This is why even as Trump's approval is falling compared to where he was on Election Day, the Democratic Party's approval rating has cratered. These people are simply out of touch of reality. Yes, people are concerned about mental health issues and visible homelessness, but to say that migrant crime and carjackings don't matter to many Americans is an example of why they don't seem to be capitalizing on Trump's missteps.
The woman speaking is from the Vera Institute, a leftist think tank that advocated for the
dismantle of the current culture of policing in the United States.
We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the
Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of
undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born
US citizens between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented
immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born
citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses.
Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over
2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times
more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more
likely to be arrested for property crimes. In addition, the propor-
tion of arrests involving undocumented immigrants in Texas was
relatively stable or decreasing over this period. The differences
between US-born citizens and undocumented immigrants are ro-
bust to using alternative estimates of the broader undocumented
population, alternate classifications of those counted as “undocu-
mented” at arrest and substituting misdemeanors or convictions
as measures of crime.