We find that immigrants worked with police on more than 5 million crimes from 2017 to 2023, resulting in at least half a million arrests (only includes arrests within 6 months, known to the victim). Immigrants were helping law enforcement before the mass deportation crackdown.
We can see that police requesting legal status more frequently for immigrants through the U visa program. Notice the upward trend stopped under Trump 1.0, restarted under Biden, and unfortunately, it’s reasonable to expect a catastrophic change now…
That’s because the Trump administration is trying to deport immigrants who report crimes. This is perhaps the most evil and counterproductive component of Trump’s mass deportation plan: if you care about stopping crime, you want immigrants to help!
Let's try to stop all violent crime because violent crime represents the most severe violation of someone’s rights. And it’s exactly for this reason that we should oppose mass deportation. It’s not just taking resources off the target: it’s only adding to the rights’ violations.
READ AND SHARE THE WHOLE PAPER HERE: www.cato.org/policy-analy...