How a Manhattan Institute Comparison of Immigrant Incarceration Rates Is Rhetorically Misleading

Alex Nowrasteh

Two scholars at the Manhattan Institute (MI) objected to my tweet, noting that Somalis aged 18–54 have an incarceration rate above that of other immigrant groups but below that of native-born Americans in the same age range. They did their own analysis and found that male 18–29 year old Somali immigrants who arrived age 15 or younger have a higher incarceration rate than all native-born American males and white native-born American men in the same age group. 

Both analyses are correct...