In this episode, we take a fact-based look at how rhetoric and data are misused in attempts to convince the public that these immigrants are violent criminals. In fact, immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, are less likely to commit violent crimes or to be found in jail. You’ll hear excerpts from my interview with Walter Ewing of the American Immigration Council on the topic, too.

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Our opening music is “Mexico City Blues II” by Los Negretes. Our closing music is A Meditation on Flight by Alpen. With interstitial music by Podington Bear. All songs are featured via a Creative Commons license.

Thanks to Bob Maynard for the idea to profile an immigrant.

Narrated and produced by Robert Stribley

Show notes:

Undocumented Immigrant Does Not Equal Violent Criminal

https://bit.ly/2FXBiwU

Further Reading

* The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States, American Immigration Council, 13 July, 2015

* Donald Trump’s False Comments Connecting Mexican Immigrants and Crime, The Washington Post, 8 July 2015

* The Rise of Federal Immigration Crimes, Pew Hispanic, 18 March, 2014