On Feb 28, 12:53 pm, "Prisoner at War"
wrote:
> On Feb 27, 5:51 pm, "drydem" wrote:
>
> > On Feb 23, 10:01 am, "Prisoner at War"
> > wrote:
>
> > > [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/500045p-421631c.html]
>
> > synopsis on a second reading of the above hotlink:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > When a chinese-american NYU freshman, Wesley Chan, justifies
> > his support for a Young Republican "Find the Illegal Immigrant"
> > rally by asserting that illegal immigration is a source of crime,
> > a hispanic editorialist Juan Gonzalez takes exception and
> > recalls the repealled racially discriminatory U.S. laws and
> > implies that today's laws may also be racially discrimatory.
>
> > sidenote:
> > ------------------
> > Since 1967, US general immigration policy was changed to be
> > racially neutral. However, the Dept of State political Asylum
> > and refugee policy still favors applicants with a european
> > cultural background over non-european cultural backgrounds
> > (asian/african) on grounds than applicants with european
> > cultural background/language skill will have an easier time
> > assimilating into US society.
>
> > For the last decade, non white hispanic immigrants make up the
> > majority of all new legal immigrants in the USA. Currently, it is
> > estimated that non-white hispanic immigrants make up the
> > majority of all illegal immigrants in the USA. The crime often
> > associated with illegal immigration is human trafficking/
> > smuggling - with the crime victims of human smuggling are
> > often illegal immigrants themselves.
>
> Just this week some University of California study was relased to
> media fanfare stating how immigrant populations tend to exhibit *less*
> criminal behavior compared to native-born American populations of the
> same age.
> Being the seasoned New Yorker that I am, I immediately wondered, just
> which immigrant populations, and which American ones?
Ruben Rumbaut, a sociology professor at UC Irvine, released
the study for the Immigration Policy Center ( a Washington DC
based Think Tank)[1]. The study conjectures the crime rate
by population strata by looking at the incarceration rates
( for serious crimes) - the source [2][3] referenced below
has a chart of the incarceration rate by ethnicity. The
study is limited to only those major crimes inwhich results
in a prison term. The study's methodology does not appear
to address the possible error that could make the immigrant
incarceration population smaller -- because an immigrant
(illegal or legal) who is convicted of a major crimes could be
deported rather than incarcerated - the immigrant incarceration
population may not represent all those immigrants who have
been convicted of a major crime.
[1]
Immigrants do not increase crime rate, study says
Eunice Moscoso COX NEWS Feb. 27, 2007
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/nation/16792849.htm?source=rss&channel=cctimes_nation
[2]
Study: Immigrant crime rate low
UCI study says immigrants less likely commit crimes than native-born
Americans.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1592092.php
[3] -- actual report referenced by [1] and [2]
The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation
- Incarceration Rates among Native and Foriegn Born Men
Ruben G Rumbaut (UCI) and Walter A Ewing (IPC)
Immigration Policy Center. Spring 2007
http://www.ailf.org/ipc/special_report/sr_022107.pdf
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