@Shwa If you're referring to the same CATO study that I'm thinking of, it's totally fabricated. They used self-reporting data. So, they asked immigrants. "hey bro do you do crime?" and the immigrants said, "nope no crime here" and CATO was like, "seeeeee?"
That being said, I believe data does show that immigrants do commit less crime. This does work against us in the way it might seem at first.
Immigrants have lower crime rates because (1) the ones that do commit serious crimes get deported, and (2) they are less likely to commit crime in the first place because of the fear of deportation. In other words, immigrant crime is low precisely *because* we have immigration laws in this country.
This can be proven by comparing the US to countries that don't have as strict immigration laws. For example, in Sweden, immigrants actually commit significantly *more* crime than natives, because that same fear of deportation doesn't exist and because they just kinda let anyone come in.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764?ocid=socialflow_twitter
