No link between immigrants and crime, professor says

An article in The New York Times about the Trump administration’s incorrect assertion that immigrants bring crime into the U.S. reports on research by Robert Adelman, associate professor of sociology, that compared immigration rates with crime rates for 200 metropolitan areas over the last several decades. “In general, the study’s data suggests either that immigration has the effect of reducing average crime, or that there is simply no relationship between the two, and that the 54 areas in the study where both grew were instances of coincidence, not cause and effect. This was a consistent pattern in each decade from 1980 to 2016, with immigrant populations and crime failing to grow together,” the article notes.

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