A Harvard psychologist started #immigrantexcellence to combat myth that immigrants and refugees are dangerous
Mina Cikara, an assistant professor in psychology, and Joel E. Martinez, a graduate student at Princeton, launched the hashtag #immigrantexcellence with an invitation to fellow immigrants to share stories of their contributions to the United States. Initially, she did it in response to the news (earlier in the week) that the Trump administration would be publishing a weekly list to “make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens,” as a Trump executive order reads.
A reminder that a recent report based on decades of research by the Immigration Policy Center showed that immigrants in the US are less likely to commit crime than native-born Americans.
