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The relationship between immigration and crime, including the methods used to measure and report immigrant crime rates.
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...
There is no single, authoritative count of “how many illegal immigrants committed felonies” because different agencies measure different populations (apprehensions, detainees, convictions, noncitizen ...
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...
DHS serves as the central aggregator and public publisher of immigration enforcement statistics while is the operational collector of arrests, detentions and removals that feed those statistics; local...
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...
Academic teams studying ICE arrests standardize comparisons across states by using shared administrative arrest records combined with population denominators (noncitizen or undocumented estimates), ap...
Official DHS and ICE publications publish the raw enforcement tables that can be used to count arrests by reported citizenship, academic projects and data aggregators have repackaged those records int...
Comparisons between undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens depend heavily on which metric is used and how data are collected: arrest counts can be shaped by policing practices and include many mino...