Border security has long been a big talking point in elections, and this year is no different. But while politicians are stoking fears about crimes committed by immigrants, the data tells a far different story.
“Crime in most of the large cities that migrants are going to is down,” said Aaron Riechlin-Melnick, policy director for American Immigration Council. “Not only is there no migrant crime wave, there’s not even a crime wave.”
Border security is a big talking point this election season, not just in Arizona but across the country. Republicans like Donald Trump repeatedly point to a crime wave driven by undocumented immigrants. But research shows immigrants are actually less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.
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On Monday, dozens of agents swarmed a stretch of private land where the activists had been camped in and around a centuries-old cottonwood tree. Contractors tore down the tree and agents made multiple arrests. -
New research shows the ancient site is much older than previously thought. In fact, it’s now confirmed to be the oldest known scientifically dated geoglyph in the Americas, 2,000 years older than the first Pyramids built in Egypt. -
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls. -
Ahmed Soliman has no ties to Equatorial Guinea. The 30-year-old man was born in Egypt and brought to the United States. when he was just 4 years old. He grew up in Phoenix. Now he’s believed to be in a hospital in the African nation. -
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
