Former DOJ chief of staff Kash Patel discusses the crime levels from Venezuelan migrants illegally in the U.S. on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

As the crisis at our border escalates, Democrats are working tirelessly to deflect attention from the alarming reality that illegal immigrants are committing crimes in American cities coast to coast. Democrats are acutely aware that every time an illegal immigrant commits a crime, the spotlight inevitably falls on their complicity.

In the aftermath of the tragic murder of Laken Riley, a young nursing student, allegedly by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, Democrat mouthpieces rushed to peddle the same tired narrative: that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes than American citizens.

NPR and Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post recently parroted studies claiming lower incarceration rates among male immigrants compared to native-born individuals.

In the aftermath of the tragic murder of Laken Riley, Democrat mouthpieces rushed to peddle the same tired narrative: that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes than U.S. citizens. (Getty Images)

No one is arguing that illegal immigrants commit more crimes than Americans (unless you count their unlawful entry, of course). The issue is that they commit crimes at all while being in the country illegally. These crimes wouldn't occur if our border security was effective.

AUTHORITIES NAB SEVERAL VIOLENT CRIMINALS IN US ILLEGALLY, INCLUDING MAN ARRESTED 12........

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