Inasmuch as conventional theories of crime and incarceration predict higher rates for young adult males from ethnic minority groups with lower educational attainment — characteristics which describe a much greater proportion of the foreign-born population than of the native born — it follows that immigrants would be expected to have higher incarceration rates than natives. And immigrant Mexican men — who comprise fully a third of all immigrant men between 18 and 39, and who have the lowest levels of education — would be expected to have the highest rates.
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.
Surprisingly, at least from the vantage of conventional wisdom, the data show the above hypotheses to be unfounded. 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 (see Table 1).
Source.In fact, the incarceration rate... Isn't Catch-and-Release a wonderful thing? </sarc>
The lid that needs to be put on ehe sugar/trashcan of this country is to squash businesses that knowingly employ illegal workers.
A relative of mine who was a police officer used to get so frustrated in solving crime problems in his jurisdiction because the managers of the camps where illegals were would always annouce when the police arrived, so they could all hide and cover for the perps. The camp managers didn't care that their workers preyed upon the locals--they would lose profit if they lost workers.
Plus, I think that if people want to invade the US, they should be shot just like any other invader/intruder/raider. That would help cut down on the crime. It might make US prices go through the roof, American wages fall (as companies had to compete by using US workers), etc...but that's going to happen from allowing massive low-cost-labor immigration, too!