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Violent Crime With The Influx Of Immigrants Along The Southern Us Border., Jesse Clark
Violent Crime With The Influx Of Immigrants Along The Southern Us Border., Jesse Clark
Fall Student Research Symposium 2021
The United States citizens have a perception that the foreign-born, especially “illegal aliens,” are responsible for the carnage and the reported increase in violent crime rates along the U.S.and Mexico border, and the media and popular myth often perpetuate this mentality. But these perceptions are not supported empirically; instead, they are proven wrong by the scientific evidence. If we understand “carnage” to mean criminal violence and killings, state and national crime data doesn’t support this narrative. Although an increase of property crimes, due to the sheer number of border crossers, have been attributable to traveling migrants — like break-ins, cut …