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No reliable, authoritative tally exists in the public record that counts “ in the U.S. from 2000” because the federal government does not maintain a comprehensive, national dataset linking immigration...
The best available, peer-reviewed and government-linked analyses indicate that undocumented (illegal) immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native‑born citizens, with multiple studies finding s...
Research across federal datasets and independent scholars shows that immigrants — including those in the country without authorization — are not more likely to commit crime than U.S.-born residents; m...
The balance of rigorous, peer‑reviewed research shows that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens: multiple studies using arrest and incarceration records—most no...
The best peer‑reviewed, source‑by‑source evidence available shows are arrested for sexual assault at substantially lower rates than ‑born citizens—roughly half as often in the study that directly reco...
No single, authoritative tally of how many involved noncitizen suspects can be produced from state or local law‑enforcement reports in the available reporting: national crime data published and discus...
Federal prosecutors filed 412 federal cyberstalking cases between 2010 and 2020, with filings rising to a peak of 80 cases in 2019 before a slight fall in 2020, illustrating growing federal attention ...
There is no authoritative, publicly available national tally that states exactly have been killed by people in the country unlawfully; efforts to produce single large totals (for example, viral claims...
Academic and policy research in the provided reporting shows immigrants in the U.S. — including undocumented immigrants in many studies — generally have lower incarceration, arrest, and offending rate...
Recent analyses give a mixed picture: . One media analysis places racial distribution roughly in line with population shares—53% White, 21% Black, and —but that figure comes from a single 2025 compila...
Available reporting and academic studies consistently find that immigrants — including unauthorized immigrants — commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens; a Texas-based federal study found...
Federal and state data cited in 2024–2025 analyses paint a mixed picture: , while federal compilations show many noncitizens with criminal histories dispersed across states, especially in populous “sa...
Available research and databases do not support a simple tally that attributes most U.S. mass shootings cleanly to either “right wing” or “left wing” actors; many mass shootings are non‑political, the...
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-funded studies find that undocumented immigrants are not more likely to commit crimes per capita than U.S.-born citizens; several large analyses report lower arre...
Recent, multi-source analyses consistently show that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — are arrested and incarcerated at lower rates than U.S.-born residents in the datasets examined, wi...
There are no reliable, authoritative counts in the supplied reporting that answer, for calendar year 2024, citizens were killed by people classified as “illegal aliens” versus how many were killed by ...
The best available empirical research finds that undocumented immigrants commit and are arrested for serious crimes at substantially lower rates than U.S.-born citizens: across multiple studies undocu...
Research that adjusts crime or homicide rates for poverty, neighborhood, and related socioeconomic factors finds that disparities by race shrink but do not universally disappear: some studies report p...
Available sources in 2025 consistently show American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women face far higher rates of sexual violence than other U.S. racial groups: most estimates center on about 2.5 t...
Available federal and academic data do not produce a clear, state-by-state ranking of “illegal immigrant–related crimes” for 2024; U.S. Customs and Border Protection publishes counts of “criminal alie...