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The use of enforcement statistics to argue about immigrant crime rates
Researchers estimate versus native‑born Americans by combining administrative criminal records, population estimates and statistical adjustments to account for undercounting and selection; multiple re...
Across multiple national and state studies, —both lawful and unauthorized—are found to commit fewer crimes and have lower incarceration rates than residents; large-sample research using arrest records...
The balance of peer-reviewed and government-funded research shows that -born citizens commit crimes at higher rates per capita than undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants: multiple studies using arres...
The best available, peer-reviewed and government-backed data indicate ; in fact, multiple studies find homicide arrest and incarceration rates for immigrants are substantially lower than for the U.S.-...
Large-scale, multi-country and -focused research finds no evidence that and in many analyses immigrants—documented and undocumented—commit crime at equal or lower rates than the native-born population...