Yes, that theory sounds good, but you're going to have a hard time making the case that making it easier for illegal immigrants to work in the USA is going to also make them more likely to commit crimes.
Anyway, it was just a suggestion for a "comprehensive immigration reform" proposal that may satisfy both sides, you know, a negotiated settlement - not ideal for the right or the left, but sort of addressing the problem/issue, and giving both sides a way to claim victory. The left gets to let the illegals stay in the US as they seem to ardently desire, and the right gets to keep them off welfare, deny them political voting power and still benefit from their labor.
It would probably also expose the left as the liars that they are. If the illegal aliens were allowed to stay legally BUT not vote Democrat, I wonder if they left would abandon the whole cause? In other words, their BS about keeping the families together and helping individuals to become active normal participants in society probably wouldn't interest them one bit if all those new "guest workers" couldn't become citizens and vote Democrat.
here's wiki on immigrants and crime, FWIW
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A majority of studies in the U.S. have found lower crime rates among immigrants than among non-immigrants. [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] Some research even suggests that increases in immigration between 1990 and 2000 may partly explain the reduction in the U.S. crime rate. [9] [111] [112] A 2005 study showed that immigration to large U.S. metropolitan areas does not increase, and in some cases decreases, crime rates there. [113] A 2009 study found that recent immigration was not associated with homicide in Austin, Texas. [114] The low crime rates of immigrants to the United States despite having lower levels of education, lower levels of income and residing in urban areas (factors that should lead to higher crime rates) may be due to lower rates of antisocial behavior among immigrants. [115] A 2016 study finds no link between immigrant populations and violent crime, although there is a small but significant association between undocumented immigrants and drug-related crime. [116]
Research finds that Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program which led to a quarter of a million of detentions (when the study was published; November 2014), had no observable impact on the crime rate. [117] A 2015 study found that the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which legalized almost 3 million immigrants, led to "decreases in crime of 3-5 percent, primarily due to decline in property crimes, equivalent to 120,000-180,000 fewer violent and property crimes committed each year due to legalization". [14]
One of the first political analyses in the U.S. of the relationship between immigration and crime was performed in the beginning of the 20th century by the Dillingham Commission, which found a relationship especially for immigrants from non-Northern European countries, resulting in the sweeping 1920s immigration reduction acts, including the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which favored immigration from northern and western Europe. [118] Recent research is skeptical of the conclusion drawn by the Dillingham Commission. One study finds that "major government commissions on immigration and crime in the early twentieth century relied on evidence that suffered from aggregation bias and the absence of accurate population data, which led them to present partial and sometimes misleading views of the immigrant-native criminality comparison. With improved data and methods, we find that in 1904, prison commitment rates for more serious crimes were quite similar by nativity for all ages except ages 18 and 19, for which the commitment rate for immigrants was higher than for the native-born. By 1930, immigrants were less likely than natives to be committed to prisons at all ages 20 and older, but this advantage disappears when one looks at commitments for violent offenses." [119]
For the early twentieth century, one study found that immigrants had "quite similar" imprisonment rates for major crimes as natives in 1904 but lower for major crimes (except violent offenses; the rate was similar) in 1930. [119] Contemporary commissions used dubious data and interpreted it in questionable ways. [119] |
