But the politicians and media who want to blame Trump or his supporters can find the real culprit in their own mirrors.

Under different immigration rules, and a different enforcement regimen, Kathryn Steinle would still be alive. Under different immigration rules, many thousands of other crimes would have been prevented. Under different immigration rules, the average U.S. crime rate might be lower than it is today—and probably considerably lower than it will be in future.

about 0.2 percent of GDP, in a computation frequently cited and endorsed by the Obama administration.

The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 20 percent of the U.S. prison population is foreign born. That does not imply that foreign-born persons are committing only 20 percent of crime right now. Yet that is how the statistic is often used.

Second, crime by the unauthorized, like the population of illegal immigrants itself, appears to be disproportionately concentrated in border states.

Here’s what it found:

First, by any definition, unauthorized immigrants commit a lot of crimes.

As Senator Ted Cruz pointed out during a July 21 Judiciary Committee hearing on crimes by illegal immigrants, in 2014 alone, immigration authorities released into American communities 193 illegal immigrants with homicide convictions, 426 people with sexual-assault convictions and 16,000 with drunk-driving convictions. Altogether, 104,000 people who by law should have been deported were instead allowed to remain on American soil.

Unauthorized immigrants are a net positive for public budgets because they contribute more to the system than they take out.

In particular, when the economy is growing and the labor market is adding jobs, new immigration creates enough jobs even in the short run (and even for the less-educated) to cause no harm to the net employment of native-born workers.

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The region along the U.S./Mexico border is now an open war zone. Just across the U.S. border, the city of Juarez, Mexico is considered to be one of the most dangerous cities on the entire planet because of the brutal drug war being waged there.

California’s overstretched health care system is on the verge of collapse. 

Illegal immigrants generally don’t pay taxes.

44 million Americans are on food stamps.  47 million Americans are living in poverty.  We just can’t take in a whole lot of extra workers right now.

In fact, stories of how “good” life in America is just encourages more and more immigrants to come to the United States illegally.

Once many illegal immigrants arrive in the United States they either try to make a living legally (by directly competing with blue collar American workers  for jobs and driving their wages down) or illegally by selling drugs or being involved in other kinds of criminal activity.

The sad truth is that the U.S. government has absolutely refused to secure the U.S. border with Mexico for decades, and this has allowed millions upon millions of criminals, drug dealers and gang members to cross freely into the United States. 

Millions of middle class American families can’t afford to provide for their families anymore and are losing their homes, drowning in debt or going bankrupt.

In each case, they found evidence to show that undocumented immigrants were less likely to commit violent crimes than their native-born neighbors.

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said they worry “a lot” or “some” that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported.

“unrealistic.”

say undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S. should be allowed to stay in this country legally if they meet certain requirements.

Among the public overall, there is little support for an effort to deport all those in the U.S. illegally,

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On its face, IRCA seems to create a verynarrow prohibition.

unauthorized alien.

This Note argues thatIRCA does not bar undocumented immigrants from owning busi-nesses.

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ndicates that immigrants are almost twice as likely to start businessesas native-born Americans.

By one scholar’s estimate, as many as eight to ten percent ofundocumented immigrants own businesses

headed by peoplewhose immigration status makes them ineligible to work in the UnitedStates.2

ach an estimated 86 percent of all children living with unauthorized immigrant parents.65The actual impact of DAPA could li

hildren had less than a high school education, and 35 percent had fewer than nine years of formal schooling. By comp

3.3 million potential beneficiaries living with minor children, 19 percen

rants, because unauthorized immigrant households often contain people of various immigration sta-tuses. All household members would benefit from the higher family incomes and reduced anxiety about deportation described later in the report. During the 2009-13 period, 9.9 million people lived in house-holds

deferred action would alleviate the documented psychological, social, and developmental harms associated with having an unauthorized parent. 

Providing work authorization for these unauthorized immigrant parents could raise the average DAPA family's income by 10 percent. Despite very high male labor force participation, the poverty rate for DAPA families is 36 percent, compared with 22 percent for all immigrant families, and 14 percent for families with U.S.-born parents.

This MPI-Urban Institute report describes the population of 3.6 million unauthorized immigrant parents potentially eligible for DAPA and the likely impacts of the program on potential recipients and their children. The report finds that more than 10 million people live in households with at least one potentially DAPA-eligible adult, including some 4.3 million children under age 18—an estimated 85 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.

which would protect from deportation and provide eligibility for work authorization to as many as 3.6 million unauthorized immigrants, according to MPI estimates.

nd benefits for children with unauthorized immigrant parents, even if U.S. born, those in mixed-status families may indeed face furth

Illinois

11.5 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States.5 The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) estimates that there were 5.1 million children under

This fact sheet employs U.S. Census Bureau data to examine the number, characteristics, and socioeconomic status of the 5.1 million children under age 18, both U.S.-citizen and noncitizen, who are living with an unauthorized immigrant parent.

some of these states are implementing policies that could compound the negative effects of parental unauthorized status on children, making the well-being of children in mixed-status families even more precarious.

The research literature finds that growing up with unauthorized immigrant parents places children—nearly 80 percent of whom were born in the United States—

If it spreads along lines of communication, he says, the cause is information. Think Bieber Fever. If it travels along major transportation routes, the cause is microbial. Think influenza. If it spreads out like a fan, the cause is an insect. Think malaria.

Location, Location, Location

Unfortunately, the theory doesn't seem to hold water—for example, crime rates have continued to drop recently despite our prolonged downturn.

If a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired," they observed, "all the rest of the windows will soon be broken."

Escape From New York,

Crime did not rise in every city where housing projects came down.

In 2003, the Brookings Institution published a list of the 15 cities where the number of high-poverty neighborhoods had declined the most. In recent years, most of those cities have also shown up as among the most violent in the U.S., according to FBI data.

two-car-garage families.

Clean-cut kids serve the same function as American recruits for al-Qaeda: they become the respectable front men.

You know, you move from one place to another and you bring the element with you,

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called HOPE VI,

drug dealers control the stairwells, where children can’t go outside to play, where mothers put their infants to bed in bathtubs.

“these enclaves of poverty,”

Legal scholars today often compare the case’s significance to that of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

In 1949 in Chicago, a rumor that a black family was moving onto a white block prompted a riot that grew to 10,000 people in four days.

Nobody in the antipoverty community and nobody in city leadership was going to welcome the news that the noble experiment that they’d been engaged in for the past decade had been bringing the city down, in ways they’d never expected.

as part of a nationwide experiment to free the poor from the destructive effects of concentrated poverty.

Hot spots had proliferated since the mid-1990s, and little islands of crime had sprung up where none had existed before, dotting the map all around the city.

The session had none of the raucous air of precinct meetings you see on cop shows.

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Lately, though, a new and unexpected pattern has emerged, taking criminologists by surprise.

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