In the US, are illegal immigrants more likely to commit crimes?

In the US, illegal immigrants are not more likely to commit crimes than other people.

Imagine you're at a big playground full of kids from all over town, some live close by, and others came from far away. Some kids know the rules of the game well, and others are still learning them. Now, if someone says that the kids who came from far away are more likely to break the rules, that doesn’t mean it’s true, it might just be because there are more kids from far away in the playground.

Many studies have looked at this question, and they found that illegal immigrants are actually less likely to commit crimes than people who were born in the US. It's like comparing two groups of students, one group has more students, but the other group does better on tests.

So even though you might hear about some crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the news, it doesn’t mean they’re more likely to do it overall, just that there are more of them.