Six years after the federal government opened an immigration
enforcement program intended to improve public safety, deporting hundreds of
thousands of people, many of them convicted criminals, a new study has
concluded that the program has had “no observable effect on the overall crime
rate.”
The finding “calls into question the longstanding assumption
that deporting noncitizens who commit crimes is an effective crime-control
strategy,” said the study, conducted by two law professors at the University of
Chicago and New York University.
