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Research on the relationship between immigration and crime rates in Texas, with findings indicating lower crime rates among undocumented immigrants compared to native-born citizens.
No reliable, authoritative tally exists in the public record that counts “ in the U.S. from 2000” because the federal government does not maintain a comprehensive, national dataset linking immigration...
The best available, peer-reviewed and government-linked analyses indicate that undocumented (illegal) immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native‑born citizens, with multiple studies finding s...
The best peer‑reviewed, source‑by‑source evidence available shows are arrested for sexual assault at substantially lower rates than ‑born citizens—roughly half as often in the study that directly reco...
The strongest peer-reviewed comparison comes from a 2020 paper in the that used arrest records to compare criminality across , legal immigrants, and U.S.-born residents and reported substantially lowe...
The best available reporting and state-level estimates point to Texas and Florida as the states that experienced the largest increases in unauthorized (undocumented) immigrant populations in the recen...
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...
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-funded analyses find that commit s and other violent crimes at substantially lower rates than , with studies using arrest data and national reviews showing undocu...
, as analyzed by multiple researchers, show that undocumented (often labeled “illegal”) immigrants have lower homicide conviction and arrest rates than native‑born Americans: found a 2013–2022 of 2.2 ...
State-level studies centered on Texas—the only state that systematically links arrest and conviction records to DHS immigration-status responses—consistently find that undocumented immigrants are arre...
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...