Is there data showing that Mexican immigrants cause increased crime in US?

Question

I'm searching this topic and all I find are studies showing that Mexican immigrants commit fewer crimes than American born whites and that cities receiving illegal immigrants have lower crime rates than comparable cities without such immigrants.

Sure, there are some high profile examples of heinous acts by illegal immigrants, but they are less prevalent than things done by American citizens.

There are statistics? Then were are they?

If being here illegally is their only crime, then they solution would be it make it legal for them to be here.

Answer 1

if they are so violent and criminal this articles it said the opposite check it out!
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By April M. Washington, Rocky Mountain News
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Republican lawmakers Friday assailed a bipartisan proposal to open a recruitment office in Mexico to attract seasonal workers, saying it risks making Colorado a magnet for illegal immigrants.
"This is sending the wrong message," said Republican Sen. Greg Brophy, a farmer from the Eastern Plains. "We need to be more creative than just opening up a state-sponsored employment office in Juarez. That's throwing in the towel and saying, 'Come on in.' "

Rep. Marsha Looper, R-Calhan, and Sen. Abel Tapia, D-Pueblo, are floating a plan to recruit seasonal legal workers in Mexico to help Colorado farmers who are struggling to find help to bring in crops. The legislators initially called it a "guest worker" program, but only the federal government can grant visas to foreign workers. The proposal is intended only to help expedite existing visa programs, not create a new one, as some critics have said.

The plan is preliminary, and talks just have gotten under way about introducing legislation in January.

Senate Republicans called the proposal an attempt by Democrats to backslide from recent legislative efforts to stem the flow of illegal immigrants.

"Unless the state is prepared to spend tens of millions of dollars to keep tabs on guest workers to make sure they don't overstay their visas, then this is a bad idea," said Sen. Josh Penry, R-Fruita.

In truth, the proposal came from a Republican.

Looper, a GOP House freshman, approached Tapia about co-sponsoring a bill.

Looper could not be reached for comment Friday, but said earlier she urged her GOP colleagues to put aside partisan politics and do what's best for Colorado's agricultural market.

Looper has been pressured this week by fellow Republicans to back away from the proposal.

Rep. Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, credited Looper for thinking outside the box, but argues that state-sponsored recruitment of migrant workers only would foster illegal immigration and further weaken attempts to secure the nation's southern border.

"This goes a step too far," he said. "Sometimes you got to beat people back into the box. She has some high hurdles to get through before she gets to the border."

Tapia defended the measure Friday as a creative and sound idea. He said neither he nor Looper is trying to lure undocumented workers or create a pathway to citizenship.

Tapia and Looper have said that the state's crackdown on illegal immigration has caused migrant workers to bypass Colorado, leaving farmers short-handed.

"We only want to expedite the current system," Tapia said.

Looper and Tapia are hoping an office in Mexico can help Colorado farmers draw migrant workers through an existing federal visa program called "H-2A."

That program has no cap on visa numbers, as some other visas do. However, employers must first find the specific foreign employees they want to hire, then have them approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.

The state of Colorado and employers also would have to provide housing and transportation for migrant workers.



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Answer 2

I don't know about studies of people who LEGALLY emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico...

But illegal immigrants broke the law just by being here, so 100% of them committed at least one crime.

As far as violent crimes go, I am not familiar with any studies showing a change either way, and I would dare to say that you can't cite a single study showing lower crime rates among immigrant groups than the general population...

Answer 3

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
Sorry, can't help you with statistics, but the fact is that if even one illegal criminal alien were not here to commit that particular crime then that particular crime would not have been committed. They all need to be deported.

LEGAL IMMIGRANT
A guess would be that after someone has worked so hard and paid so much going thru the legal channels to be in this country that they really do want to be a productive part of it and will not commit a crime. The thought of deportation to them is too great.

Answer 4

The point is about ILLEGAL MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS. Is this concept so hard to comprehend? This not an issue about race or nativism. This is an issue of illegal immigration in this country. Whether illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the rest of Americans is entirely irrelevant. Those crimes would not have happened if those illegal immigants were not in this country. Those people would still be alive. One more time kids, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

Answer 5

YES THEY DO INCREASE CRIME. YOU ARE WRONG.

I don't know where you are getting YOUR statistics (which I don't see cited by you, "information police") but I did a simple google search and found exactly the opposite. Illegal aliens represent a disproportionately high population of American prisons http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_illegalsandcrime so not only are they increasing crime, but they increase crime at a higher rate than other populations.

Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans every day http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53103 That's more death each day than we suffer in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. For some victims and their stories http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims.html

The Pew Hispanic Center state that 57% of illegal aliens are of Mexican origin and about 24% are of non-Mexican Latin American origin. They also report that while the number of legal immigrants (including LPRs, refugees, and asylees) arriving has not varied substantially since the 1980s, the number of illegal aliens has increased dramatically and, since the mid 1990s, has surpassed the number of legal immigrants.

A growing issue is gangs which are made of and support illegal aliens such as Mara Salvatrucha. According to a Maldon Institute report, MS 13 “appears to be in control of much of the Mexican border and, in addition to its smuggling and contraband rackets, the gang collects money from illegal immigrants that it helps [move] across the border into the United States.” Its members have committed murder, severed limbs, assaulted, robbed, and raped and are protected by international law with El Salvador.

