One of the left’s favorite claims to make to support illegal aliens is to claim that they are more law abiding than natural born Americans. But don’t believe this lie.
On Monday, John R. Lott Jr. jumped to the pages of RealClear Investigations to roll out the numbers to show that illegals are a crime infested group.
Lott points out that “an analysis of the available statistics by RealClear Investigations suggests that the crime rate of noncitizens is vastly understated.”
The price tag is high, too.
” A separate RCI analysis based on estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggests that crime by illegal aliens who entered the U.S. by July 21, 2024 cost the country some $166.5 billion. These criminals disproportionately entered the U.S. during the Biden administration,” Lott wrote.
Further, a large number of those who have entered the country illegally already have a criminal record back in their home country.
“ICE reported this summer that it has released 7.4 million such ‘non-detained’ noncitizens into the U.S. during the last four decades or so. ICE reports that these include 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories – 435,719 individuals with criminal convictions in their home countries and another 226,847 with pending criminal charges,” Lott said.
Lott went on to note:
In the July 21 letter to Rep. Gonzales, ICE reported that 13,099 of these non-detained individuals have convictions for homicide, with 1,845 facing criminal homicide charges. Another 9,461 have convictions for sex offenses (not including assault or commercialized sex), and 2,659 face pending charges. The convictions include other crimes such as assault (62,231), robbery (10,031), sexual assault (15,811), weapons offenses (13,423), and dangerous drugs (56,533).
These figures are only suggestive of the extent of crime because they only list the most serious crime committed by each individual. A murderer, for example, who also committed a sex offense, is only counted as a murderer. It does not include the fact that millions of migrants are violating the law because of their presence in the U.S. It also does not account for the lawbreaking involved in working without proper authorization or the widespread use of stolen Social Security numbers to secure employment.
The 662,566 convicted and likely criminals make up 9% of the 7.4 million released noncitizens.
This doesn’t even include the millions who simply crossed the border and disappeared into our country, those who are termed the “gotaways.”
There is more:
The data on migrants who have been processed also understates the problem. Criminals rarely commit just one crime. For example, from 1990 to 2002, in the 75 most populous U.S. counties, 70% of those convicted of a violent felony had a prior arrest, and 56% had a prior criminal conviction. In 2023 in Washington, D.C., the average homicide suspect had been arrested 11 times before committing a homicide. Data for 30 states shows that 60.1% of criminals released from prison in 2005 had been arrested again within two years, and 73.5% had been arrested within four years. The ICE data set provides a single entry for each individual.
Most violent crimes don’t result in an arrest, so looking at arrests or convictions in these other countries will underestimate whether illegal aliens are criminals. Across all U.S. cities in 2022, only 35.2% of violent crimes resulted in an arrest. While 50.6% of murders resulted in an arrest, just 24.1% of rapes produced an arrest, 22.7% of robberies, and 39.9% of aggravated assaults.
Lott has much more about these numbers. But, suffice to say it all tends to show that illegal aliens are rife with criminals who Joe Biden has allowed to come into the U.S. free and clear to steal from us, rape us, and murder us with abandon.
Please do click on over to Lott’s article and prepare to become enraged.
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