Immigration is a top issue for voters, so it’s especially important to know the facts: undocumented immigrants are not responsible for higher crime rates. https://t.co/ofXCHEEMIf
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) July 4, 2024
Trump said that migrants are “killing our citizens at a level that we’ve never seen before.”
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) July 1, 2024
But immigrants are less likely than U.S.-born citizens to commit crimes, and undocumented immigrants have even lower crime rates than legal ones. @Morning_Joe pic.twitter.com/Oj38noB8Sr
New polling shows that an increasing number of Americans are concerned that legal immigrants to the U.S. will commit crimes. This comes amid increasingly harsh rhetoric from the GOP on immigration. https://t.co/UnTOpl4dpB
— Axios (@axios) March 29, 2024
This is a conservative think tank. https://t.co/W1pXq68O5O
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 27, 2024
The "migrant crime wave" narrative, a constant refrain on Fox News, is built around anecdotes — the network's on-air talent openly scoff at actual crime data. https://t.co/HHsITjqKV7 https://t.co/NiUqmD4XfT
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 29, 2024
Trump's claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) February 29, 2024
An NBC News review of available 2024 crime data shows overall crime levels dropping in cities that have received the most migrants.https://t.co/saOQGomNMj
Scientific American: “Undocumented Immigrants Are Half as Likely to Be Arrested for Violent Crimes as U.S.-Born Citizens” https://t.co/uRPCNCm2WF
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) February 27, 2024
Opinion: Trump stokes fear about migrants driving up crime rate, despite data debunking that https://t.co/q1yW2LWK0G
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 25, 2024
For all the talk at the RNC about "migrant crime," there actually is no migrant crime surge recently and over the long term there is no relationship between immigration and crime trends, according to statistics. @germanrlopez https://t.co/wnV0dbNO4Q pic.twitter.com/R0LFHEKmcZ
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 18, 2024
REMINDER: "research indicates that immigrants commit less crimes than US-born people"
— Brandon Richards 🐻 (@BrandonRichards) July 17, 2024
"researchers at the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank, looked into Texas…found that undocumented immigrants were 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a crime"https://t.co/T9rKTicosS
"The argument is always that Biden’s policies are to blame for these horrors. But at the most obvious level, this is absurd, because immigrants do not commit crimes at higher rates than native-born Americans do."https://t.co/UOQN4up8nc
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) June 22, 2024
Sad! 