Immigrants Commit Far Less Crimes Than “Native” Citizens

Alex Thurston, of the blog The Seminal, blogs about a recent study put out by the Public Policy Institute of California:

This report, which suggests that immigrants (both legal and illegal) commit fewer crimes than native-born American citizens in California, caught my eye today. I’m sure xenophobes will dismiss the results, and offer plenty of anecdotes to back up their claims that all immigrants are criminals, but the article speaks for itself:

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