The declare that unlawful immigrants commit violent crimes at a lower price than people of color continue to be parroted by the corporate press and Democrat officers. The claim is meant to drive for an open southern border, perhaps as incidences of unlawful migrants , raping,  , assaulting,  , running around, and , cruelly murdering , American children pile up.
The state ignores the fact that all illegal immigrant violence can be prevented, and it relies on misrepresenting research in ways that deceive and mislead the public.  ,
Media Misrepresents Research
Example in the media are many. According to a CNN post published soon after an illegal immigrant attacked and killed medical student Laken Riley in February, common perception of illegal immigrant crime “flies in the face of years of studies looking at what really happened after immigrants arrived in communities across the US.”
According to CNN Senior Writer Catherine E. Shoichet,” Some experts crunching the numbers have discovered there is no link between immigration and crime.” Some researchers have also found that people who were born in the US are less likely to undertake crimes.
The post directs readers to a previous CNN post that included a report on a liberal think tank called the Cato Institute. According to the study, which was conducted by policy expert Alex Nowrasteh, unlawful immigrants were detained for and found guilty of violent acts less frequently than native-born Americans in Texas in 2015. As Shoichet claimed, the research did not evaluate real acts or rule out any possible link between immigration and crime.  ,
Research has shown, however, that imprisonment and faith files are not enough proxy for how frequently crime is committed.  , Additionally, the study’s use of Texas Department of Public Safety ( TDPS) data has faced backlash from scholars who say Nowrastesh was “misusing data” in a way that led” to erroneous conclusions about illegal immigrant crime rates”.
According to Center for Immigration Studies ( CIS ) researchers Sean Kennedy, Jason Richwine, and Steven A. Camarota,” Studies that purport to show low illegal immigrant crime rates in Texas fail to take into account the fact that illegal immigrants are not always identified right away after being arrested.” ” In many cases, illegal immigrants are identified only after they are imprisoned”.
When using reliable data, the research comes to the conclusion that unlawful immigrants “have above average conviction rates for crime and intimate assault.”  ,
The Cato Institute’s research’s main deficiencies did not prevent several other publications, including Yahoo News, from citing it as “proof” that illegal immigrant crime is lower than normal.
According to USA Today, “research suggests immigrants really commit fewer offences than people born in the U.S. S”. in a March content, citing the Cato Institute review. Additionally, the article cited a study conducted by University of Wisconsin psychologist Michael Light.  ,
Sun’s use of TDPS information also fails to stand up to scrutiny.  ,
” ]Light ] makes the same mistake as Nowrasteh in treating fugitives as fully identified by DHS at eating, even though DCJ will go on to discover more fugitives who are initially placed in the DPS ‘ other/unknown’ category”, wrote CIS experts. ” Unlike Nowrasteh, Lighting therefore relies on unsubstantiated claims made by arrestees about their membership and place of birth to both supplement the’ lawful’ arrest category and make a’ native-born’ category” . ,
The University of Wisconsin study was also mentioned in articles published this year by NewsNation, AP News, and ABC News.
NPR echoed the assertion in a March article that referenced the inaccurate Cato Institute study and, oddly, a Stanford study that evaluated immigrants in general rather than specifically addressing illegal immigrants. The study was similarly used in articles published earlier this year by AP News and Newsweek.  ,
NPR also referenced a 2019 Marshall Project article and a 2018 New York Times article, both by reporter Anna Flagg.  ,
The Marshall Project articles incorporated research from the Cato Institute and a study from SUNY Buffalo sociologist Robert Adelman, both of which evaluated immigrants in general and did not limit the scope to illegal immigrants. Flagg indicates Adelman’s team is conducting further research on “unauthorized immigration” that has produced “early results” but does not provide data.  ,
Flagg also created regression models using estimates from Pew Research regarding illegal migrant populations. Regression models, by nature, cannot answer questions of causation. They show correlation, whether two variables move in the same direction, but cannot demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship.  ,
However, the data she compiles consistently indicates that a higher number of illegal migrant deaths is related to higher murder rates, which Flagg readily refutes as” small and uncertain ( effectively zero )”.
Flagg’s article in the Times uses the same SUNY Buffalo research. The article quotes Trump stating” sanctuary cities release illegal immigrants, drug dealers, traffickers, gang members back into our communities”, but reframes Trump’s concern as “immigrants bring]ing ] crime into America” (emphases added ). It is crucial to distinguish between immigrants in general and illegal immigrants.  ,
Flagg uses data that does n’t address illegal migrant crime to make a strawman argument. Multiple outlets, including CNN, the Chicago Tribune, and MSNBC, have similarly conjured up illegal migrant criminals as a way to deceive viewers and misrepresent data.  ,
Elected Officials Parrot False Claims ,
Multiple Democrat officials have misled the public into thinking that research shows that illegal immigrants commit fewer violent crimes.
Congressman Robert Garcia claimed in a press conference in February that “immigrants actually commit fewer crimes than native-born people here in this country.”  ,
Garcia’s office informed The Federalist that Garcia was referring to the Cato Institute’s research, which examines convictions rather than criminal offenses and dramatically underestimates the number of illegal immigrants. The office also sent “what]they ] found after a quick Google search”, which included the Cato Institute research, the Stanford study, and the University of Wisconsin Study, all debunked above.
In a June interview with Fox Business Correspondent Hillary Vaughn, Democrat Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said,” But as we know, the research is that undocumented immigrants commit far fewer crimes than anyone else.
Jayapal’s office sent The Federalist NPR’s article, a study erroneously using arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety, and a study including legal immigrants. The office sent two blog posts containing the previously submitted research when requested for adequate support for Jayapal’s actual claim. The office did not provide any research actually proving Jayapal’s claims.  ,
No Proof Given
Some reporters and elected officials claimed that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, but they provided no evidence to back up their claims.
J. David Goodman, a reporter for the Times, repeated the myth in a recent piece covering the brutal rape and murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, allegedly by two illegal immigrants.  ,
” ]D ] espite a number of high-profile cases, studies have found that migrants commit fewer crimes than legal residents”, Goodman wrote.  ,
The report contains no information regarding the” studies” cited. Goodman did not respond to The Federalist’s multiple requests for clarification.  ,
Vaughn also spoke with Democrat Congressman Jerry Nadler, who claimed,” The crime rate among immigrants is far lower than the crime rate among native-born Americans”. The Federalist contacted Nadler’s office for a citation but was unsuccessful in getting a response.  ,
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy made the claim again in May on the Senate floor.
” Whether you choose to want to believe the facts or not, that is not my decision, it is your decision”, Murphy said. ” But immigrants commit crimes in this country at a rate lower than natural-born citizens. You may not believe that … but I hate to tell you, it is the truth”.
Murphy’s office did not respond to The Federalist’s request for clarification.  ,
Monroe Harless is a summer intern at The Federalist. She recently earned degrees in political science and journalism from the University of Georgia.
