Immigration and Crime In The United States

By Lauren Gilbert @ 2024-12-10T17:56 (+14)

This is a linkpost to https://www.laurenpolicy.com/p/immigration-and-crime-in-the-united

This post is part of a living literature review on migration. For more information on the project, see here.

Many people believe that increasing immigration will increase crime, and therefore oppose increasing immigration.  Does it?

This post summarizes the available evidence on how immigration affects crime rates in the US. 

tldr: increased immigration has a zero-to-negative effect on crime rates in the US.