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Rubén G. Rumbaut, et al.
"The past few decades have seen the confluence of two eras in the United States: an era of mass immigration and an era of mass imprisonment. A great deal has been said and written about each, reinforcing age-old popular stereotypes about immigration and crime (a Google search for "immigration +crime" immediately returns 57.2 million hits). But rarely are carefully researched connections made between the two, based on rigorous evidence."
[Originally published on the Migration Information Source (www.migrationinformation.org), a project of the Migration Policy Institute. Editor's note: The data in the first two columns of Table 3 have been corrected. Our deepest regrets for the error.]