Another Fatally Flawed Study on Illegal Alien Crime from the Cato Institute
avatar By Spencer Raley March 11, 2019
An honest researcher will embark on any study by asking a question, then offer an answer that is based on whatever the best relevant data reveals. Unfortunately, many “research experts†for the open-borders lobby have instead opted to begin with whatever conclusion best supports their mass-immigration narrative, then twist, frame, or fabricate whatever underlying data they cite so that it appears to support a foregone conclusion – usually that immigrants, and illegal aliens, are somehow better than Americans.
The most recent study on immigrant crime (with a primary focus on illegal alien criminality) from the notoriously open-borders Cato Institute is a prime example of this.
In Cato’s report, Michelangelo Landgrave and Alex Nowrasteh attempt to claim that illegal aliens are half as likely to be incarcerated as U.S. citizens. However, when you examine their methodology, it becomes obvious that they rely on questionable research methods, and leave out large demographic sub-sets, based on shaky assumptions. Because of this, their conclusions are unreliable.
Listed below are just a few of the most egregious flaws in their report:
https://immigrationreform.com/2019/03/11/another-fatally-flawed-study-on-illegal-alien-crime-from-the-cato-institute-immigrationreform-com/
