The second- and third-largest crime categories performed by illegal aliens are drug-related: drug trafficking (17.4 percent) and simple possession or sale of a small amount of marijuana (5.8 percent). Fraud ranked as the fourth-largest crime category (4.4 percent). A firearm offense, such as unlawful possession, transportation or use to commit a crime, ranked fifth (1.7 percent). The remaining crime categories for which an illegal alien was sentenced in federal court all fell below 1 percent.

Sigman was extremely misleading by stating that “the real problem is that U.S. citizens are being murdered, raped, and robbed … by undocumented immigrants.” In the same data set, robbery accounted for less than three-quarters of 1 percent, murder accounted about one-third of 1 percent, and rape is not even cited. The real problem is that people often abuse data to disguise the truth and promote their political ideologies, a problem that only gets worse as major elections approach.

Jama Crawford

Durango