Illegal alien advocates maintain that illegals commit fewer violent crimes and other types of felonies than citizens. HBO talk show host John Oliver recently proclaimed that statements about illegal alien crime are “bad-faith fearmongering” by Republicans and that “there is no migrant crime wave happening right now.”
The reality is that the level of illegal alien crime is difficult to determine because few jurisdictions keep comprehensive data on it. One exception is the Texas Department of Public Safety which has recorded that illegal aliens in Texas have homicide rate of 2.7 per 100,000, compared with 3.0 for natives. The advocates say this proves that illegals commit fewer violent crimes.
Border Hawk Blog disagrees. Citing an analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies, it notes that many of the people in the Texas statistics are not initially identified as illegal aliens: “[T]heir immigration status is not known or released during their initial arrest. The data indicates that once ALL the information is collected, the true number is 3.9 per 100,00, which is higher than the state average.”
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