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The relationship between immigrant populations and crime rates in the U.S. from 2017 to 2022, including comparisons to native-born Americans and the impact of immigration on local crime.
Claims that in the each year are committed by undocumented (illegal) immigrants are not supported by available evidence: independent fact‑checking and peer analyses find no credible national count of ...
National research and government enforcement data paint two different but compatible pictures: long-run, peer-reviewed and policy studies find immigrants—documented and undocumented—tend to have lower...
There is no reliable, authoritative figure in the open reporting that states how many Americans are “permanently separated from their families annually by the illegal aliens who murder them”; public s...
State-level research beyond generally aligns with national studies: are not associated with higher overall crime, and in many analyses immigrants—documented and undocumented—have lower arrest and conv...
crime data record Hispanic ethnicity — from historically folding Hispanics into the "white" race category toward more explicit ethnicity fields and separate reporting systems — have materially altered...
The 150‑year, multi‑institution analysis of incarceration rates finds that immigrants have never had higher incarceration rates than the and that, since about 1960, immigrants are substantially less l...
Over the past two decades a growing and increasingly rigorous body of research finds that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans, with...
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...
There is no authoritative, publicly available national tally of American citizens killed by people in the without legal immigration status; government releases and advocacy lists provide named victims...
The way is recorded—sometimes as a separate ethnic category, sometimes subsumed into racial categories like “white,” and often inconsistently across agencies—has materially altered reported racial cri...
It is not safe to say there were , because there is no authoritative national count that supports that figure and available data and expert analyses point away from such a large, provable total . Fede...
Accurately measuring in the U.S. requires combining centralized homicide databases with immigration-control records, careful case-by-case linkage, and transparent handling of missing data and biases; ...
Fact‑checkers have repeatedly found that broad viral claims asserting large numbers of deaths caused by undocumented immigrants are unsupported or false, often relying on misinterpreted statistics or ...
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...
National victimization surveys and peer‑reviewed analyses generally find that than the and that neighborhoods with higher immigrant concentrations often show equal or lower levels of violent and prope...
State-level research since 2010 has not produced a single, uniform verdict, but a clear pattern: rigorous, peer‑reviewed analyses of and data generally find — including undocumented immigrants — regis...
Methodological choices — especially which data sources researchers use, how they define and estimate "undocumented" populations, the geographic scale of analysis, and the crime categories modeled — sy...
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...
Researchers combine imperfect arrest or conviction records with independent population estimates and statistical adjustments to estimate ; where is missing from standard crime datasets they rely on sp...