During an appearance on MSNBC, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett sparked fresh controversy by dismissing concerns about the dangers posed by illegal immigration. In an exchange riddled with historical revisionism and what many conservatives see as dangerous deflection, Crockett downplayed immigrant-related crime by shifting blame to “White supremacists.”
“None of us want to be unsafe. Yeah, but we’re not looking at the facts,” Crockett stated. “We’re not looking at the fact that immigrants, regardless of how many times you’re going to cherry-pick and say well, there was this one immigrant that was here illegally, and they ended up killing this one person. Well, for every immigrant that you have an example of, I’ll raise you at least two to five White supremacists if not more, right?”
But the facts paint a starkly different picture.
According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as of 2024, a staggering 13,000 convicted murderers are on ICE’s docket, with an additional 1,845 individuals facing pending homicide charges. These individuals include both foreign nationals and illegal immigrants. Perhaps even more disturbing, 662,566 illegal immigrants on ICE’s list have criminal records, ranging from violent assaults and sexual crimes to drug trafficking and fraud.
These are not isolated incidents or cherry-picked statistics. These are hard numbers from a federal agency tasked with protecting the American public. And yet, Crockett’s response is to brush off these concerns by pointing fingers elsewhere and suggesting that “White supremacists” are the bigger threat—despite data from the Department of Justice showing that crimes by White supremacist groups, while real, are not even close in scale or frequency to those committed by individuals here illegally.
Crockett went further by invoking race-based historical narratives to criticize modern law enforcement. “But as somebody who understands history, when I see slave patrols—now I never lived through the slave patrol period—but if you know the history of policing in this country, then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols,” she claimed. “And now with the Supreme Court saying this, it’s almost like you can just go grab them up.”
This comment was in response to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed the Trump administration to resume more aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles, a sanctuary city where local officials had previously resisted federal cooperation. The Court lifted prior restrictions, permitting federal agents to use broader criteria—including reasonable suspicion based on language spoken—to investigate immigration status. Critics on the Left call this racial profiling; proponents see it as restoring law and order.
The ruling was celebrated by conservatives as a long-overdue move to uphold immigration laws and stop the chaos at the border, which has resulted in unprecedented illegal crossings and strains on local communities.
Crockett, however, has become known more for her inflammatory rhetoric than thoughtful policy. She gained notoriety for lashing out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) with a personal insult, calling her a “bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body” in response to Greene’s critique of her appearance—a moment many saw as emblematic of the Left’s embrace of identity politics over substantive debate.
At a time when violent crime is surging in cities across the country and Americans are demanding secure borders, Crockett’s remarks appear deeply out of touch. Rather than focus on defending our laws and protecting American citizens, she continues to stoke racial resentment and deny the very real consequences of illegal immigration.
