Argumentative Essay On Immigration And Crime

Probably the most hot button topic of the early 21st century, immigration affects economies and social structures around the world. With Donald Trump as America’s most recent president, an attitude of isolationism has shaped the minds of many. Should we allow immigrants into our country? What countries should we allow people to enter from? Many arguments that surround the aforementioned protectionist attitudes revolve around painting immigrants in a bad light. We constantly hear on the news about how immigrants commit or cause crime in the U.S. and around the world. A similar share opposes immigration because it “will cause taxes to be raised,” while only one-third of respondents are concerned that “immigrants take jobs away from the native born.” And according to the recently published article by Paolo Pinotti “Clicking on Heaven’s Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime”, “estimates place the number of undocumented …show more content…
He compared the probability of being reported for having committed a serious crime in Italy, before and after legalization, across males who applied shortly before and shortly after the cutoff. This method allows for an almost pristine regression discontinuity design—allowing Pinotti to identify the aforementioned causal effect of legal status on the number of crimes committed by immigrants in the destination country. As learned in class, the regression discontinuity method elicits the causal effects of interventions by assigning a cutoff or threshold above or below which an intervention is assigned. The unique characteristic in which regression discontinuity differs from other pre-post group designs is the method by which people in the study are assigned. In these types of designs, people are assigned to comparison groups solely on the idea of a cutoff score on a pre-program