- Description
This brief uses American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau to analyze incarcerated immigrants according to their citizenship and legal status for 2016. The data show that all immigrants—legal and illegal—are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born Americans relative to their shares of the population.
- Published by
- Cato Institute
- Funded by
- Charles Koch Foundation
- Issue areas
- Crime and Safety
- Immigration
- Document type
- Issue/Policy Brief
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Language
- English
- Copyright
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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- Title
- Incarcerated Immigrants in 2016: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin
- Publication date
- 2018-06-04
- Publication year
- 2018
- Authors
- Alex Nowrasteh , Michelangelo Landgrave
- Copyright holder(s)
- Cato Institute
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Keywords
- immigrants, incarceration, illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, illegal
- Document type
- Issue/Policy Brief
- Language
- English
- URL
- https://immigrationstrategies.issuelab.org/resource/incarcerated-immigrants-in-2016-their-numbers-demographics-and-countries-of-origin.html
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