A study by Norwegian researchers found that the older a person was when he arrived in Norway, the less likely he was to engage in criminal activity. Synøve Nygaard Andersen & Torbjørn Skardhamer, Age at Immigration and Crime: Findings for Male Immigrants in Norway 15 (Dec. 2012). The two researchers, both of whom work for Norway’s statistics agency, examined records of all male immigrants to Norway between the ages of 15 and 50 who resided there with a valid residence permit at any time between 1992 and 2007. Nygaard & Skardhamer at 7. They started with a baseline age of 15 because [...]
Record number of immigration prisoners; 715,000 people removed or returned
The Department of Homeland Security imprisoned a record number of individuals last year and upped the number of people removed or returned from the United States to over 715,000, its newly released annual report indicates. John Simanski & Lesley M. Sapp, Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2011 Annual Report (September 2012). Compiled by staffers at the department’s Office of Immigration Statistics, the Annual Report is a yearly snapshot of immigration law enforcement efforts. The total number of people removed or returned in fiscal year 2011 was 715,495. Of these, 391,953 were removed after [...]
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