Trump's Department of Justice deletes link to study showing undocumented immigrants commit less crime than US citizens

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Source: The Independent

Monday 10 March 2025 23:07 EDT


The Trump administration appears to have deleted a Justice Department web page describing a study that concluded undocumented immigrants in Texas commit notably less crime than U.S. citizens, a finding that contradicts the White House’s frequent descriptions of such migrants as violent criminals.

“Sometime in the last week, the DOJ removed this from its website,” immigration expert David Bier of the Cato Institute wrote on X. “Wonder why?” The Independent has contacted the Department of Justice for comment. The National Institute of Justice web page, titled, “Undocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Lower Than U.S.-Born Citizen Rate,” described a study the institute funded in Texas, scrutinizing crime data between 2012 and 2018.

The study, preserved elsewhere in House of Representatives records, found that undocumented people were arrested at half the rate of native-born citizens for violent and drug crimes, and a quarter the rate for property crimes. It also noted that the undocumented had the lowest offending rates overall for felony and violent felony crime in the border state. “There is no evidence that the prevalence of undocumented immigrant crime has grown for any category,” the authors wrote.

The finding supports the general research consensus that immigrants commit less crime than U.S. citizens, though attempts at studying this population are confounded by states that don’t note immigration status in arrests. The Trump administration frequently describes unauthorized migrants as violent, dangerous criminals.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/trump-doj-undocumented-migrants-crime-b2712619.html

[markie]

1. of course they did

"state media"

[BoRaGard]

2. "No facts for you, American suckers and losers. Ha ha." - G.O.P.

Confirming that republicons, under the misleadership of Felon 47, are the party of lies, lies, lies.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. The document still exists. They erased the link to it. The abstract cited below says it plainly and convincingly.

We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes. In addition, the proportion of arrests involving undocumented immigrants in Texas was relatively stable or decreasing over this period. The differences between US-born citizens and undocumented immigrants are robust to using alternative estimates of the broader undocumented population, alternate classifications of those counted as “undocumented” at arrest and substituting misdemeanors or convictions as measures of crime

You can find the PDF here https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf

[hueymahl]

4. Typical for this administration

Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good narrative

[wolfie001]

5. Anyone paying attention knew this all along

trump's meth and opioid army of cultists Gotta feed the hate one way or another.

[Silent Type]

6. Fortunately, the documents and studies do exist elsewhere. Here's one on the House site.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf

[riversedge]

7. MY recommendation is that everyone who has a website should put this article up on it. IMHO

[KPN]

8. Doesn't match their disturbed view of the world. Of course they did.