Thread by @reveal

1/ Every week we track hate in America.

This week’s edition looks at the president’s claims that connect immigrants to crime.

We found a mountain of reputable research disproving them: revealnews.org/blog/the-hate-…

2/ As immigration goes up, crime goes down, according to a 2018 study from @UWMadison and @LifeAtPurdue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

3/ Increased immigration likely caused crime to decrease in most metro areas, a massive study led by a researcher at @buffalostate found: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

4/ First-generation immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans, according to a @pewresearch study: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013…

5/ “Criminal conviction and arrest rates for immigrants were well below those of native-born Americans,” which holds true for both legal and undocumented immigrants, according to a @CatoInstitute analysis of data from @Texas__DPS: documentcloud.org/documents/4450…

6/ “Undocumented immigrants may be less likely to engage in serious criminal offending behavior (than U.S. natives),” a researcher at @txamiu found.

Immigrants are, if anything, more likely to be victims of crime than native-born Americans: criminology.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/a…

7/ “Foreign-born individuals exhibit remarkably low levels of involvement in crime across their life course” and second-generation immigrants offend at roughly the same rate as all native-born Americans, reads a study out of @UMassBoston: criminology.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/a…

8/ “U.S.-born adult men are incarcerated at a rate over two-and-a-half times greater than that of foreign-born men,” a study by @PPICNotes discovered, using data from California prisons: ppic.org/content/pubs/c…

9/ “Compared to documented immigrants and U.S.-born peers, undocumented immigrants report engaging in less crime prior to and following their first arrest,” a paper published in the journal @MigrationLetter found: sites01.lsu.edu/faculty/pfrick…

10/ A 2007 @nberpubs study states: “The process of migration selects individuals who either have lower criminal propensities or are more responsive to deterrent effects than the average native.” nber.org/papers/w13229

11/ A report by @theNASciences calls out “‘issue entrepreneurs’ who promote the immigrant-crime connection in order to drive restrictionist immigration policy … and media portrayals of non-whites and immigrants as prone to violence and crime.” nap.edu/read/21746/cha…

12/ “Undocumented immigration has not increased the prevalence of drug or alcohol problems,” notes a study published in @AMJPublicHealth looking at data stretching between 1990 and 2014: documentcloud.org/documents/4450…

13/ Look at all that science, all saying the same thing: The fear of immigrant crime isn’t based in reality.

14/ Also in this week’s Hate Report: We tracked hate attacks at this year’s Pride events across the country, a North Dakota town worried about a white supremacist takeover of its government, and more: revealnews.org/blog/the-hate-…

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