Notice, this is from the Cato institute.
JANUARY 7, 2019 12:45PM
Illegal Immigrant Conviction Rates Are Low, Even When Factoring in Recidivism
By ALEX NOWRASTEH and Andrew Forrester
Over the last two years, Cato has published three Immigration Research and Policy Briefs on illegal immigrant criminality. In each one, we found that illegal immigrants have lower criminal conviction rates in the state of Texas and lower nationwide incarceration rates relative to native-born Americans. Although nobody has criticized our methods or the data, we answer other criticisms that arise.
The best recent criticism is that illegal immigrant conviction rates are low because they are deported after they serve their sentences, which reduces their recidivism rates relative to native-born Americans who cannot be deported after being released from prison. Thus, the illegal immigrant incarceration or conviction rates are lower than those of native-born Americans because it is more difficult for them to recidivate as they would have to enter the country illegally again to do so. This has been a difficult criticism to address as data limitations are severe, but we attempted to do so after making some assumptions. We focused on comparing first-time criminal conviction rates.
We estimate that native-born Texans had a first-time criminal conviction rate of 683 per 100,000 natives in 2016. In the same year, we estimate that illegal immigrants had a first-time criminal conviction rate of 462 per 100,000 illegal immigrants – 32 percent below that of native-born Americans. Thus, about 36 percent of the gap that we observed in criminal conviction rates between illegal immigrants and native-born Americans can be explained by lower illegal immigrant recidivism that is likely due to their deportation.
This question could have been easily resolved by comparing the immigration statuses of first-time offenders. Of course, such data do not exist. Regardless, this is still an important question even if our estimate results from a back of the envelope estimate. You can judge for yourself how we came to this estimate. This is how we did it.
more:
http://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrant-conviction-rates-are-low-even-when-factoring-recidivism
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