Some Migrant Categories Attract More Criminals Than Others
An opportunity for decision-makers
By David North and Kathleen Sharkey on June 2, 2021
While others wrestle with the question of whether immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than natives — the evidence is mixed — we can safely say that some groups of migrants, just like some groups of natives, are much more likely to have criminal records than others.
We at CIS have just done a sample study of rejected immigration applications in which we found one group with no criminal records at all, and in another group exactly half of the denied applicants had such records. The study dealt, because of data availability, with a sample only of rejected applicants, but the findings were revealing.
At the upper level of respectability, those seeking EB-1 green cards as Priority Workers, our sample found no criminal records. At the other end of the spectrum, dealing with crime victims holding U visas and seeking green cards, we found that fully 50 percent of the sample had criminal records. It should be remembered that these proportions were among those denied benefits, not the whole population.
https://cis.org/North/Some-Migrant-Categories-Attract-More-Criminals-Others
