Right-wing restrictionists are working overtime to convince the American public that unauthorized aliens are “bad hombres” who commit crimes. President 
Trump talked at length in his State of the Union address about the two Long Island girls killed by MS13, an El Salvadorian gang, as if this was somehow representative of the undocumented population in general. And National Review recently ran a piece by a former US Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow trying to prove with “hard” data and stats that undocumented aliens were much more crime prone than others.
But Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh found some fundamental errors in Kirsanow’s analysis that completely discredit his conclusions. He shows that although the data about immigrant crime rate is not perfect, what there is suggests the opposite of what Kirsanow claims.
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