For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America's most politically charged questions: Does immigration drive crime?
No fucking shit. You think anybody who is in the country illegally is going to draw attention to themselves by committing crimes?
FWIW I’ve known multiple people who admitted to being in the country illegally, and they were wonderful, normal, working people. I’ve also personally been through the US immigration system from a strictly legal standpoint and it’s no picnic, and no wonder people want to cut corners. It was always surprising to me how many upstanding christian, tax paying, public servant working people would say things like “just fly your fiance to mexico and bring her over with you” as if comitting a felony was the common sense answer to a deffective immigration system.