Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?
A lot of research has shown that there’s no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States. But after one such study was reported on jointly by
The Marshall Project and
The Upshot last year, readers had one major complaint: Many argued it was unauthorized immigrants who increase crime, not immigrants over all.
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The article makes reference to Texas, trying to say that illegal alien crime is no big deal. The following actual stats show that illegal alien crime makes a big difference, especially against those that the crimes are perpetrated against. 306,000 crimes in 8 years, that's over 38,000 crimes per year. It is a real problem that needs to be dealt with.
According to DHS status indicators, over 289,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and April 30, 2019, of which over 196,000 were classified as illegal aliens by DHS.
Between June 1, 2011 and April 30, 2019, these 196,000 illegal aliens were charged with more than 306,000 criminal offenses which included arrests for 556 homicide charges; 33,816 assault charges; 5,888 burglary charges; 38,601 drug charges; 426 kidnapping charges; 16,387 theft charges; 24,402 obstructing police charges; 1,711 robbery charges; 3,611 sexual assault charges; 4,826 sexual offense charges; and 3,083 weapon charges. DPS criminal history records reflect those criminal charges have thus far resulted in over 124,000 convictions including 254 homicide convictions; 14,100 assault convictions; 3,258 burglary convictions; 18,445 drug convictions; 179 kidnapping convictions; 7,259 theft convictions; 11,602 obstructing police convictions; 1,037 robbery convictions; 1,783 sexual assault convictions; 2,406 sexual offense convictions; and 1,325 weapon convictions.
These figures only count individuals who previously had an encounter with DHS that resulted in their fingerprints being entered into the DHS IDENT database. Foreign nationals who enter the country illegally and avoid detection by DHS, but are later arrested by local or state law enforcement for a state offense will not have a DHS response in regard to their lawful status and do not appear in these counts.
TxDPS - Texas Criminal Alien Arrest Data