{"id":16392,"date":"2018-02-07T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16392"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:59:15","slug":"battle-sharpens-criminal-aliens-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/02\/07\/battle-sharpens-criminal-aliens-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Sharpens Over Criminal Aliens in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"
A crime researcher and the open-borders Cato Institute are dueling over criminal illegal aliens in Arizona. Either way, the numbers look bad for public safety.<\/span><\/p>\n John Lott, who heads the Crime Prevention Research Center<\/span><\/a> in Arlington, Va., says <\/span>illegal immigrants are \u201cat least 142 percent more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In the first in-depth analysis of criminal convictions<\/span><\/a> distinguishing between legal and illegal immigrants, Lott found that illegal aliens in the state <\/span>\u201ctend to commit more serious crimes, are more likely to be classified as dangerous and are 45 percent more likely to be gang members.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n His findings were based on newly released data on all prisoners who entered the Arizona state prison system from January 1985 through June 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n Cato<\/a><\/span> says Lott\u2019s widely cited report<\/span><\/a> overstates the extent of illegals\u2019 crimes. The libertarian policy shop, which persistently spins numbers in defense of illegal immigrants, asserts that <\/span>government data used by the researcher were off by roughly 10 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n