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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A substantial body of empirical research finds that undocumented immigrants are arrested and incarcerated at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens across violent, drug, and property offenses, and that i...
Recent (2020–2025) research overwhelmingly finds that undocumented immigrants in the United States do not have higher crime rates than native-born citizens — and in several high-profile U.S. studies t...
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...
The best peer-reviewed evidence — a Texas statewide study that directly links arrest and conviction records to immigration status — finds undocumented immigrants are arrested and convicted at substant...
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-funded analyses find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates than U.S.-born citizens across major offens...
Available reporting and peer‑reviewed research do not give a single national percentage for how many undocumented immigrants have been convicted of violent crimes; multiple studies instead compare arr...
Texas saw several high-profile prosecutions and a steady stream of trafficking cases in 2021–2022, most notably the Barrett family federal/state prosecutions that produced very long sentences, while s...
Multiple major studies converge on the finding that immigrants—both legal and undocumented in many analyses—have lower rates of incarceration, arrest, and many measured felony offenses than U.S.-born ...
Major peer‑reviewed studies since 2010 consistently find that immigrants — including undocumented populations in several analyses — do not drive higher crime or incarceration rates; some large, peer‑r...
The Supreme Court has never squarely settled the modern interbranch question of who may initiate hostilities, though it has decided important cases that shape congressional and presidential war powers...