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11 September 2015

Giving Immigrants Legal Resident Status Dramatically Reduces Crime

A clever "natural experiment" analysis from Europe shows that granting legal resident status to someone who has a previous criminal record as an illegal immigrant reduces recidivism by 50%.

Other studies, of course, have already established that immigrants in the U.S., both legal and illegal, commit crimes at lower rates than native born citizens.

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