Published on Wed, Jul 08, 2015
CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States [1] and by quoting Senior Researcher Walter Ewing in "Immigrants and crime: Crunching the numbers [2]":
"'Government statistics on who is being removed from the country can be somewhat deceptive,' says Walter Ewing, a senior researcher for the American Immigration Council who helped author a report released this week that argues immigrants are less likely to be criminals than native-born U.S. citizens."
The article went on to point out figures from the Council’s recent report [1] which dispells anti-immigrant rhetoric through facts, noting:
“…the percentage of foreign-born men in the United States who are incarcerated (1.6%) is less than the percentage of U.S.-born men who are imprisoned (3.3%). And the reason they're behind bars is often tied to immigration offenses.”
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