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Enforcement Records and Crime Rates

The use of enforcement records to measure crime rates among undocumented immigrants.

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Jan 11, 2026
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Which states have the highest rates of violent crime committed by illegal immigrants?

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...

Feb 4, 2026

How many people died or rape did illegals in America

Available, high-quality research and federal reporting do not provide a single, reliable national tally of how many people have been killed or raped by people who are undocumented; multiple scholarly ...

Feb 1, 2026

What data gaps remain for measuring crime among undocumented populations and how could they be closed?

is hampered by missing, mismatched, and politicized data: population denominators are estimated rather than directly observed, law-enforcement records rarely include reliable legal-status markers, and...

Feb 1, 2026

What reforms has the GAO recommended to prevent wrongful deportations of U.S. citizens?

The found that and lack consistent guidance and adequate data systems to identify and track encounters where people claim U.S. citizenship, which has contributed to of U.S. citizens, and it to reduce ...

Feb 1, 2026

How do federal enforcement 'criminal alien' conviction counts differ from per‑capita crime rates for immigrant groups?

tallies reported by agencies like and are raw counts of convictions that intersect with federal immigration enforcement and often include immigration-specific offenses, whereas per‑capita come from po...

Jan 19, 2026

How do conviction rates for immigrants compare to arrest rates across U.S. states?

Across the available, peer‑reviewed research and official compilations, immigrants—including unauthorized immigrants—are arrested and convicted at lower rates than U.S.-born people where researchers c...