Survey: Most Americans Misled on Illegal Immigrant Crime Rates Despite Mounting Evidence ~ VIDEO

AmmoLand ^ | June 7, 2025 | F. Riehl

[marktwain]

A new nationwide survey commissioned by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) and conducted by McLaughlin & Associates has revealed a significant disconnect between public perception and actual crime data involving illegal immigrants. Despite years of border chaos and rising crime rates, a majority of voters still believe illegal aliens are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens.

In the April 29, 2025 survey of 1,000 likely voters, only 33.3% said illegal immigrants commit crime at a higher rate than American citizens. By contrast, 41.6% said they do not, and 25.1% said they weren’t sure.

Survey: Do Illegal Aliens Commit Crime at a Higher Rate than Americans

Breakdown by Demographics

The divide is sharpest along political and ideological lines:

• Republicans (57.9%), conservatives (54.5%), and white voters aged 41–55 (40.6%) are the only major groups who believe illegal aliens commit more crimes.
• Democrats (64.8%), liberals (69.7%), young adults aged 18–29 (only 19% said “yes”), and Black Americans (58.4%) are most likely to believe the opposite.

These beliefs stand in stark contrast to hard data and mounting evidence.

Media Narrative vs. Data Reality

Legacy media and Democratic politicians routinely claim that illegal immigrants are more law-abiding than native-born Americans. Headlines like ABC’s “No, migrants are not driving a surge in violent crime” are cited as fact. Yet real-world data tells another story.

According to Dr. John Lott’s recent op-ed published across several outlets, including Real Clear Politics, government records show:

• In 2023, the Biden administration admitted that 9% of illegal immigrants released into the U.S. had known criminal backgrounds—that’s 662,566 out of 7.4 million.
• These numbers don’t include the estimated 2 million “gotaways” who evaded Border Patrol entirely, nor the unknown millions never detected at all.

[marktwain]

This is a common way to lie with statistics. Lump legal immigrants with illegal immigrants and say "immigrants" commit less crime than citizens.

But legal immigrants commit less crimes than citizens, and illegal immigrants commit more crime than citizens.

Legal immigrants risk more than citizens if they commit crimes.

Illegal immigrants risk less than citizens if they commit crimes.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Joe Biden should be ROTTING in a federal prison, along with Mayorkas and others who conspired to VIOLATE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS.

For example, how was FLYING ILLEGALS INTO OUR COUNTRY not a criminal act?

[MtnClimber]

The protests in Los Angeles seem "mostly peaceful".

[blackdog]

György Schwartz.

[MMusson]

A well known study on illegal aliens crime rates made a key mistake in their data. They studied inmates in Texas prisons where first offenders were not identified as illegals. Only repeat offenders were used as illegals. So they were comparing illegal repeat offenders to the total general population.

That’s what skewed the data

[neverevergiveup]

I would bet Soros (aka Gyorgy) has recurrent contact with the President of Mexico. He is a disgusting waste of a human soul.

[blackdog]

Greenwich CT. He can be arrested and deported-extradited, to Hungary and the world Court anytime! He’s wanted in Europe for his crap bigly.

[blackdog]

Greenwich CT. He can be arrested and deported-extradited, to Hungary and the world Court anytime! He’s wanted in Europe for his crap bigly. How the guy escapes Karma I have no idea?

[neverevergiveup]

Make big political donations and buy friends in positions of power.