Anti-immigrant Policies Could Boost Crime
December 7, 2017
12/6/17 – Recent years have seen a steady merging of efforts to deal with crime and immigration—dubbed by some scholars “crimmigration”—and in Issues a leading sociologist has examined the ill effects this has had on the nation. From another perspective, the police chief in Tucson, Arizona, recently wrote in the New York Times that the Trump administration’s “crackdown on immigrants is having a chilling effect on police-community relations” that threatens to “compromise public safety by reducing community confidence in law enforcement.”