Something to remember when people claim that illegal immigrants aren't committing crime. Illegal immigrants are obviously not making up 75% of the population in Midtown and 60% of that in Queens. . Police sources shared with The Post a staggering estimate that as many...
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Virginia Just Found 6,303 Noncitizens Registered to Vote
All data collected by the DMV that identifies noncitizens is shared with ELECT, which uses it to scrub existing voter rolls and remove noncitizens who may have purposefully or accidentally registered to vote. According to data from ELECT, between January 2022 and July...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu supports not prosecuting shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property
Any guess what will happen to the number of shoplifting and other crimes? Don't people understand that this type of policy will increase the crime rate? Then, Wu was asked whether she supported a do-not-prosecute list enacted by the former Suffolk County...
Citizenship verification in Georgia finds that 1,600 noncitizens attempted to register to vote but were stopped by the verification
As we recently posted, Democrats now openly acknowledge their goal is to give citizenship to all illegal aliens. But, apparently, some can't wait for non-citizens to vote. Secretaries of State Brad Raffensperger (R-GA), Adrian Fontes (D-AZ), and Jocelyn Benson (D-MI)...
Trump v. Biden Border Walls
Biden is putting a 20 miles of border wall along the Texas/Mexico border. But there is one problem: Biden's idea of a border wall is hardly a border. CBP officials said the new segments they plan to build will minimize environmental impacts by using a movable “Jersey...
At Real Clear Investigations: Europe Shows a Clear Link Between Immigration and Crime — Like the One the U.S. Seriously Downplays
Dr. John Lott and James Varney have a piece at Real Clear Investigations on the relationship between crime and immigration. The data used in the investigation is available as a STATA data set here. The regression output is shown at the bottom of this post. The piece...
Completely Bogus Fact-Check By the Associated Press attacking the CPRC’s Research
The Associated Press has a fact-check attacking a video that Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens on illegal aliens in the US that referenced the CPRC's research. CLAIM: Immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who come from Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador are...
CBS’s Coyote: Uses a retired law and order border agent to make arguments for letting illegal aliens into US
Here are very short clips from three different episodes of Coyote (Season 1, Episodes 2, 3, and 4), but it will give you a taste of how the show makes arguments for letting illegal aliens into the US and how Mexico's problems are really a result of the US. The attacks...
Biden’s complete flip-flop on whether crossing border illegally is a crime
During the first two Democratic presidential debates in 2019, Joe Biden has taken completely opposite positions on the deportation of illegal aliens. In the first debate in Miami, Biden raised his hand along with virtually all the other candidates in agreeing that...
On John Gibson’s national radio show to discuss claims that there is no research showing illegal aliens commit crime at high rates
Dr. John Lott appeared on John Gibson's national radio show to discuss claims that there is no research showing illegal aliens commit crime at high rates. Gibson starts off with audio of CNN’s Chris Cuomo falsely claiming that no studies find illegal aliens commit...
UPDATED: Responding to Cato’s and others’ attacks on our research regarding crime by illegal immigrants
We have already responded to many comments on Twitter and updated the earlier copy of the research. The latest version can be downloaded here. The Cato Institute and others have raised new attacks, which we respond to below (including responding to their responses...
NBC’s Chuck Todd on Trump’s “Mythical Immigrant Criminal”
After President Donald Trump's State of the Union on January 30, 2018, NBC's Chuck Todd attacked President Donald Trump because "he led with let me paint the picture of this mythical immigrant criminal here that I want everyone to make fun about." Yet, our new...