>> martha: and merry christmas to all of you and your families. thank you for sharing this story of 2017 with us. here is to a great story being told in the new year. tucker carlson is coming up. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. this evening we have brand new numbers, striking numbers that have never been seen before and they may reshape how you think about illegal immigration. so you have heard the same line a million times. it's repeated like a mantra by the left during every debate on the subject. all immigrants are hard-working and law abiding. they do jobs you wouldn't consider doing and they do them cheerfully. they sacrifice for their families in ways you probably don't. in fact, and this is always the last point, it's always delivered with the confident satisfaction of someone shutting down a debate with superior data. undocumented immigrants actually commit fewer crimes on average than native born