Debunking John Oliver’s Claim That There Is “No Migrant Crime Wave”

HBO host claims “migrant crime” is term recently created by Fox News

HBO talk show host John Oliver recently covered the ‘migrant crime crisis’ spoken about at great length during the RNC.

He claimed this issue is only relevant due to “relentless, bad-faith fearmongering by the Republican Party,” and asserted the term “migrant crime” is a recent creation of Fox News.

“To be very clear, there is no migrant crime wave happening right now,” Oliver stated explicitly.

He reviewed several high-profile migrant stories and discussed President Trump’s usage of the phrase “migrant crime.” Oliver claimed there is no data to support this narrative.

He breezed over the more horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens that have garnered national attention.

“I am not saying that there haven’t been individual migrants who committed crimes,” he contended before concluding the segment by telling his audience to not vote for Donald Trump.

“There is no migrant crime wave.”

Since we do not know the exact number of illegal aliens in our country, and since many authorities and agencies do not disclose the immigration status of suspects and criminals, there is some level of nuance and perspective required.

1. Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) sums up illegal alien crime thusly: “Illegal aliens blocked at the border or who are quickly removed from the country cannot inflict harm on Americans because they are not present. That means every single crime committed by an illegally-present immigrant was preventable and should never have happened.” (CIS)

2. One data set used to support the claim that ‘migrants’ commit crimes at a lower rate than native-born citizens is put forth by the Texas Department of Public Safety, and this data is often misinterpreted or misrepresented. For instance: the 2.7 per 100,000 homocide rate for illegal immigrants compared to the 3.0 per 100,000 rate for citizens is indeed lower. However, many illegal immigrants are not identified until much later, and their immigration status is not known or released during their initial arrest. The data indicates that once ALL the information is collected, the true number is 3.9 per 100,00, which is higher than the state average. (CIS)

3. Multiple sanctuary jurisdictions request federal aid to support law enforcement efforts and they have seen this amount nearly double from 2021 to 2023. (CIS)

4. This is not a recent issue. At the end of FY 2019, a total of 51,074 known or suspected aliens were in custody.

5. In Arizona, nearly 3% of all illegal aliens will be incarcerated compared to roughly .7% of Arizona’s citizens or legally present aliens. (FAIR)

6. In Texas, more than 175,000 illegal aliens were booked into state and local jails and charged with more than 273,000 criminal offenses between 2011 and 2018. (FAIR)

7. Border Hawk has published numerous articles detailing horrific crimes committed by ‘migrants’ this month alone.

• July 25: “Mexican Illegal Charged in Fatal Hit-and-Run in Nashville”
• July 22: “Florida Deputies Arrest ‘Migrant’ Charged With Two Murders During Crime Spree”
• July 19: “Illegal Alien Indicted On Slew of Child Sex Crimes In Ohio”
• July 18: “ICE Arrests Chadian Illegal Released by Sanctuary County Despite Conviction for Accessory to Murder”
• July 16: “Teen Illegal Charged In Deadly Shooting Spree In Charlotte”

8. Jocelyn Nungaray. Rachel Morin. 21-year old woman in NY. Two Texas Chick-fil-A employees. Laken Riley. All lives taken by illegal immigrants in recent months.

9. All of the above crimes were preventable and should never have occurred. The families of U.S. citizens whose lives are ended or destroyed by illegal immigrants do not care about “data.” Those families deserve justice and an explanation for the abject failure of their government to protect them.

10. Yes, there is a “migrant crime wave” because there should not be any crimes committed by illegal aliens.

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