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Why Do Immigrant Neighborhoods Have Low Crime Rates?
Date: March 6, 2015 at 10:13 am
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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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