The mainstream media portray youthful DACA recipients as uniformly model citizens (though without citizenship papers) and assert that illegal immigrants are less prone to committing crimes than native-born Americans.<\/p>\n
Facts say otherwise.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Sentencing Commission<\/a> reports that 40.3 percent of offenders incarcerated in federal facilities in 2016 were non-citizens. More than 90 percent<\/a> of them were illegal aliens.<\/p>\n Even factoring out the 15,818 convicted of \u201cunlawfully entering or remaining in country\u201d last year \u2013 a scandalously low figure — non-citizens\u00a0still\u00a0make up a disproportionately high share of miscreants: 20 percent of\u00a0all non-immigration\u00a0offenders versus 7 percent of the total U.S. population.\u00a0None of this accounts for non-citizens in state and local lockups.<\/p>\n Non-citizens represent an outsize number of inmates serving time for\u00a0federal\u00a0crimes ranging from murder and drug dealing to racketeering, extortion, money laundering, larceny and embezzlement. See a few of the most heinous offenders here.<\/a><\/p>\n Crime statistics for the illegal alien population as a whole belie advocacy groups\u2019 claims that illegal immigrants are benign. If the use of fraudulent documents — and the misery that causes for those whose identities are stolen — were included in official reports, the real crime rate would be closer to 100 percent.<\/p>\n Despite efforts by advocates and the media to portray DACA recipients in uniformly laudatory terms, a small number of criminals have been able to slip through the cracks of the vaunted screening process.<\/p>\n