--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "aztjbailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> do you care for your own physical life?
> do you care for the physical life of your loved ones?
> do you have any understanding at all of the physical violence that is
> happening in L.A.?
Good Lord! ...another xenophobic crackpot.
It's a fact that immigrants commit less crime than the American born.
Researchers and observers, aware that widespread concern over crime
committed by immigrants can boil over into hate crimes committed
against them, rarely hesitate to note that the majority of immigrants
are law-abiding. Often, they go further, adding that immigrants commit
fewer crimes than the native-born. A 1997 paper jointly sponsored by
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Urban Institute
typifies this view:5
Few stereotypes of immigrants are as enduring, or have been proven
so categorically false over literally decades of research, as the
notion that immigrants are disproportionately likely to engage in
criminal activity
(If anything) immigrants are disproportionately
unlikely to be criminal.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/crime/toc.html#fear
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Data from the 5 percent Public Use Microsample (PUMS) of the 2000
census were used to measure the institutionalization rates of
immigrants and natives, focusing on males 18 to 39, most of whom are
in correctional facilities. Of the 45.2 million males age 18 to 39,
three percent were in federal or state prisons or local jails at the
time of the 2000 census a total of over 1.3 million, in line with
official prison statistics at that time.
...In fact, the incarceration rate of the US born (3.51 percent) was
four times the rate of the foreign born (0.86 percent). The
foreign-born rate was half the 1.71 percent rate for non-Hispanic
white natives, and 13 times less than the 11.6 percent incarceration
rate for native black men.
...Tellingly, among the foreign born, the highest incarceration rate
by far (4.5 percent) was observed among island-born Puerto Ricans, who
are not immigrants as such since they are US citizens by birth and can
travel to the mainland as natives. If the island-born Puerto Ricans
were excluded from the foreign-born totals, the national incarceration
rate for the foreign born would drop to 0.68 percent.
Of particular interest is the finding that the lowest incarceration
rates among Latin American immigrants are seen for the least educated
groups: Salvadorans and Guatemalans (0.52 percent), and Mexicans (0.70
percent). These are precisely the groups most stigmatized as
"illegals" in the public perception and outcry about immigration.
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=403
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Apparently you ARE xenophobic, eh?
