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Illegal immigrants, often, are more passive than US citizens, having a much lesser crime rate compared to actual citizens. Articles such as those written by Melissa Goldin “found that undocumented immigrants had substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, U.S.-born citizens are over two times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over four times more likely to be arrested for property crimes." As you may guess, illegal immigrants, who are within the United States illegally and unofficially, do not appear in, literally, any criminal records within the United States. The United States keeps track of legal immigrants by recording their entry into the United States in the first place, using mentions or recordings of their passing through customs, their visas, which they used to enter the country, etc. Similarly, like all citizens, they are kept track of for the rest of their lives in the United States, using records of their existence in daily life, such as tax payments, court proceedings, marital forums, census fields, etc. However, with illegal immigrants, their existence in the United States is the first place in the unknown, as they immigrated here on their basis, without permission, and have gotten permission to enter the United States, meaning they came here without the government knowing, meaning they are unrecorded. Furthermore, the government uses its recordings to enforce law and order, and illegal immigrants, who do not appear within the recordings of the populace of the nation, can not be tried and convicted by law enforcement since law enforcement doesn't know they exist, to evict them in the first place. This is the reason our data here is so low, not