There's only one small hitch in O'Reilly's master plan to solve Arizona's "crime wave": Arizona's crime rate has been falling for several years, even as the number of immigrants to Arizona, both documented and undocumented, has been increasing.
What's more, study after study has shown that foreign-born immigrants are, in fact, less likely than native-born white Americans to commit crimes.
This fact--foreign-born immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the native-born--is so at odds with the stereotype that criminality runs rife among recent immigrants and in border communities that confronting politicians and pundits with the facts seems to matter little.
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