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debating immigration, after new research shows that immigrants in California are far less likely than U.S. born Californians are to commit crime
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008

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  • Professor DANIEL MEARS
  • a University of Florida criminologist, on debating immigration, after new research shows that immigrants in California are far less likely than U.S.-born Californians are to commit crime
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