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The crime rate among illegal immigrants in Arizona is twice that of other residents, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday, citing a new report based on conviction data.

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Mr. Arpaio, 85, served for 24 years as sheriff of Maricopa County — which includes Phoenix — building a national reputation for harsh conditions in his county jail, and for his campaign against undocumented immigrants.

Mr. Arpaio had touted himself as “America’s toughest sheriff,” making inmates wear pink underwear and serving jail food that at least some prisoners called inedible. He was also at the forefront of the so-called birther movement that aimed to investigate President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

The criminal conviction grew out of a lawsuit filed a decade ago charging that the sheriff’s office regularly violated the rights of Latinos, stopping people based on racial profiling, detaining them based solely on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally and turning them over to the immigration authorities.

A federal district judge hearing the case ordered Mr. Arpaio in 2011 to stop detaining people based solely on suspicion of their immigration status, when there was no evidence that a state law had been broken. But the sheriff insisted that his tactics were legal and that he would continue employing them.

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While some immigrants certainly commit crimes, decades-worth of data indicate that immigrants commit far less and are far less likely to commit crime than native born Americans. Immigrants are also highly unlikely to commit acts of terrorism.
Here's what studies show:
* Native-born Americans are incarcerated at a much higher rate than immigrants.




* Immigrants were much less likely to commit most violent crimes. Skye Gould/Business Insider

While the US's immigrant population has grown by more than 5 % over the last 25 years, violent crime has dropped dramatically, according to a 2015 report by the American Immigration Council, a

The foreign-born share of the US population has grown from 7.9% in 1990 to 13.1% in 2013. During the same period, FBI data shows that the violent crime rate has dropped 48%. That includes murer, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

The 2010 American Community Survey found that, over the last three decades, around 1.8% of immigrant males between 18-39 are incarcerated on average, compared with 3.3% of native-born males of the same age.

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the conviction rates were almost certainly skewed heavily.

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Enlil said:

You don't have to agree, but Sheriff Joe specifically targeted illegal immigrants.  Of course that's going to yield more arrests of illegal immigrants.

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XUL said:

Imagine if the Sheriff did not target these criminals? Then we would never know they were criminal at all.

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Enlil said:

XUL said:

Imagine if the Sheriff did not target these criminals? Then we would never know they were criminal at all.

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Now you're starting to understand how white privilege works.  You'll get there eventually.

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Asclepius said:

The study cited on Fox News and in the Washington Times was conducted by John R. Lott Jr. -- a guy about as loony as Alex Jones.  The guy denies climate change exists, blames legalized abortion for higher murder rates, and has been caught publishing studies with falsified research on numerous occasions.

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XUL said:

There is more than one Sheriff in the state of Arizona.

Asclepius said:

The study cited on Fox News and in the Washington Times was conducted by John R. Lott Jr. -- a guy about as loony as Alex Jones.  The guy denies climate change exists, blames legalized abortion for higher murder rates, and has been caught publishing studies with falsified research on numerous occasions.

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That doesn't make him loony.

I also agree abortion is murder.

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