Undocumented immigrants are less crime-prone than native-born Americans, studies show

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Public policy should always be rooted in reality and guided by the facts, even if the facts are inconvenient to a desired worldview.
Reasoned, informed debates and discussions on the problem and problems of illegal immigration in the United States are all too rare, with competing factoids, anecdotes and narratives often serving to obscure the complicated reality of the