What the media tell you about illegal-immigrant crime is plain wrong

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : This is true of immigrants even in the South and outside big cities, where cooperation with ICE is most common.
54% :Of course, whatever the illegal-immigrant crime rate might be, it's always the case that by cooperating with ICE, local jurisdictions both enhance public safety and aid the important national goal of enforcing immigration laws.
47% : Any local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement will keep immigrants from reporting crimes out of fear of being deported -- or so the argument goes.
44% : There's simply no indication local cooperation with ICE leads to less immigrant-crime reporting.
43% : Perhaps most important, the relative crime rate of the illegal-immigrant population is never a reason for local jurisdictions to spurn cooperation with ICE by releasing arrested illegal immigrants before the feds can pick them up.
40% : And noncooperation with ICE endangers public safety and makes a mockery of our immigration laws.
37% : We do know that noncitizens, a large share of whom are illegal immigrants, represent a disproportionate share of federal offenders, but it's not clear whether this is true at the state and local levels, where most law enforcement takes place.
36% : In fact, the evidence that illegal immigrants have lower crime rates than people born in America and the idea that immigrants don't report crimes for fear of ICE are likely wrong.
29% : The argument against local law enforcement cooperating with ICE is that immigrants are reluctant to report crimes if they fear deportation.

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