Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (82% confidence)
The preponderance of peer-reviewed studies and federally funded research consistently finds the opposite: undocumented immigrants have lower arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates than native-born U.S. citizens across the crime categories studied. A Texas study using DHS-linked state criminal history data found native-born citizens were more than twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes and over four times as likely to be arrested for property crimes. No authoritative national dat…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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