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Immigrants are less crime prone that native-born Americans

“Individual neurons whose synapses are most likely to strengthen in response to a certain experience are more likely to connect to certain partner neurons, while those whose synapses weaken in response to a similar experience are more likely to connect to other partner neurons,” Friedlander said. “The neurons whose synapses do not change at all in response to that same experience are more likely to connect to yet other partner neurons, forming a more stable but non-plastic network.”

I don’t find a lot of common ground with the libertarian Cato Institute, but I salute their honest reporting of research findings on immigrant-committed versus home-grown American crime:

“Both the Census-data driven studies and macro-level studies find that immigrants are less crime-prone than natives with some small potential exceptions.”

https://www.cato.org/blog/immigration-crime-what-research-says 

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