in the United States.[…]
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