Surprise! Donald Trump is wrong about immigrants and crime.

[kpete]

To wit:

—"Foreign-born individuals exhibit remarkably low levels of involvement in crime across their life course." (Bianca Bersani, University of Massachusetts, 2014. Published in Justice Quarterly.)

Citing Bersani's work, Pew Research created this graph, showing crime rates among the immigrant community.

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"The crime rate among first-generation immigrants — those who came to this country from somewhere else — is significantly lower than the overall crime rate and that of the second generation," they write.


Since undocumented immigrants are more than a quarter of the immigrant population, it's nearly impossible that the overall-immigrant crime rate could be so much lower if the undocumented-immigrant crime rate were significantly higher.

— "There’s essentially no correlation between immigrants and violent crime."




http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/02/surprise-donald-trump-is-wrong-about-immigrants-and-crime/

[Solly Mack]

1. Has he ever been right?

Well, besides right-wing.

[daleanime]

2. I hope you're not relying on facts....

to change the Donald's mind. If that worked he would have admitted that he's shit as a businessman decades ago.

[TexasProgresive]

3. The problem is

There are those who want to believe what he said and will take it as an affirmation for their mistaken belief. Trump is playing to the lowest common denominator of the low life party.

[PatrickforO]

4. 'the Donald' hasn't ever been right about anything.

Honestly, I don't know how someone that moronic can put his pants on in the morning. And how the HELL did he become a billionaire???

[Gothmog]

5. Trump is always wrong