Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (88% confidence)
Multiple independent primary-source studies and peer-reviewed research consistently found that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born U.S. citizens across violent, property, and drug offenses. The most directly comparable data — a peer-reviewed PNAS study using Texas arrest records from 2012–2018 — found that U.S.-born citizens were over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely for drug crimes, and over 4 times more like…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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