Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (88% confidence)
The preponderance of primary-source evidence — including a DOJ/NIJ-funded analysis, a PNAS peer-reviewed study using Texas administrative records, and a systematic review in the Annual Review of Criminology — finds that undocumented immigrants are arrested and convicted at substantially lower per-capita rates than native-born U.S. citizens across violent, property, and drug crimes. The Texas DPS, which maintains one of the only state datasets that links arrestees to DHS immigration-status check…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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