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For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes or be behind bars than the native-born, and high rates of immigration are associated with lower rates of violent crime and property crime.
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The presidential candidate's attempt to correlate immigration and crime is simply not supported by the facts or 100 years of data.