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Ran Abramitzky, a Stanford University economics professor, helped lead a nationally representative study of incarceration rates for immigrants and U.S.-born citizens from 1870 to 2020. The study included all immigrants, not only those in the country illegally.
It found, Abramitzky said in an email to The Times, that "as a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years."
It also found that "relative to the US-born, immigrants' incarceration rates have declined since 1960," and "immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated" — and "30% less likely even relative to US-born whites." That was true for immigrants from all regions, he said.
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Data show fentanyl deaths in the U.S. did increase under Biden. But they also increased under then-President Trump.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in May that U.S. drug overdoses, including from fentanyl, decreased in 2023 for the first time since 2018. Deaths attributed to fentanyl specifically decreased to 74,702 in 2023 from 76,226 in 2022.
Republicans say Biden's America is awash in immigrant-driven crime. What do the data say? (yahoo.com) |
