Department of Homeland Security officially spreading lies about immigrant crime
No, undo ented immigrants don’t “routinely victimize Americans.”
A Department of Homeland Security memo authored by Secretary John Kelly asserts that “criminal aliens routinely victimize Americans and other legal residents.”
The memo, en led “Enforcement of the Immigration Laws to Serve the National Interest,” creates a new federal office meant to work with those victims.
“Accordingly, I am establishing the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office within the Office of the Director of ICE, which will create a programmatic liaison between ICE and the known victims of crimes committed by removable aliens,” Kelly writes. “To that end, I direct the Director of ICE to immediately reallocate any and all resources that are currently used to advocate on behalf of illegal aliens to the new VOICE Office, and to immediately terminate the provision of such outreach or advocacy services to illegal aliens.”
But Homeland Security’s new VOICE office is based on a false premise. Data indicates undo ented immigrants are no more likely to commit crimes than American citizens, and are actually less likely to be criminals in some cases.
The literature is summarized in a 2015 Cato Ins ute report en led, “Immigration and Crime — What the Research Says.” Here are some key findings from studies cited in the report.
— One study found that “roughly 1.6 percent of immigrant males 18–39 are incarcerated, compared to 3.3 percent of the native-born.” The study found the disparity in census data spanning three decades — from 1980 to 2010.
— Another found that the phased rollout of the Secure Communities (S-COMM) immigration enforcement program didn’t reduce crime in affected communities. S-COMM “led to no meaningful reduction in the FBI index crime rate,” researchers found. If undo ented immigrants were more likely to commit criminal acts, you’d expect to see crime rates decrease as undo ented immigrants were removed from communities. That wasn’t the case.
— Another study “looked at 159 cities at three dates between 1980 and 2000 and found that crime rates and levels of immigration are not correlated,” the CATO report says, summarizing the findings.
— Another “looked at a sample of 150 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and found that levels of recent immigration had a statistically significant negative effect on homicide rates but no effect on property crime rates.” Yet another study found that an influx of immigrants is actually correlated with decreases in homicide and robbery rates.
— A study that looked looked at 103 different MSAs from 1994–2004 found that “the weight of the evidence suggests that immigration is not associated with increased levels of crime. To the extent that a relationship does exist, research often finds a negative effect of immigration on levels of crime, in general, and on homicide in particular.”
https://thinkprogress.org/homeland-s...020#.oeh3nmw4g
goddam, you and ALL Repugs are nasty, lying, bad-faith sons of es.