Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (82% confidence)
The available primary-source evidence — most directly the Texas Department of Public Safety records (the only major U.S. jurisdiction that systematically tracks crime by immigration status) and national incarceration data — consistently shows that undocumented immigrants are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens, not higher. An NIJ-funded study using Texas DPS records from 2012–2018 found undocumented immigrants were arrested at less than half the r…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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