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I demolished @AlexNowrasteh on this claim a year ago.
I guess it's time to do it again. >>>https://twitter.com/KBrookesCato/status/1316403121833357312 …
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2/ First, note the headline "less likely to COMMIT crimes". But then read the data. It doesn't show that at all. It shows that they're less likely to be INCARCERATED. This could be due to not committing crimes ... or it could be due to fleeing over the border, or disappearing
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3/ In general, the higher the socioeconomic status of someone, the more likely they are to serve their jail time. An exec who commits a white collar crime wants to do his 4 yrs and get it over with and back to his life. He's not going to live under assumed identity for 40 yrs
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4/ Nor is he going to skip out for some de facto stateless place like Mexico or Somalia and disappear. Alex's figures don't correct for SES.
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5/ he also tries to have his cake and eat it too > most of the research on the economics of crime focuses on how higher opportunity costs lowers crime rates. In that way, increasing legal employment opportunities can lower crime while making it more difficult for >>>
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6/ > illegal immigrants to work can push some of them toward committing crimes because they’d have less to lose. if we believe this argument (and, sure, I do!), then the influx of immigrant labor, which reduces wages, pushes EXISTING CITIZENS into a state where >
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7/ lower wages means that their opportunity cost vs doing crimes drops. A factory worker making $25/hr isn't going to steal stereos. If he's knocked down to pizza delivery at $9/hr, he might.
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