Ah, interesting. So this professor leaves out from his tally those
who have been deported, as opposed to incarcerated? Sounds fishy to
me.
Interestingly, the incareration graphs show that blacks and hispanics
make up the vast majority of jailbirds, foreign-born or native. Not
good news. Heck, not news at all.
And this .ing Juan Gonzalez wants more hispanics here???
On Feb 28, 6:50 pm, "drydem" wrote:
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> 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.
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> [1]
> Immigrants do not increase crime rate, study says
> Eunice Moscoso COX NEWS Feb. 27, 2007http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/nation/16792849.htm?...
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> [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
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> [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 2007http://www.ailf.org/ipc/special_report/sr_022107.pdf
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