It is pretty racist to attack one group for the behaviors that their children will eventually commit though.
Criminality going up for the US-born children of immigrants indicates there's a problem with US society, not immigrants themselves.
Maybe there is a politer way of saying that but I just find the "they commit less crimes" assertion that is presented in some articles to be very misleading. It gives the impression that hispanic migrants are turning american cities into safer places, when, in the long run it just isn't the case.
Many of these studies conflate illegals with legals, hispanics with asians/indians and also rely on somewhat bad data as data on illegals isn't as good as data on citizens. They also point out that crime is dropping, and if you make a simple correlation you can see that crime has lowered in areas where the hispanic population is growing, it makes for a nice graph.
However, crime went down in the US as a whole if you compare to 1990. It is the case in diverse areas, in homogeneous areas, in republican areas, in democratic areas. Regardless, the data doesn't lie that hispanics commit more crimes, hispanics with few exceptions are immigrants or children of recent immigrants and thus without hispanic immigrants crime would be even lower.
It is not some crisis, the rates are still much lower than in Latin America, they're not absurdly high in absolute terms but I get a bit frustrated when I read such reports talking about immigrants and crime.
About it being a problem of US society, that can be the case, but it can also be a problem with the parents. One can easily say many of them just commit less crimes because they're afraid of getting deported and once they have citizenship they behave improperly.
