Analysis Disproves Liberal Narrative That Non-Citizens Commit Less Crime
“the crime rate of noncitizens is vastly understated”
This has been a favorite talking point of the left for years but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
From Real Clear Investigations:
Illegal Migrants Less Likely to Commit Crime? Guess Again.
In June, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland. Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a nine-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say he came to the U.S. illegally to escape prosecution for at least one other murder in his native El Salvador in December 2022.
“That should never have been allowed to happen,” said Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler, referring to the numerous missed red flags the case presented. His office apprehended Hernandez in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Like the member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua sentenced to life in prison last week for the murder of Laken Riley in Georgia, Hernandez’s case is shining a light on the federal government’s failure to properly vet and keep track of lawless migrants.
These gaps have led to broad claims that illegal immigrants have less involvement with the criminal justice system than native-born Americans. A review of the available data, however, shows that the criminal records of millions of migrants – the ones President-elect Trump vows to prioritize for deportation – remain unknown due to illegal crossings, lax enforcement, and lax data collection by federal and “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
In addition, an analysis of the available statistics by RealClearInvestigations suggests that the crime rate of noncitizens is vastly understated. A separate RCI analysis based on estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggests that crime by illegal aliens who entered the U.S. by July 21, 2024 cost the country some $166.5 billion. These criminals disproportionately entered the U.S. during the Biden administration.
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The trick is that while stats are available for crime rates by native-born v immigrants, they are not available for legal v illegal immigrants, let alone broken down by country of origin.
So while it’s true that immigrants as a whole have a lower crime rate than people born here, that’s consistent with legal immigrants having a very low crime rate and illegal ones having a much higher one, or with immigrants from some countries having very low crime rates, and immigrants from others having very high ones. The government doesn’t collect these stats, so it’s impossible to know for sure.
Not a liberal narrative. A coordinated leftist information operation.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Statistics – the art of manipulating questions/data to get the desired results.
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