Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (88% confidence)
The peer-reviewed evidence consistently shows the opposite: undocumented immigrants have substantially lower felony arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates than native-born U.S. citizens. The strongest direct comparison — a 2020 PNAS study using Texas arrest records — found native-born citizens were arrested at more than twice the rate of undocumented immigrants for violent and drug felonies. No primary-source national dataset or peer-reviewed study locates higher crime rates among undocume…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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