Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (85% confidence)
The best available direct evidence — Texas administrative records linking arrestees to DHS immigration-status files, analyzed in peer-reviewed studies published in PNAS and funded by DOJ's National Institute of Justice — consistently shows undocumented immigrants are arrested and convicted at substantially lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens across violent, property, and drug crimes. The primary limitation is that no single national database tracks crime by immigration status, so the Tex…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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