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Opponents of immigration love to claim that illegal immigrants cause a disproportionate number of deadly car crashes, especially DUIs.
But the numbers don’t lie. A brand-new Cato Institute analysis of 2010–2019 data shows no statistical relationship at all between the share of undocumented immigrants in a state/metro and drunk-driving deaths.
Even more: studies suggest undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit DUIs compared to citizens—because the stakes are higher for them. Other research has found that counties with higher undocumented populations often see lower DUI arrest rates and no increase in fatal accidents.
From the link:
So when someone throws out the “they’re disproportionately killing Americans on the road” claim, they’re either misinformed or deliberately fear-mongering. Cato’s own numbers (not exactly a left-wing source) completely wreck that narrative.
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We find no statistically significant evidence to suggest that people who live in states or metropolitan statistical areas with higher illegal immigrants shares of the population are more at risk for drunk driving deaths. Of course, there are individual instances to the contrary and those illegal immigrants who are guilty of DUIs or DWIs or who inflict death or injury while driving drunk should be punished according to the law. However, the mere presence of illegal immigrants does not appear to affect the overall drunk driving death rate. Although our regression results are correlative and not causal in nature, they suggest that illegal immigrants do not affect overall drunk driving deaths.
Source: Cato Institute – Drunk Driving Deaths and Illegal Immigration
But the numbers don’t lie. A brand-new Cato Institute analysis of 2010–2019 data shows no statistical relationship at all between the share of undocumented immigrants in a state/metro and drunk-driving deaths.
Even more: studies suggest undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit DUIs compared to citizens—because the stakes are higher for them. Other research has found that counties with higher undocumented populations often see lower DUI arrest rates and no increase in fatal accidents.
From the link:
So when someone throws out the “they’re disproportionately killing Americans on the road” claim, they’re either misinformed or deliberately fear-mongering. Cato’s own numbers (not exactly a left-wing source) completely wreck that narrative.
Excerpt:
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We find no statistically significant evidence to suggest that people who live in states or metropolitan statistical areas with higher illegal immigrants shares of the population are more at risk for drunk driving deaths. Of course, there are individual instances to the contrary and those illegal immigrants who are guilty of DUIs or DWIs or who inflict death or injury while driving drunk should be punished according to the law. However, the mere presence of illegal immigrants does not appear to affect the overall drunk driving death rate. Although our regression results are correlative and not causal in nature, they suggest that illegal immigrants do not affect overall drunk driving deaths.
Source: Cato Institute – Drunk Driving Deaths and Illegal Immigration
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