The Washington Post’s “fact checker” recently claimed that President Trump was wrong when he stated that illegal aliens are more prone to crime than natives. The “fact checker” said that “The majority of the research continues to show that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. . . .”
The slight-of-hand employed here is to conflate illegal aliens with legal immigrants in the category “immigrants.” While research generally shows that legal immigrants are on average more law-abiding than natives. This should not be surprising because legal entrants are vetted for criminal backgrounds. Illegal aliens. of course, aren’t vetted. Much evidence indicates that illegal aliens are more crime-prone than citizens.
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