Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (90% confidence)
The documented evidence — from peer-reviewed studies, NIJ-funded research, the Cato Institute, and state-level administrative data — consistently runs in the opposite direction of this claim. Undocumented immigrants are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at substantially lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens across violent, drug, and property crime categories. No primary-source study or official dataset was found supporting the claim as stated.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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