Tucker: New Stats Show Illegal Aliens Commit 'Massively Disproportionate' Amount Of Crime

Are people who are in this country precisely because they were willing to break our immigration laws really less likely to break other kinds of laws? It doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Yet, until today, strangely enough, no one could say for sure whether it was true. Because reliable statistics didn’t seem to exist. Our government tracks pretty much every trend and every phenomenon you can think of -- from how many pounds of pistachio nuts are recalled every year to how many fifth graders are injured on swing sets and how many people die in bathtubs.

This is a nation of recordkeepers. We are overseen by an army of spreadsheet-wielding bureaucrats, numbers control our lives — except on this subject. Somehow the government went for years without honestly trying to track the volume of crime committed by illegal immigrants in this country. Maybe they were too incompetent to do it. More likely they didn’t want you to know the answer or to think about it, even. In any case, we now for the first time have the actual numbers, and here they are.

According to statistics from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, noncitizens are actually far more likely to commit serious crimes than Americans are. Noncitizens account for 22%, more than a fifth of all federal murder convictions, 18% of fraud convictions, 33% of money laundering convictions, 29% of drug trafficking convictions and 72% of convictions for drug possession.

Meanwhile, the noncitizen percentage of the American population? About 7%. So that is a massively disproportionate amount of crime. Not even close. No, immigrants are not more law-abiding and less dangerous than Americans. That’s totally untrue. Indeed, it’s the opposite of the truth. Noncitizens are more likely to be arrested, convicted and imprisoned for serious crimes than people who were born here -- much more likely. Why didn’t we know this until now?”