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Which states released 2023–2024 reports on crimes committed by noncitizens?

Checked on November 17, 2025
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Executive summary

Several federal agencies and research groups published 2023–2024 data-bearing reports that touch on crimes by noncitizens: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued “Criminal Alien” statistics for FY2023 and FY2024, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a FY2024 annual report describing interior arrests and removals of noncitizens with criminal histories, and federal sentencing and national crime datasets note numbers of non‑U.S. citizens among convicted or sentenced defendants (for example, the U.S. Sentencing Commission counted 21,304 non‑U.S. citizens among 61,678 federal cases in FY2024) [1] [2] [3] [4]. Available sources do not list a comprehensive state-by-state catalogue of 2023–2024 reports focused solely on crimes by noncitizens.

1. Federal reports that directly report “criminal noncitizen” counts

U.S. Customs and Border Protection publishes “Criminal Alien/Criminal Noncitizen” tables covering FY2023 and FY2024 that count prior convictions discovered after border apprehensions; those CBP webpages are the primary federal source for border apprehension counts of people with prior convictions [1] [2]. ICE’s FY2024 annual report also states operational totals: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) reported arresting many noncitizens with criminal convictions and issued large numbers of immigration detainers in FY2024 [3]. These federal documents are framed as administrative enforcement statistics rather than academic crime‑rate studies [2] [3].

2. National crime data and sentencing numbers give broader context

Nationwide crime reporting and sentencing datasets provide complementary perspective: the FBI’s national “Reported Crimes in the Nation” data cover all agencies’ reported offenses for 2024 but do not single out crimes by immigration status; separately, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reports the share of federal sentencing cases involving non‑U.S. citizens — it recorded 21,304 such cases in FY2024 among 61,678 total cases [5] [4]. These sources show scale at the federal level but do not equate to state reports that tabulate crimes by immigration status [5] [4].

3. State-level reporting: what the available sources do — and don’t — show

The search results do not produce a list of individual states that issued dedicated 2023–2024 reports on crimes by noncitizens. Several academic and nonprofit analyses (NIJ, PNAS, Migration Policy Institute) examine immigrant crime rates or arrest data for states such as Texas and California in prior studies, but those are research papers, not a catalogue of state government reports for 2023–2024 [6] [7] [8]. Therefore, available sources do not mention which specific states released standalone 2023–2024 state government reports focused on crimes by noncitizens.

4. Academic and policy research often contradicts simple narratives

Peer‑reviewed and NIJ‑funded research indicate undocumented immigrants have lower arrest or offending rates than U.S.-born residents in some analyses (for example, NIJ‑funded Texas analysis and a 2020 PNAS study), which complicates claims that noncitizens drive higher crime overall [6] [7]. Migration Policy Institute and other think‑tank summaries likewise report overall downtrends in crime in many jurisdictions that saw recent arrivals from the border [8]. These studies and summaries provide alternative viewpoints to enforcement‑agency tallies that focus on counts of prior convictions among border encounters [6] [7] [8].

5. Enforcement statistics reflect detection and administrative priorities, not an impartial measure of contributory crime

CBP and ICE numbers document how many noncitizens encountered by federal enforcement had prior convictions or were arrested/removed; those figures are shaped by enforcement reach, information sharing, and policy priorities (for example, ICE prioritized arresting noncitizens with criminal convictions in FY2024) [2] [3]. Such administrative tallies do not measure per‑capita offending rates among resident populations nor the underlying prevalence of crimes committed by legal versus undocumented immigrants — questions addressed by academic studies rather than enforcement reports [2] [3] [6].

6. How to find state-level reports if you need them

Because the provided search results do not list state government reports, a useful next step is to check individual state law‑enforcement or criminal‑justice agencies, state attorneys general, or state statistical offices for press releases or special reports in 2023–2024. Also consult academic repositories (NIJ, PNAS) and policy centers (Migration Policy Institute) for state‑level analyses that use arrest or incarceration records; those organizations often cite or repackage state datasets [6] [7] [8].

Limitations and takeaway: The records cited here document federal CBP and ICE reporting and national sentencing/crime datasets for 2023–2024, but the available sources do not provide a ready list of states that released 2023–2024 reports specifically about crimes committed by noncitizens; finding such state reports requires querying individual state agencies or targeted academic analyses [1] [2] [3] [4] [6].

Want to dive deeper?
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How do crime rates for noncitizens in 2023–2024 compare with citizen crime rates across states?
Which state agencies or departments issued the 2023–2024 noncitizen crime reports and are they publicly accessible?
Have any 2023–2024 state reports on noncitizen crime been revised or legally challenged since release?