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Activists’ claims that unlawful aliens commit crimes at decrease charges than native-born Individuals do might seem convincing — however new information from New York reveals these right here illegally commit crime at a price a lot increased than their share of the state’s inhabitants.
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It’s true that should you lump all immigrants collectively, comparatively few of them are accused and convicted of crimes dedicated right here in the USA.
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Authorized immigrants commit crime at very low charges, so combining their crime information with that of unlawful immigrants masks the latter’s increased felony exercise.
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Now, contemporary information from the Division of Homeland Safety gives a contemporary have a look at this query.
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As The Put up has reported, the division claims that 7,113 of these presently incarcerated in New York state prisons and jails are unlawful immigrants.
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They’ve been convicted of committing 148 homicides, 717 assaults, 134 burglaries, 106 robberies, 235 harmful medication offenses, 152 weapons offenses and 260 sexual predatory offenses, amongst different crimes.
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What’s extra, New York’s failure to honor US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers has resulted within the launch of 6,947 felony unlawful aliens since January twentieth.
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The DHS information offers us a useful metric to calculate relative charges of criminality.
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Altogether, roughly 50,803 individuals are incarcerated in New York’s jail and jail techniques: about 32,469 within the New York State Division of Corrections and Group Supervision and one other 18,334 within the state’s metropolis and county jails.
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The 7,113 unlawful aliens presently incarcerated thus make up 14.0% of New York’s whole inmate inhabitants — and since the state doesn’t actively establish immigration standing, this share is probably going an underestimate.
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One other confounding issue: Immigration authorities typically deport undocumented immigrants straight from jail earlier than they end their sentences.
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In early 2025, for instance, nationally about half of the people ICE highlighted in enforcement actions have been already incarcerated on the time of their arrest.
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This observe skews crime information by underrepresenting unlawful aliens in jail inhabitants statistics since a few of them get eliminated early from jail. Some felony illegals are even deported after arrest or conviction, by no means getting into jail.
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As properly, there’s New York’s Defend Our Courts Act, which goals to maintain ICE from selecting up unlawful immigrants inside or instantly round New York state courthouses when they’re being arraigned on fees.
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In New York Metropolis alone, nonetheless, ICE has made about 460 arrests from mid-Could by way of July this yr that “probably befell on the identical day as a courtroom listening to,” per CBS Information.
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However assume the DHS information is appropriate, and illegals make up 14.0% of incarcerated people in New York.
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New York is estimated to have between 676,000 to 825,000 unlawful aliens out of a complete state inhabitants of 19.99 million — which means unlawful immigrants make up solely 3.4% to 4.15% of the state’s inhabitants.
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And meaning they’re overrepresented within the state’s prisons and jails by not less than 3.4 instances.
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And even when the inhabitants estimate undercounts the variety of unlawful aliens in New York, and the true quantity current is 2 to a few instances increased, unlawful aliens would nonetheless be massively overrepresented amongst New York’s convicted and accused criminals.
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Housing these 7,113 illegals in prisons and jails is dear.
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Whereas within the common prices differ throughout numerous services, assuming half of incarcerated illegals are in state jail and half of the rest are in New York Metropolis jails implies a price of properly over $1 billion per yr, and probably as a lot as $1.4 billion.
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Different information, too, hyperlinks unlawful immigrants to crime.
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Final yr, the Biden administration admitted that 9% of the 7.4 million “non-detained” unlawful immigrants it had tallied — 662,566 individuals — already had felony data, regardless that the overwhelming majority had voluntarily turned themselves in on the border and have been the least more likely to be criminals.
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This determine even excludes the two million identified “gotaways” who crossed the border with out being caught and the unknown thousands and thousands who evaded detection — and it probably understates felony histories, since international locations like Venezuela typically refuse to share background info.
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So it’s hardly shocking that violent crime surged by a report 59% throughout Biden’s 4 years in workplace — the biggest share improve ever, over any four-year interval — on the similar time the USA skilled an unprecedented inflow of unlawful aliens.
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As Trump deports felony unlawful immigrants and deters others from attracting police consideration, the U.S. is on observe for the bottom homicide price ever recorded.
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The proof from New York makes clear that unlawful immigrants are committing crimes at far increased charges than their share of the inhabitants. Taking federal information, state jail figures, and real-world enforcement outcomes into consideration, the left’s “low-crime” narrative merely collapses.
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John R. Lott, Jr., “New information reveals the horrific reality about illegal-immigrant crime,” New York Put up, December 28, 2025.
