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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...
Multiple recent analyses converge on a clear finding: . National trend analysis shows that as the foreign-born share of the population rose from 6.2% in 1980 to 13.9% in 2022, the overall crime rate d...
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...
State driver's licenses or ID cards generally do not, by themselves, prove U.S. citizenship to federal immigration authorities; most states issue standard licenses based on identity and lawful presenc...
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...
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...
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...
The strongest peer-reviewed comparison comes from a 2020 paper in the that used arrest records to compare criminality across , legal immigrants, and U.S.-born residents and reported substantially lowe...
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-supported analyses find that —whether documented or undocumented—tend to have lower crime and incarceration rates than ; the largest, most detailed state-level st...
Recent, peer-reviewed and government-funded studies find that undocumented immigrants are arrested and incarcerated at substantially lower rates than U.S.-born citizens for violent and other felony cr...
Federal action in late September 2025 significantly tightened who may receive non‑domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs), excluding many people who previously used Employment Authorization Docu...
Research that directly compares citizens, legal non‑citizens, and undocumented -rates">immigrants—most comprehensively the study using state arrest records—finds that immigrants overall, and undocumen...
Department of Public Safety data analyzed by researchers show that, over 2013–2022, people identified as undocumented (illegal) immigrants were convicted of at a lower per‑capita rate (2.2 per 100,000...
The available, peer-reviewed and policy-focused reporting does not identify particular U.S. states as having reliably higher rates of violent crime committed by undocumented (illegal) immigrants; inst...
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-linked studies converge on the finding that , with several analyses reporting roughly a 60% lower incarceration or offending rate among immigrants. This pattern a...
Researchers compensate for the absence of fields in national arrest records by combining jurisdictional datasets that do record status, for unauthorized residents, and careful robustness checks — an a...
A broad body of recent research finds that immigrants—both lawful and undocumented—commit crimes at lower per‑capita rates than U.S.‑born residents nationally, and the best state‑level analysis (Texas...
Multiple recent, peer-reviewed and government-linked analyses find that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants in Texas studies — have lower arrest, conviction and incarceration rates than U.S...
Available reporting and peer-reviewed analyses consistently find that undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are arrested and convicted at lower rates than native‑born Americans: an NIJ‑funded Texas stud...