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Immigrants far less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 26, 2008 National Briefing | West California: Study of Immigrants and Crime By JULIA PRESTON, NY Times Immigrants in the state, about 35 percent of adults, are far less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes, according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group. Among men ages 18 to 40, the group most likely to commit crimes, native-born Americans were 10 times more likely than immigrants to be incarcerated for crimes in California prisons and jails. The study included both legal and illegal immigrants, without focusing separately on illegal immigrants. But it found that native-born American men ages 18 to 40 were at least eight times more likely to be imprisoned for crimes than Mexican immigrants in that age range who were not naturalized citizens ? a group likely to have a high percentage of illegal immigrants...continue to full post

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