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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

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Report Shores Up Mayor Walsh's Defense of Sanctuary Cities

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Monday, February 20, 2017   

BOSTON -- As President Donald Trump continues to make good on promises to deport undocumented immigrants and Mayor Marty Walsh defends Boston as a sanctuary city, a new study shows that U.S. cities with large immigrant populations experience lower rates of crime.

Four decades of evidence showed no link between immigration and increased crime, according to Robert Adelman, the study's lead author and associate professor at the State University of New York.

"For crimes like murder, robbery, burglary and larceny - as immigration increases, crime decreases on average in American metropolitan areas,” Adelman said. "We found no effect of immigration on aggravated assault."

Researchers studied census and FBI crime data in 200 metropolitan areas from 1970 to 2010.

During his presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly claimed immigrants brought crime. He has signed executive orders restricting entry into the U.S., prioritizing deportation, authorizing construction of a wall on the Mexico border, and withholding federal funds from "sanctuary cities."

Adelman said facts are critical in the current political environment, and pointed to research showing that foreign-born individuals are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. In his view, the benefits brought by immigrant populations to U.S. cities outweigh any perceived risks.

"When we think about the benefits of immigration, you can think of economic revitalization, population growth, contributing to lower rates of vacant and abandoned buildings, cultural enrichment and - with our findings, in many cases - lower levels of crime,” he said.

Adelman said he hopes the research will help policymakers make decisions based on scientific evidence, not ideologies and claims that demonize particular segments of the U.S. population without facts to back them up.


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