And I believe you should have some figures to back you up before you demand I spend thousands of dollars and weeks or more of time so you can say 'I told you so' after riding around in crappy transportation.
It seems that it is statistically riskier to ride around with you on one of your joy rides than with an illegal alien.
According to empirical evidence, immigrants (including illegal immigrants) are less likely to commit crimes than native-born
citizens in the United States.
[1][2][3][4][5]
A 2018 study found that undocumented immigration to the United States did not increase
violent crime rates.
[6] A 2017 study found that "Increased undocumented immigration was significantly associated with reductions in drug arrests, drug overdose deaths, and DUI arrests, net of other factors."
[7] A 2017 study found that California's extension of driving licenses to unauthorized immigrants "did not increase the total number of accidents or the occurrence of fatal accidents, but it did reduce the likelihood of hit and run accidents, thereby improving traffic safety and reducing costs for California drivers ... providing unauthorized immigrants with access to driver's licenses can create positive externalities for the communities in which they live."
[8]
A 2018 study in the
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy found that by restricting the employment opportunities for unauthorized immigrants, the
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) likely caused an increase in crime rates.
[9][10] A 2018
PLOS One study estimated that the undocumented immigrant population in the United States was 22 million, approximately twice as large as the estimate derived from the
United States Census Bureau's figures. An author of the study notes that this has implications for the relationship between undocumented immigration and crime, suggesting that the crime rate among undocumented immigrants is significantly lower than previously estimated: "You have the same number of crimes but now spread over twice as many people as was believed before, which right away means that the crime rate among undocumented immigrants is essentially half whatever was previously believed."
[11]
According to analysis of the
2010 United States Census, "immigrants to the United States are significantly less likely than native-born citizens to be incarcerated. The authors found that 1.6 percent of immigrant males age 18-39 are incarcerated, compared to 3.3 percent of the native-born... The divide was even sharper when the authors examined the incarceration rate among immigrant men the authors believe likely to be undocumented — specifically less-educated men from
El Salvador and
Guatemala between age 18-29. ... According to the analysis, these likely undocumented immigrants had an incarceration rate of 1.7 percent, compared with 10.7 percent for native-born men without a high school diploma".
[12]
A 2018 study found no evidence that apprehensions of undocumented immigrants in districts in the United States reduced crime rates.
[13]
According to immigration analyst
Alex Nowrasteh, and criminologist
Barry Latzer,
Texas is the only state that tracks illegal immigrants by the specific crime committed.
[14][15][16] Homicide data are regarded as more accurate than data on other crimes because "a much higher proportion of murders are solved."
[16] The Texas data for 2016 showed that the rate of murder convictions in 2016 was 3.2 per 100,000 native-born Americans, 0.9 for every 100,000 legal immigrants and
1.8 per 100,000 illegal immigrants.[14][15]
