Source: Immigration Policy Center
In their never-ending attempts to score cheap political points by demonizing unauthorized immigrants, proponents of Arizona’s
anti-immigration law (SB 1070) never miss an opportunity to perpetuate the myth that “Phoenix is the number two kidnapping capital of the world.”
Not only is this claim patently untrue, but it ignores two inconvenient facts.
First, unauthorized immigrants are themselves the primary victims of kidnappings in Phoenix. And secondly, violent crime rates in Arizona have been falling for years, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
In a new Perspectives piece and corresponding Fact Check, IPC Senior Research, Walter Ewing, dispels the kidnapping myth and argues that the root of the problem is the broken U.S. immigration system, not unauthorized immigrants.
