Deportations Have "No Observable Effect" On Crime Rate, Study Concludes
"Six years after the federal government opened an immigration
enforcement program intended to improve public safety, deporting hundreds of
thousands of people, many of them convicted criminals, a
new study has concluded that the program has had 'no observable effect on
the overall crime rate.'
The finding 'calls into question the longstanding assumption that deporting
noncitizens who commit crimes is an effective crime-control strategy,' said the
study, conducted by two law professors at the University of Chicago and New
York University."
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