Stats I hadn't seen before for $100, Alex

Feb 27, 2007 18:31

Ignore the completely deceptive URL.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/Friend_Idol_friend_not_racy_pics_model/20070227-084419-7794r/

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A study finds immigrants to the United States have a significantly lower crime rate than those born in the country.

Ruben Rumbaut, a sociologist at the University of California at Irvine, and Walter Ewing of Harvard used figures from the 2000 census. He found that 3.5 percent of U.S.-born men aged 18 to 39 were behind bars in 2000, five times the rate for foreign-born men, The Orange County Register reported.
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