New data reveals the horrific truth about illegal-immigrant crime |
Activists’ claims that illegal aliens commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans do may appear convincing, but new data from New York state shows that those here illegally commit crimes at a rate more than three times higher than that of legal residents.
And it’s costing us billions.
It’s true that if you lump all immigrants together, relatively few of them are accused and convicted of crimes committed here in the United States.
Legal immigrants commit crimes at very low rates, so combining their crime data with that of illegal immigrants masks the latter’s higher criminal activity.
Now, fresh data from the Department of Homeland Security offers a fresh look at this question.
As The Post has reported, the department claims that 7,113 of those currently incarcerated in New York state prisons and jails are illegal immigrants.
They’ve been convicted of committing 148 homicides, 717 assaults, 134 burglaries, 106 robberies, 235 dangerous drugs offenses, 152 weapons offenses, and 260 sexual predatory offenses, among other crimes.
What’s more, New York’s failure to honor US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers has resulted in the release of 6,947 criminal illegal aliens since........