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Comparison of crime rates between immigrants and U.S.-born residents
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 ...
analyzed data and concluded that are incarcerated at substantially higher rates than citizens and lawful residents—reporting averages of roughly three times higher and as much as five times higher in ...
Across a broad set of academic and policy studies through 2025, -and-crime-rates-2025">undocumented immigrants as a group are not associated with higher crime rates than residents, and jurisdictions w...
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...
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...
Research across government and independent organizations shows that and incarcerated at lower rates than U.S.-born residents, though high-profile violent incidents and uneven data collection fuel poli...
’s “criminal alien” tallies are raw enforcement counts that record persons intercepted by who have one or more prior convictions (including convictions abroad) and list types of convictions without ca...
Researchers estimated offending rates for by using ’s unique arrest records—DPS case-level data that include immigration-status indicators returned from —counting felony arrest charges between 2012 an...
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 a wide set of academic and policy studies, — including unauthorized immigrants — are consistently found to have lower rates of offending, arrest, conviction, and incarceration than residents; e...
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...