FACT!
Trump claims that immigrants are responsible for an increase in crime levels and that “migrants are killing our citizens at a level that we’ve never seen before.”
In fact, both of his accusations are untrue.
There is actually a decrease in crime levels:
- Between 2020 and 2024, the violent crime rate fell by 26%
- Violent crime rates are lower than they’ve been over the last 15 years
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than citizens born in the US:
- Citizens born in the US commit violent crimes at a 14.6% higher rate than legal immigrants
- US-born citizens commit violent crimes at more than twice the rate of undocumented immigrants
- This is true for property crime and drug violations as well
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Source: Steven Rattner