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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dr. John Lott talked to Gavin McInnes on CRTV's "Get Off My Lawn" to discuss our new research on crime by illegal aliens. (Tuesday, January 23, 2018)
In a major speech on Friday, January 26th, 2018, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered remarks on the Trump administration's immigration priorities (see here for his entire talk). He cited our new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center to explain...
Washington Examiner, January 12, 2018 A new report about crimes committed by illegals finds that younger undocumented immigrants who were eligible for former President Obama’s DACA amnesty program commit far more crimes than other immigrants or U.S. citizens. In...