Fact-check: “Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens”
Verdict: False (87% confidence)
Multiple independent primary-source analyses — including a peer-reviewed PNAS study using Texas Department of Public Safety records linked to DHS immigration-status checks (2012–2018) and a Cato Institute analysis of Texas incarceration data (2010–2024) — consistently found that undocumented immigrants have lower arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates than native-born U.S. citizens across violent, property, and drug crime categories. No peer-reviewed study or government statistical publica…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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