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https://cis.org/Report/Misuse-Texas-Data-Understates-Illegal-Immigrant-Criminality
Illegal immigrants are often not identified as such by most state prison systems. Also any claims that illegals are less criminal than natives doesn't pass the most basic of smell tests: illegals skew younger and more male (which universally correlates with higher crime rates) and the very nature of their status as illegal immigrants makes certain crimes like identity theft (to secure housing/employment/etc.) much more common.
In situations where we do have more accurate data on the immigration status of convicts (such as federal prison system) the data suggests that the internet racists are, in fact, right. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/departments-justice-and-homeland-security-release-data-incarcerated-aliens-94-percent-all
...That by definition the group is comprised of 100% criminals?
Don't ever concede that point if you don't need to.
But the old advice of "only commit one crime at a time" applies here too, presumably; if you're in a country illegally, it is in your interest to not do anything that could cause the police to pay attention to you and discover you entered illegally.
Like buy forged documents and evade taxes?
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Your second link, re federal data, is not particularly convincing, in part because federal criminals are a very small pct of all criminals, but also because federal inmates are those who committed federal offenses, many of which, such as drug smuggling 44 percent of the total, are often international offenses, so of course non-citizens are going to be overrepresented. It is also unclear whether many of the people referenced in the report are in custody for immigration-related offenses or because they are in removal proceedings.
Right, the article re Texas mentions that TX is one of the few states that has good data, which is why they look at Texas
As for the CIS report, if you look at the database they include, homicide rates are a bit higher for illegal immigrants (assuming that the denominator for the illegal immigrant pop is correct), and sex assault rates are higher, but rates for assault and robbery are lower. It sure looks like overall violent crime is lower, or maybe about the same.
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