Is immigrant crime an exaggerated fear?

Throughout the history of the United States, there has been a public perception that immigration to the United States has led to higher crime rates in the country. This perception may be fueled by media reports, which have covered crimes that have been committed by immigrants or by fears that immigration will impact people's economic security. I will examine both sides of this issue so you can make an informed decision.
While there has been a criminal element within any group of people within the United States, the data suggests that this perception of immigration is not an accurate perception, now or in the past. Going back to the early 1900s, studies have shown that immigrants have not been more prone to commit crimes than native-born Americans. In 1901, the Industrial Commission issued a report that showed that foreign-born whites were less likely to commit crimes than native-born whites. In 1911, the Immigration Commission reported that immigration didn’t lead to higher crime rates. In 1931, a report from the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement came to the same conclusion. Data from the city of Los Angeles in the early 2000s showed no evidence that immigrants committed an excessive number of crimes compared to those people born in the United States.
Other research came to the same conclusion. The General Accounting Office found that foreigners accounted for 19 percent of the crimes committed in the United States in the 1980s and the 1990s. During this time, foreigners made up 19.6 percent of the country’s population. Another study found that foreign-born men were less likely to be in prison than native-born men. Therefore, based on the data, it is safe to conclude that the fear of immigrant crime is an exaggerated fear in the United States.
There is another side to the equation. There is evidence that immigrants tend to feel uncomfortable reporting crimes because they are fearful of what might happen when they report them. They fear they could be deported, or they believe that the family should handle situations when crimes occur instead of the police or outside authorities. Additionally, some crimes are committed from locations outside of the United States such as credit card skimming or hacking into computer systems. Some foreign criminals have ties to crime syndicates in the United States. There also are some places near the border with Mexico where people sneak over the border to commit crimes in the United States and then return to Mexico. Additionally, sloppy record keeping may lead to fewer crimes being recorded. One criticism of some of the studies mentioned above is that they combined legal and illegal immigrant crime rates and used data from a nationally representative sample of people in the United States. If only the crime rates of immigrants who were in the country illegally were considered, and if where crimes were committed and from where these immigrants came would be factored into the equation, the results would be very different. As a result, the data that suggests that there isn’t a connection between immigration and criminal activities may be underestimating what actually is taking place.
https://cis.org/Report/Examination-US-Immigration-Policy-and-Serious-Crime

https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/what-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-illegal-immigration-and-criminal-activity