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"Contradictory" claims can coexist if you understand border security problems

By Gritsforbreakfast

Since I've been particularly focused on the border this week, it's fitting that the House State Affairs and House Corrections Committees yesterday held a joint hearing on immigration and the justice system at the University of Texas at Dallas, reports the Dallas News ("Conflicting data on crime, immigration presented at legislators' public hearing," Feb. 2; n.b., There's no video online and since the hearing wasn't in Austin, I don't know if there will be.)I'd need to hear the testimony or read the studies to know for sure, but I don't think I agree with reporter Diana Solis that the research presented by opposing sides was "contradictory." She wrote:Legislators were presented with two contradictory studies on crime and immigration. One study, co-authored by Ruben Rumbaut of the University of California at Irvine, looked at incarceration rates among young men and showed those rates to be the lowest for immigrants, even those who are the least educated...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).