Dreamers Commit LESS Crimes than Native Born Americans

Someone recently started a thread claiming that Dreamers were 245% more likely to commit crimes than native bornAmericans.

That is completely false.

Here are some basic stats from the linked Cato Institute article that cites real sources of information on immigrant crimes.

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DREAMers had an incarceration rate of 0.98 percent in 2015 compared to a native-born incarceration rate of 1.12 percent, a DACA-ineligible illegal immigrant incarceration rate of 0.38 percent, and a legal immigrant incarceration rate of 0.24 percent

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DREAMers are underrepresented in adult correctional facilities because they make up 2.05 percent of the total U.S. population in the 18-to-34 age range with at least a high school or equivalent degree but are only 1.94 percent of the incarcerated prisoners with those same characteristics (Figure 2). By contrast, natives in that range are overrepresented in adult correctional facilities because they make up 87.19 percent of the population but are 94.84 percent of all prisoners.

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The Cato article has a thorough discussion of immigrant crime rates. It's an excellent read.

But, hardly any you will read the Cato article. It's much easier and safer to blindly buy into the fake news 245% B.S. article. Who cares about the facts, right.

SAD!

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