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The relationship between undocumented immigration and violent crime rates in the United States.
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 question as posed is ambiguous — it could mean “ have been committed by people who are undocumented” or “how many undocumented people have themselves been killed” — and there is no single, reliabl...
A precise, verifiable count of how many by people without lawful immigration status over the past four years is not available in the reporting provided; the sources include academic reviews, advocacy ...
There is no reliable, authoritative national count of how many U.S. citizens were killed by undocumented immigrants in 2025; major fact‑checks and researchers say the does not compile nationwide stati...
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...
There is no authoritative, publicly available national tally that states exactly have been killed by people in the country unlawfully; efforts to produce single large totals (for example, viral claims...
There are no reliable, authoritative counts in the supplied reporting that answer, for calendar year 2024, citizens were killed by people classified as “illegal aliens” versus how many were killed by ...
A large and growing body of empirical research finds that are not more likely to commit violent crimes than and, in many datasets, have substantially lower violent‑crime arrest and incarceration rates...
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 available, peer-reviewed and policy-focused reporting does not identify particular U.S. states as having reliably higher rates of violent crime committed by undocumented (illegal) immigrants; inst...
There is no authoritative national count in the provided reporting that states how many citizens were victims of crimes specifically perpetrated by people who were in the country unlawfully; the data ...
There is no reliable, nationwide count of how many women and children are violently murdered each year specifically by people without legal status; multiple fact‑checks and research reviews state that...
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...
The public record does not supply a definitive, nationwide list of cities ranked by the proportion of arrests or convictions that involve immigrants in the 2020s; instead, federal and advocacy dataset...
A consistent body of empirical research finds that — including undocumented/illegal immigrants where data permit — are not more likely to commit violent crimes than and in many studies are substantial...
Multiple empirical studies — most notably a detailed arrest-data analysis published in and summarized by the — find that are arrested at substantially lower rates than native‑born citizens and general...
Peer‑reviewed empirical studies and government‑funded analyses consistently find that have lower measured homicide arrest rates and lower than , and that increases in immigrant populations are not lin...
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...
A clear majority of recent, peer‑reviewed and government‑funded studies find that undocumented (commonly termed “illegal”) immigrants are less likely to be arrested for violent crimes than ‑born citiz...
Available, high-quality research and federal reporting do not provide a single, reliable national tally of how many people have been killed or raped by people who are undocumented; multiple scholarly ...