| Do Immigrants Make Us Safer?
Press, Eyal
New York Times Magazine, December 3, 2006, pp20-24
"The author challenges the conventional wisdom that links a spike in immigration in the US to a spike in crime. He discusses at length a study conducted by Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson, who studied crime in Chicago and concluded that the rate of violence among Mexican-Americans was significantly lower than among both non-Hispanic whites and blacks." Eyal Press is a contributing writer for the 'Nation' and the author of "Absolute Conviction: My Father, A City and a Conflict that Divided America."
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