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- gender
- sentencing
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- Immigration
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- Cross-cutting: U.S. –Mexico and Latin America: Social and Behavioral Issues
- gender/sexuality
- U.S.-Mexico border
- quantitative
- structural inequality
- Latinxs
- Education for the 21st Century Demographic
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Department: Criminal Justice
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- Cross-cutting: U.S.-Mexico and Latin America: Social and Behavioral Issues
Date: March 6, 2015 at 10:13 am

Originally published March 6, 2015By Lisa Y. GaribayIn today's oft-heated debate over immigration policy in the United States, many argue that arrivals from other countries have a negative impact on the country and even contribute to rising crime rates. At The University of Texas at El Paso, a team of researchers is working with new data to prove that, in fact, the opposite is true.Over the past year, 50 UTEP student researchers worked alongside three professors to create a methodologically so....
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