{"id":347121,"date":"2018-02-07T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-illegal-immigrants-dont-commit-more-crimes\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T03:02:09","slug":"presstv-us-illegal-immigrants-dont-commit-more-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-illegal-immigrants-dont-commit-more-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US \u2018illegal\u2019 immigrants don\u2019t commit more crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Most of Americans do not support construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border while the majority do not believe that immigrants commit more crimes than US citizens, a poll shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite US President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign against immigrants since his 2016 victory, a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found that 72 percent of Americans do not think &#8220;undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than American citizens do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, 13 percent of Americans think otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 63 percent do not believe that &#8220;undocumented immigrants take jobs away&#8221; from citizens, while 33 percent think that is the case.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted from February 2-5 with a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points, the Quinnipiac poll results were released at a time of ongoing debates in US Congress about immigration, which could potentially cause a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the voters, meanwhile, oppose the construction of Trump\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/07\/551514\/US-illegal-immigrants-dont-commit-more-crimes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of Americans do not support construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border while the majority do not believe that immigrants commit more crimes than US citizens, a poll shows. Despite US President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign against immigrants since his 2016 victory, a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found that 72 percent of Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}