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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...