The study discovered that a decrease in the immigrant population in local communities had no statistically meaningful impact on violent crime.
U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the podium after a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2019 in New York City. A new study has found that, contrary to Trump's claims, decreasing the immigrant population does not generally bring about lower crime rates.President Donald Trump said in an Oval Office address that"thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now" on illegal immigration.
During the program's lifespan, over 450,000 people were deported under its auspices. But the institute's study did not find that this increase had any meaningful impact on crime. Immigration and Customs Enforcement consistently touts its prioritization of enforcement actions against undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records. And the study's authors do posit that deporting criminal immigrants would have a beneficial impact on crime rates.
But the data analyzed by the study's authors complicate the narrative ICE is seeking to portray. For one, the study noted that 45 percent of deportees under the Secure Communities initiative had minor prior convictions or no convictions at all, despite how ICE described its own enforcement priorities.
But the results compiled by the researchers also cast a shadow on ICE's criminal prioritization claims, as they didn't find any meaningful reduction in crime rates from the surge in deportations under the Obama administration.
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