Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (90% confidence)
Multiple independent primary-source studies — using official arrest, conviction, and incarceration data — consistently find the opposite: undocumented immigrants are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at substantially lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens. The most rigorous single-state study (Texas, which uniquely tracks immigration status at arrest) found undocumented immigrants arrested at less than half the rate of native-born citizens for violent and drug crimes, and one-quarter th…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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