Issues related to illegal immigration to the United States include research that such immigration has hidden medical consequences, such as the importation of diseases (such as polio, plague, dengue fever, drug-resistant tuberculosis, the chagas disease, and leprosy), which some sources describe as serious.

Experts say that more than 100 sexual predators cross the border every day, accounting for 1,000,000 sex crimes in the US. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50441

Answer 6

The illegal border hoppers are not commiting the "most" but are very largely contributing to the overall crime rate today, take every prison in America today and tally them up majority are blacks/mexicans...then you have the whites...and lastly about 1% are asians/others. This is not hatred towards mexicans or any others it's FACT.

Answer 7

Well the crimes that are being committed are usually gang related. I don't think you can blame the majority of the working illegal immigrants but the gangs.

Answer 8

I found this below on-line. However, over 7 million-19 million illegals that are here are causing a crime because they are here illegally. So that would be 100% committed crimes. As far as just immigrants here legally I could fine nothing. You would have to go look under specific races in each state. Would probably take a lot of work.


The Office of Immigration Statistics in the Department of Homeland Security estimates based on U.S. Census that 10.5 million illegal aliens were living in the United States in May 2005 and that the number grew at a national average of 408,000 a year



Ran the numbers to see how much crime is caused by illegal immigrants. I conclude that they cause about 21% of it, a crime rate 6 time that of legal residents, meaning that illegal immigrants cause 3,360 murders, 19,950 rapes, 450,000 burglaries, and 1.45 million serious thefts, besides other categories of crimes.

Here’s my methodology, since this kind of data, despite its obvious importance, isn’t available readily from the government, no doubt as part of the general policy of nonenforcement of immigration laws. My source notes are at the end of this post.

In 2005 there were 10.5 million illegal aliens, according to the government, including about 264,000 in jail and prison for non-immigration crimes. That’s an incarceration rate of 2.5%.

The total population was 296,639,000, including 1,496,000 in jail and prison, for an incarceration rate of 0.50%. Subtracting out illegals, the non-illegal population is then 286,139,000, with 1,235,000 in jail and prison, for an incarceration rate of 0.43%.

21.4% of inmates are thus illegal, and I assume that illegal immigrant criminals are caught and incarcerated at the same rate as domestic ones, and that no criminals are illegal immigrants except those identified in my data source, which is the number of prisoners who have committed at least two misdemeanors that state and local government find out are illegal and ask the federal government for reimbursement for. There are probably more; I don’t know how many.

Then I just multiply the amount of different categories of crimes by 21% to get the number committed by illegal immigrants.

Illegal Alien Invasion Deadlier Than Iraq by Mac Johnson did the calculations a very different way and came up with an estimate of 1,480 murders by year by illegal immigrants. I thought his method (based on crime rates in Mexico, etc.) would be an overestimate, but I see it is less than half of my estimate based on prison records.

The numbers paint a completely different story from the one commonly see in the press under headlines such as “The Myth of Immigrant Criminality” ( “The Myth of Immigrant Criminality,” Harvard Magazine (September-October, 2006) pp. 15-16, discussing Prof. Sampson’s work. See also an article on work by Ruben Rumbaut and Walter Ewing). The reason is simple: the much-cited studies are about legal immigrants, not illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding, and include Indian doctors, Korean grocers, and Mexican grandmothers who are unlikely to be committing many murders and rapes.

Statistical Abstract: crimes: 16 95 401 855 10,328 2,143 6,948 1,237. Multiply each by .21 to get 3,360 fewer murders, 19,950 fewer rapes, 450,000 fewer burglaries, and 1.45 million fewer serious thefts.

Statistical Abstract: 1,496,000 total in prison in 2004.

Statisical Abstract: population in 2005: 296,639,000

GAO report number GAO-05-337R entitled ‘Information on Criminal Aliens Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons and Local Jails’ which was released on May 9, 2005:

* Criminal aliens incarcerated increased from about 42,000 at year-end 2001 to about 49,000 at year-end 2004. [federal prisons only]

* Fiscal year 2002-SCAAP reimbursed all 50 states for incarcerating about 77,000 criminal aliens.

* Fiscal year 2002-SCAAP reimbursed 752 local jurisdictions for incarcerating about 138,000 criminal aliens.

* SCAAP is a Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), program that partially reimburses state and local jurisdictions annually for the cost of incarcerating some but not all criminal aliens illegally in the country. Not all jurisdictions submit for SCAAP reimbursement.

* State and local jurisdictions voluntarily submit data annually on inmates they suspect to be criminal aliens for possible reimbursement. The program reimburses these jurisdictions for criminal aliens who:

-were convicted of a felony or two misdemeanors and incarcerated for a minimum of 4 days and -entered the U.S. without inspection, or were in immigration removal proceedings at the time they were taken into custody; or were admitted as a nonimmigrant and failed to maintain nonimmigrant status.[NOTE 1]

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Answer 9

Criminal Record Search Database : http://SearchVerifyInfos.com/Help

Answer 10

yes but the US government quit putting the statistics public (recent statistics)