A study finds that black bears have "killed only 63 people in the United States and Canada over the last 109 years." Erica Grieder applies this statistic to the immigration debate:
Like bears, undocumented immigrants have been the culprits in some high-profile attacks, leading to a widespread view that they are, as a group, unusually dangerous. However, in both cases, an assessment of the danger is complicated by the context.
Although bear attacks have increased in recent years, it's not because they've grown bloodthirsty; it's due to increased interaction between humans and bears in remote stretches of Canada and Alaska. With undocumented immigrants, the crime rate has to be considered alongside their numbers in the population, the circumstances correlated with being an undocumented immigrant, and the level of enforcement directed at this group compared to any other.
Peter Moskos furnishes evidence that illegal immigrants have lower crime rates.
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