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The CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank, disproved this repeated claim by the anti-immigrant movement through an analysis of criminal conviction data in Texas for 2015 provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the American Community Survey and the Center for Migration Studies. 鈥淚llegal immigrants, non-citizens, and legal immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated, convicted, or arrested for crimes than native-born Americans are,鈥� the study .

The myth of the criminal immigrant has been a trope in the anti-immigrant movement聽for decades. In 1994, anti-immigrant extremists Wayne Lutton听补苍诲 John Tanton听肠辞-补耻迟丑辞谤别诲 The Immigration Invasion. The book was published by The Social Contract Press聽(TSCP), the white nationalist publishing house founded by Tanton and run by Lutton.

Tanton, the racist architect of the anti-immigrant movement, wrote alongside Lutton, 鈥淎mong illegal aliens, the incarceration rate is three times the U.S. average鈥� (Lutton and Tanton, 1994, p. 61). This is an almost identical claim to Trump鈥檚, written 25 years earlier.

Trump also made assertions similar to Tanton鈥檚 about immigrants in prison. 鈥淎nd if you look at prison population in federal prisons,鈥� Trump continued in his speech at CPAC, 鈥渢hese federal prisons are 鈥� the number is staggering. The number of illegals 鈥� far, far, far greater than any proportion of our population.鈥�

In May 1992, Tanton for TSCP: 鈥淐riminal activities committed by aliens have escalated dramatically. Aliens are crowding local, state, and federal jails across the country. 鈥� Criminal activities in the U.S. run by Third World natives can be traced back to the Immigration Act of 1965 and failure to control illegal immigration.鈥�

Trump has cited fallacious figures about immigrants committing crimes in the past. In June, he met聽with family members of individuals killed by undocumented immigrants, a group he calls 鈥渁ngel families.鈥� Among the attendees were members from Advocates for Victims of Illegal Aliens Crimes (AVIAC), a splinter group from the Remembrance Project, an anti-immigrant hate group run by Maria Espinoza. At the event, Trump claimed, 鈥淚n Texas alone, within the last seven years, more than a quarter million criminal aliens have been arrested and charged with over 600,000 criminal offenses.鈥� CATO both refuted this figure and also showed the criminal conviction rate for legal immigrants in Texas was 聽than the native-born rate.

Anti-immigrant groups founded and funded聽by Tanton such as FAIR and Center for Immigration Studies聽(CIS) continue to propagate this myth. In January 2018, Steven Camarota, research director at CIS, a paper titled, 鈥淣on-Citizens Committed a Disproportionate Share of Federal Crimes, 2011 鈥� 16.鈥� In February, FAIR published a , 鈥淪CAAP Data Suggest Illegal Aliens Commit Crime at a Much Higher Rate than Citizens and Lawful Immigrants.鈥�

These erroneous reports, facts and figures are not without consequence. A 聽shows 45 percent of Americans polled believe immigrants make 鈥渢he crime situation鈥� worse.

President Trump鈥檚 promotion of these consistently discredited claims surely won鈥檛 help.