A study by sociology professors at U.C. Irvine and George Washington University using census data and F.B.I. data showed that incarceration rates of native-born Americans were far higher than for migrants.
As one professor involved in the study said, “An immigrant does not come here to commit crimes and get on welfare. They come here to work harder than native-born people do.”
I keep hearing that Americans are angry. Much of that anger is directed downward to the poor, to immigrants, to refugees, to those on the bottom. Redirect your anger. Point it upward to the guys in suits, to the hedge fund managers, to the Wall Street manipulators, to the Koch Brothers, to the 1%. They are the ones causing the problems and wrecking the country.
[The material on immigrants is taken from an article in the Times entitled “Data Link Immigrants To Low Rates of Crime,” Jan. 14, 2016, p. A10.]
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