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