Immigration And Crime

The United States is boiling pot of different cultures and diverse ethnicities, yet the road to becoming unified as a nation is one filed with conflict and turmoil. Immigration is seen as an intrusion of the security of the nation and that immigrants take the job that citizens could have. Analyst such as Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova, who are both experienced political analyst and senior analyst respectively, from the Migration Policy Institution, which is a political think tank in favor of immigration. Immigration from Hispanics, and more specifically Mexicans has increased over the years where “As of 2013, approximately 11.6 million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States—up from 2.2 million in 1980—and Mexicans accounted for 28 percent …show more content…
Claude Fischer, a sociologist at the University of California-Berkeley. This is relevant because in terms of illegal immigration and crime is that “the general conclusion is that the higher these concentrations in a community, the lower the rates. A couple of studies find that the connection depends on the local context” (Fischer). This conclusion is a reality, since illegal immigrants have to maintain a clean record and have to be careful to not get involved with trouble, so that they do not get deported back to their country. This is true in some cases; however, when immigrants are being pushed around in crime ridden communities, they are forced to keep quiet because if the illegal immigrant reports a crime, they too will get arrested for not being a legal resident; thus, crime goes unreported. Immigration Reform will allow for immigrants to be set up as a legal resident with a lot less struggle, and this in turn, will cut away any ties of fear of being deported; thus, bringing the crime rate down even more than before. While immigration reform can bring about a dwindling of crime rates in immigrant communities and beyond, immigration reform can make jobs more accessible and increase job opportunities for immigrants and …show more content…
While the other side argues small points on how immigration reform is bad, the big picture shows that this is not the case and how an immigration reform must be supported in order to happen. Immigration is set as the foundation of the United States, where people went to escape the tyranny of the monarchy of England, yet when people from other countries such as Mexico and other Latin American countries want to immigrate to the U.S, they are stopped and shown as criminals. Until something is done about how the laws are set for immigrants and enables easier access to citizenship, this country is politically incorrect in referring to itself as the “land of