{"id":105005,"date":"2024-04-03T21:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/no-migrants-are-not-driving-a-surge-in-violent-crime-as-trump-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T21:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:04:04","slug":"no-migrants-are-not-driving-a-surge-in-violent-crime-as-trump-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/no-migrants-are-not-driving-a-surge-in-violent-crime-as-trump-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"No, migrants are not driving a surge in violent crime as Trump claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-03\/GettyImages_Trump_030424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Daniel Steinle\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Republicans \u2013 including former President Donald Trump \u2013 who disagree with President Joe Biden&#8217;s immigration policies paint a dire picture of America as a country ruined by crime committed by migrants living illegally in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that some people who have committed the misdemeanor of crossing the border illegally have gone on to commit much more serious crimes. Trump has repeatedly attempted to put a national spotlight on these cases, including some gruesome murders.<\/p>\n<p>However, like other claims the former president makes, his stories of what he calls &#8220;migrant crime&#8221; can be heavily skewed, exaggerated and fuel a baseless narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s anecdotal accounts do not acknowledge the fact that U.S. citizens commit crimes at higher rates than undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relative to undocumented immigrants, U.S.-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes,&#8221; according to a 2020 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, nationwide crime declined in 2023, according to the FBI. Homicide declined by 13% compared to 2022, the data show. The declining crime rate followed an unprecedented spike in homicides from 2019 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>While it is unclear how crime rates in 2024 will ultimately pan out, early data shows murder is down 20% his year, according to Jeff Asher, a data analyst and co-founder of the firm AH Datalytics.<\/p>\n<p>Further research shows Trump&#8217;s presidency did not result in more arrests of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n<p>A December 2023 study in the journal Crime and Delinquency found Trump ultimately did not make his crime reduction pledge a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Steinle\/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Republicans \u2013 including former President Donald Trump \u2013 who disagree with President Joe Biden&#8217;s immigration policies paint a dire picture of America as a country ruined by crime committed by migrants living illegally in the U.S. It is true that some people who<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/no-migrants-are-not-driving-a-surge-in-violent-crime-as-trump-claims\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}