Illegal Immigrant Crime Stats: What are the Facts?


Welcome to my first, experimental audio production! What’s the true rate of illegal immigrant crime?

I hope this contains some information you didn’t know before you listened. Please leave your feedback and ideas in the comment section.


181 thoughts on “Illegal Immigrant Crime Stats: What are the Facts?”

  1. I consider you to be one of the few surviving truly “investigative” reporters. I always will read your stories and will try to adapt to looking for a podcast. (At 84, I’m not really part of this generation–or the last one either, for that matter!) I think the fact that statistics aren’t kept with a category for crimes committed by illegal aliens is a deliberate attempt to keep that information from the public. Good for you for finding a way to address the issue!

  2. Excellent report on another one of those subjects that need to be discussed. We can start to overcome the intensity of the debate with facts and maybe we can cool the building division and conflict amongst ourselves. Meeting that need is as important as the actual information in the report. Thank you.

  3. Well done Sharyl. We still need a comprehensive cost – benefit analysis of illegal immigration presenting both sides so we can have informed debate. Evaluating the costs the costs is one side of the equation.

  4. Thank you for digging up the truth regarding illegal immigrant crime statistics & the ongoing costs, which is probably much higher than what you mentioned. The savings our federal, state & local governments would realize ALONE by sending these convicted illegals back to their own countries to serve their sentences is worth fighting for. Reducing aid to those countries to offset housing illegal criminals is a good start. Thanks Sharyl & keep up the great reporting. It’s really appreciated young lady.

  5. Read both your books, VERY eye opening. Keep reporting. Somehow, get your words to many more. I mention your books on Facebook regularly as a primer on the deep corruption in our government. Congress AND the bureaucracy has a death grip on our country. I for one cannot see a path to cleaning things up. Please, keep speaking up for truth.

  6. I like this news podcast format. I probably wouldn’t have read the same information if written. Thanks.

    Other topics: The climate change industry and its reliance on and whitewashing of junk science (and scientists), the tremendous decline in the number of insects in the world, the reasons why Americans have become fat and its effect on our society, alternatives to opioid pain medications, the failure of taxpayer funded “basic income” programs, the deplorable ignorance of the average voter and why democracy requires an educated citizenry, are pedophile Catholic priests really homosexual or are they compelled by asserting dominance, what lifestyle do defrocked pedophile priests live, the now-legal hemp industry.

    Good luck. Love your work.

  7. Thank you for your work. This is a good length and format for a podcast—about ten minutes, focused on a specific topic.

    Two recommendations:

    1) If you discuss a document, try to provide a link to that document in the podcast description if at all possible.

    2) Use a DeEsser to soften the “s” and “sh” sounds as picked up by the mic.

    Good job. I’m looking forward to more. And thanks for linking this on Gab. That’s how I heard about it.

  8. Great information. Thank you as always for your tireless research and reporting of the facts.
    The truth matters.

  9. I enjoyed the podcast very much. Simple, straightforward and fact based.
    It is becoming more and more difficult to get unvarnished truth without spin. Thanks for your work. Please keep up the podcast.

  10. Thank you for this. It is hard to find out what is really going on. The chaos and lack of information protects the incompetent as well as the unscrupulous. It is what keeps citizens from understanding that those “in charge” may not have the best intentions in spite of their rhetoric.

  11. Hi..great reporting as usual. I have read both of your books and I loved them. The Smear really opened my eyes about the election and how they are so crooked!! Even in our local election I found the “smear campaign” to be in effect, I can’t even imagine what really goes on. As for your next podcast, I would like information on what is happening, in your opinion, about Hillary and Obama. Now there is a crooked pair if I ever saw one. Thank you for your time and podcast… keep it up Sharyl.

  12. Excellent podcast on illegal alien crime. Refreshing to get some hard data on the subject.
    Look forward to more podcasts like this.

  13. Sharyl, I love the podcast idea. I’m a fan of your reporting style (go where the story takes you, ruffled feathers be damned :) ).

    I loved both your books! I would love to catch Full Measure, but it isn’t available in my area, so your podcast would be a win for me.

    Keep up the great work!

  14. Listened to be podcast and thought it was terrific. This is the kind of reporting that the msm lacks.
    Living in SoCal, I hear more stories about what illegals do than people in states that aren’t on the border.
    A story about the positives and negatives regarding border fences or walls would be helpful right now.
    Thanks for all you do.

  15. Thank you for the reporting. I have often made a similar point, using only current Federal Corrections inmate data, which lacks background on specific offenses, past history, etc. As you discovered, there is no way (and probably never will be) to determine such numbers on a local or state basis, because political opposition would never allow it. Likewise, if immigrant advocates seek to lessen the grotesque ratio of imprisoned compared to total (estimated illegal) population by alleging a more populous illegal basis, they risk counterproductive backlash to this increase in numbers (which one might suspect really are higher than 11 million). Anyway, good job. And just one other thought: immigrants who enter illegally but who are granted legal status almost immediately based on country of origin (Haiti and Cuba spring to mind) would not be counted as illegal immigrants by US BOP, but which might reasonably be included as perhaps a footnote when trying to establish a cost, both fiscal and societal, for a dysfunctional immigration system.

  16. Just heard a story by Reuters on the illegal alien involved in the California police shooting. Bogus claim you address head on (“recent report shows more crime committed by U.S. citizens than immigrants”) was cited to blunt the honest assessment by the devastated Police chief whose officer had been needlessly slaughtered… thank you for the facts you’ve uncovered and made available to people like me who are trying to parse the truth…

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