You moved the goalposts. This is about
citizen vs. non-citizen and that's how I'll reply.
Some of the most
extensive research comes from Stanford University. Economist Ran Abramitzky found that since the 1960s, immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born people.
There is also state level research, that shows similar results: researchers at the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank,
looked into Texas in 2019. They found that undocumented immigrants were 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a crime.
Beyond incarceration rates, research also shows that there is no correlation between undocumented people and a rise in crime. Recent investigations by The New York Times and The Marshall Project found that between 2007 and 2016, there was no link between undocumented immigrants and a rise in violent or property crime in those communities.
An NIJ-funded study examining data from the Texas Department of Public Safety estimated
the rate at which undocumented immigrants are arrested for committing crimes. The study
found that undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born
U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for
property crimes.[1]
During this time, undocumented immigrants had the lowest offending rates overall for both
total felony crime (see exhibit 1) and violent felony crime (see exhibit 2) compared to other
groups. U.S.-born citizens had the highest offending rates overall for most crime types, with
documented immigrants generally falling between the other two groups.
Please attempt to refute the above without using random X handles.
