Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (88% confidence)
Multiple peer-reviewed studies using official government crime data — including Texas DPS records, Maricopa County booking data, and Bureau of Justice Statistics figures — consistently find that undocumented immigrants are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens, not higher. The most direct study, published in PNAS (2020) using Texas data from 2012–2018, found native-born citizens are more than twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 ti…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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