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one of these lies gets halfway around the rail before we get our pants on with the truth and that s where we stand on illegal immigration and crime. a study by the university of wisconsin agreed with the analysis except it mischaracterized more data about illegal immigrants and what texas collects. we spoke to the texas department of public safety at length and got the original date of the used and it just doesn t say what they said it says. it doesn t include that categories they represent in their papers. tucker: that make sense the people were willing to immigration law would break other laws. most normal people would not break immigration laws. why don t we sneak into japan. you would say we cannot because it s against the law, right? it takes a certain sort of person to sneak into a country, does it not? absolutely. it also takes a certain kind of country to allow people to come in with impunity and not hold them to account. at the end of the day we don t
being absolutely misrepresented. they claimed native born americans can be compared apples to apples to illegal immigrants. texas doesn t collect data on native-born americans. that s in some other category which includes unidentified illegal immigrants. every year especially in serious crime categories, texas keeps finding more illegals in its prisons that weren t identified initially upon arrest. more and more illegals amongst the victor collinson texas when texas goes back and checks on people s immigration status. tucker: the cato study was a lie and yet as you said it was weaponized immediately by the usual wires to shout down anyone who said maybe we shouldn t have open borders. absolutely. it was a mischaracterization. it used to be a used to be entitled to your own opinions but now you re entitled to your own facts and not your own opinions.
point. new analysis looked more deeply into it we can tell you the results. illegal immigrants in texas for example appeared to be convicted of crimes such as homicide, sexual assault and kidnapping at higher rates than the state average. in one recent year the homicide conviction rate for illegals in texas was 3.3 from 100,000. it was much higher than the state s overall rate, 2.9. these are meaningful numbers and their demolish the talking point it s often thrown at you. we have the lead researcher on this. thanks for coming on. how did you find these numbers which have been hidden? a number of studies have been done by the cato institute and then repeated by the washington post. a new york times debunking the notion illegal immigrants commit any crime for that matter. i was curious, my lead authors were curious as well estimate the actual data said. we found out that the data was