Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (78% confidence)
The best available evidence runs against this claim. Multiple peer-reviewed studies and state-level administrative data find that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born citizens, not higher. No national primary-source dataset directly measures crime rates by undocumented status, but the studies that can identify immigration status in administrative records consistently point in the opposite direction from what the claim asserts.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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