Few Immigrants among Capitol Insurrectionists

Alex NowrastehAs of February 1, 2021, a  total of 217 people have been arrested or charged with participating in the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Many more people will be arrested and charged in the coming months, but it’s worth looking at the demographics of this group to better understand what happened.Newresearch by professors Robert A. Pape and Keven Ruby present the age, employment status, and other demographic characteristics of the mob that attacked the Capitol. However, Pape and Ruby left out one key demographic variable: nativity. How many of the rioters were foreign ‐​born?To fill this gap, my intern Devin Thompson and I  have usedDepartment of Justice information,District of Columbia arrest records, and numerousothersources to list the names of those arrested or charged so far and whether they are immigrants or native ‐​born Americans. If those documents did not reveal the nativity, we looked at their social media accounts and news stories. Their names and the sources for each individual are available upon request.We recorded 217 people arrested or charged with the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Of those, 209 were native ‐​born Americans and 8 were immigrants (Figure 1). In other words, native‐​born Americans comprised 96.3 percent of the attackers and immigrants were 3.7 percent. The few immigrants came from a wide range of countries. Two were from Moldova and one each were from Lebanon, Ethiopia, Georgia , Japan, Vietnam, and...
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