Abstract
Whether one focuses on criminal convictions, arrests, or the number of individuals convicted or arrested, the results are the same - illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans in Texas. Legal immigrants have the lowest rates of all, except for some measures of property crime where illegal immigrants are even less crime prone. Native-born Americans living in Texas have the highest criminal conviction and arrest rates in all of the figures above. Even on the margin, there is no statistically significant effect of the illegal immigrant population on the rate of criminal convictions, either overall or for illegal immigrants specifically.
Andrew C. Forrester
Economist and Statistician in Washington, DC
Economist and statistician in Washington, DC working on economic statistics, labor and financial economics, time series and seasonal adjustment, and quantitative demography. All views are my own.