Migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border – AP
Trump’s RNC Speech on Migrant Crime – Alex Nowrasteh /Cato
“Illegal immigrants are less likely to be criminals than native-born Americans. The best data on this comes from the conservative border state of Texas, which is the only state to keep decent statistics on criminality by immigration status. Illegal immigrants were 37 percent less likely to be convicted of homicide in Texas than native-born Americans in 2022, the last year for which reliable data are available. Legal immigrants are 63 percent less likely to be convicted of homicide. Those patterns are similar for all crimes in the state, but those are less reliable. Immigrants are coming to the U.S., and some of them are criminals, but they are bringing less crime than if they acted like native-born Americans.”