It also worth noting that criminologists around the world have generally found that immigrants have lower crime rates than the general population. Some reasons for this are obvious: (a) immigrants are generally hand-picked by immigration authorities and thus are the 'best' people among those wanting to come to the country; (b) immigrants are those who are so strongly motivated to improve their lives that they were willing to leave behind their country and friends to get a better life for themselves, which is not the kind of person who engages in crime; (c) immigrants much more than existing residents of Western countries, appreciate and value the opportunities that living in a good country provides - they know first-hand what it's like to live in a bad and crime-filled country and wanted no part of it and they don't want to waste the opportunity they now have; (d) the threat of deportation often hangs over their heads if they are caught committing a crime within a certain number of years of immigrating (or ever, if they are illegal immigrants).
Pew Research gives this graph:
It shows that first-generation immigrants commit crime at only about 2/3rd the rate of native-born people. But those immigrants' children generally have sufficiently assimilated to commit crime at pretty much the same rate as natives.
Pew Research gives this graph:
It shows that first-generation immigrants commit crime at only about 2/3rd the rate of native-born people. But those immigrants' children generally have sufficiently assimilated to commit crime at pretty much the same rate as natives.
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