Does anyone have statistics about crime rates of illegals?Is it really higher than that of other groups?

Question

Can someone really show where it is documented that immigrants commit more crime than citizens? I would like to see credable stats.I want to be unbaised so give me real numbers please can you?

Answer 1

Well, If you consider that they committed a crime when they entered the country illegally, the crime rate is 100%.

other than that the majority tend to keep a low profile so as not to call attention to themselves.

Answer 2

Did someone just say NYC has a low crime rate? You must live in the really nice part.
"An article in City Journal reports, “In Los Angeles, up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal immigrants. A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County.”- http://www.menstuff.org/columns/nemko/28.html

You also make want to try organzations like FAIR.org, Hispanics for Secure borders, Pew Hispanic Center, Center for Immigration Studies. There was also a study recently published by a center that studies violent crime. I cannot remember the link but perhaps if you did a search in your search engine you might have some luck.
And let's not forget identity theft, fraud, tax evasion, to name a few of the crimes that SOME, NOT ALL of these people commit.

Answer 3

Last I heard 23% and it is rising. I believe this was on Frontline (might have been 60 minutes or Dateline).You could look those 3 up-all had a story on the prisons. Also fox news has some information. The rest are made up of many. Poverty(and their means to escape by dishonesty), drugs, thieves and gangs-are the reasons most are in. Murder and child predators and others the least. There our over 200 thousand of Illegal sex predators who have come in (opportunity-) But that is not a lot compared to the number of illegals that are in. Of course 1 is to many for the children sakes. This is why we should monitor all who come and all who want to stay-for protection of all especially children. Is it fair that criminals be allowed in with the good people-I think not-all should have a background check.

Answer 4

Actually, the issue in some of these cases is that these people committing violent crimes in the US that are illegal immigrants have committed similar crimes in their nations of origin. They come to the US without undergoing a background check. There is actually evidence that illegal immigration increase crime rates in particular areas. Drug trafficking, forced prostitution, car thief and robbery are some of the crimes being "smuggled" into the country in a sense. What do you think all those tunnel found between Texas and Mexico were for? Most of the illegal drugs in the United States come from the Mexican border.

Answer 5

Hey, New York City is 38% foreign born--with a great many illegals--and it has one of the lowest crime rates of any city in the nation. As a city, we had the forethought (and experience) to put an infrastructure in place to accommodate a large influx of new arrivals. We are more effective in channeling human potential--so large waves of immigrants are not experienced as threatening as they seem to be in some of the non-traditional gateway area like Texas, Arizona etc.

Answer 6

Absolutely. Just go on the Internet and put in Illegal immigrants population prison percent, or similar words of your choice. The numbers vary, particularly by date when the studies were run, but they are always dramatic when compared to the illegal immigrant population number.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=illegal+immigrant%21+prison+population+percent&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&xargs=0&pstart=1&fr=FP-tab-web-t362&b=11
http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/cap/2003/cap_03-09-25.html
http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05646r.html

Answer 7

And these numbers are with only 10% of Mexico here!

Although these illegal aliens won't commit to learning our language, they do commit heinous crimes against us. That's why illegal aliens now constitute more than 100,000 of the convicted felons in our state prisons and comprise more than 27% of the federal prison population. Their felonies include murder, rape, kidnapping, armed robbery, drunk driving, identity theft, and child molestation.

Answer 8

It will always be higher, because there are more of them.
This past New Years, latino activist groups in my city were complaining that 80% of drunk drivers arrested were Mexican, and they felt that they were being singled out. But, since 80% of the people that live in my city are Mexican, kinda makes sense that they would be the majority arrested.

Answer 9

Yes, regretfully in Spain, criminality is lately very related to immigration. See spanish newspapers.

Answer 10

Last I saw, it was actually lower. They were less inclined to do something wrong because the consequences are worse for them.