Crimes by Illegal Aliens, Not Legal Immigrants, are the Real Problem
Jun 4th, 2017 3 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Hans A. von Spakovsky
The criminal histories of 251,000 criminal aliens showed that they had committed close to three million criminal offenses.
A story published by The Hill last month about two studies claiming that “immigrants commit less crime than U.S. born citizens†misses the point that President Trump and other Americans are concerned over the crimes committed by illegal aliens, not legal immigrants. And the existing records on those crimes, like the murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco in 2015, are truly shocking.
Ronald Mortensen points out some of the methodological problems with these studies in his recent piece in The Hill. But the problems are even worse. The Cato study concluded that “legal and illegal immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated than natives†and the Sentencing Project concluded in their report that “foreign-born residents of the United States commit crime less often than native-born citizens.â€
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/crimes-illegal-aliens-not-legal-immigrants-are-the-real-problem
