Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Multiple independent peer-reviewed studies and official government data consistently show the opposite: undocumented immigrants are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at substantially lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens. The most comprehensive study of undocumented immigrants specifically — using Texas DPS data from 2012–2018, published in PNAS — found undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born citizens for violent and drug crimes, and at roughly on…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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