At a House hearing, Rep. Jasmine Crockett runs David Bier through claims about immigrants, asking "rhetoric or reality?" He calls both the crime claim and the claim that immigrants contribute nothing rhetoric. Crockett then asks to enter an article from nij.ojp.gov saying the undocumented immigrant offending rate is lower than the US-born citizen rate, and a study saying undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes.
The receipt
- Who
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett
- Where
- hearing - House Judiciary Committee
- Original footage
- Capitol Clips · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 48 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 1 on Instagram
Read the transcript
Immigrants commit more crimes than US citizens. On a per capita basis. Rhetoric or reality. Oh, it is rhetoric. Okay, thank you so much. Mr. Chair, I'd like to ask for unanimous consent to enter into the record this article, which states that undocumented immigrant offending rate lower than US born citizen rate. And this is from nij .ojp .gov. Without objection. Thank you so much. The next one, immigrants are just living off the federal government and contributing nothing. That would be rhetoric. Okay, thank you so much. Mr. Chair, I would ask unanimous consent to enter a study that says undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.