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17Mar By SHOAHNo Comments
USA

Immigrants Commit Fewer Crimes Than US-Born Population

NOVANEWS People hold up signs before marching to Trump Tower during a protest organized by the New York Immigration Coalition against President Trump in New York City. | Photo: Reuters. Donald Trump continues to blame immigrants for crime despite mounting evidence that immigrants commit less crimes than those born in the U.S. A new study proves that immigrants actually commit far fewer crimes than people born in the United States, further debunking the myth pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump about immigrants and crime. RELATED: How Marx’s Crisis Theory Explains Growing Anti-Immigrant Hate The report, released by The Sentencing Project, drew on survey data analyzing 40,000 immigrants from countries around the world currently living in the United States, age 1...
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15Feb By SHOAHNo Comments
Human Rights, USA

ICE Arrests 600 in Nationwide Raids After Trump Order Expands Criminalization of Immigrants

NOVANEWS By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!  Immigrant communities across the country are on edge after federal immigration agents arrested over 600 people in the past week in the largest raids since Donald Trump became president. Raids were reported in at 11 states, including California, New York, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin. On Sunday, Trump tweeted, "The crackdown on illegal criminals is merely the keeping of my campaign promise. Gang members, drug dealers & others are being removed!" Immigrant rights activists say the actions signal a clear shift by the Trump administration to deport people who were considered a "low priority" for removal under President Obama. We speak to California s...
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