Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (78% confidence)
The available research consistently points in the opposite direction: undocumented immigrants show lower arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates than native-born U.S. citizens. The best-documented state-level data comes from Texas — the only state that systematically tracks crime by immigration status — and it shows undocumented immigrants arrested for felonies at roughly 400 per 100,000 versus about 1,000 per 100,000 for native-born citizens. The main caveat is that there is no comprehensi…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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