The GOP is lying about immigrants, but Texas crime data shows they're more homicidal than native-born Americans

A new study shows that native-born Americans who were born here are more homicidal than immigrants, including undocumented immigrants.

The libertarian Cato Institute study found that the most homicidal Texans are American citizens.

The study defined “legal” immigrants as foreign-born people who have formally received citizenship or hold green cards.

A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that undocumented immigrants in Texas were half as likely as U.S.-born citizens to be arrested for violent crimes between 2012 and 2018 .

Since 1960 , since 1960 , immigrants’ incarceration rates have actually significantly declined relative to native-born citizens.

Despite hair-on-fire rhetoric from Republicans , there hasn’t been a single terrorist attack by someone who crossed the border illegally.

Around 90% of illicit fentanyl is seized at border crossings by people attempting to enter the country at a legal checkpoint.

Nearly all couriers of that fentanyl were legally authorized to cross the border, including more than half who were U.S. citizens.

In fiscal year 2022 , 88% of fentanyl trafficking offenders were American citizens.