Jul 17, 2015 ... Despite Trump's rhetoric, immigrants in the US, overall, commit crime at a lower  rate than the native-born. ... Immigrants are more law-abiding than native-born  Americans ... Sánchez has been deported five times to Mexico, his home country,  and his record includes a series of low-level drug offenses.
Aug 3, 2017 ... In July 2016, it rated Mostly True a statement by Libertarian candidate for  president Gary Johnson that Mexican immigrants "are more law-abiding than  U.S. citizens and that is a statistic." PolitiFact found several studies that back up  this claim by citing incarceration rates. It also found groups that challenged ...
Jan 26, 2017 ... But several studies, over many years, have concluded that immigrants are less  likely to commit crimes than people born in the United States. ... to get a different  conclusion,” said Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the libertarian  Cato Institute, which advocates more liberal immigration laws.
Jul 16, 2015 ... Undocumented immigrants either help local economies flourish or bleed them  dry. They're either hard-working, law-abiding members of society simply trying to  improve their lot in life, or job-stealing opportunists who are holding Americans  back. After years of covering immigration, I've found only one ...
Jul 10, 2015 ... And what the research shows is that there's no evidence that immigrants are  either more or less likely to commit crimes than anyone else in the population.  The studies that claim to find that immigrants are somehow more law-abiding  than Americans are based on very flawed data, because that doesn't ...
(Mexican immigrants) are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens and that is a statistic.