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How Obama's Immigration moves could lower crime rates

Cindy Arnson

Latin American Program Director Cynthia Arnson is quoted in this article on President Obama's immigration moves and crime prevention.

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Cynthia J. Arnson, director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, believes the data will help fight crime and strengthen national security.

“The benefit is that there aren’t millions of people living in the shadows, these people come forward, they have documents, we know who they are, where they live, whether they’re contributing to the IRS, whether they have driver’s licenses,” she said. “I just think it’s much better to have faces and individuals who are known rather than constantly trying to evade law enforcement.”

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Cindy Arnson

Cynthia J. Arnson

Distinguished Fellow, Latin America Program
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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more