e found in a 2017 study with colleagues that from 1970 to 2010 metropolitan areas with greater concentrations of immigrants, legal and undocumented combined, have less property crime than areas with fewer immigrants, on average.
That is a very interesting. That is not what I had been lead to believe my whole life.
Nor does our study address the reasons that immigration reduces crime, although there is plenty of other scholarship on that issue.
I am interested in why this might be. I will have to look this up.
undocumented immigrant populations for 154 metropolitan areas
It would be interesting to know which areas they studied.