Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (78% confidence)
The best available primary-source evidence — including a National Institute of Justice-funded study using Texas criminal records (2012–2018) that directly compared undocumented immigrants to native-born citizens — found that undocumented immigrants were arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes, and at roughly one-quarter the rate for property crimes. No national crime series (FBI NIBRS, BJS) collects immigration status for offenders, meaning n…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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