Meanwhile, data compiled by NCFIRE (North Carolinians for Immigration Reform and Enforcement) reveals that the state of North Carolina has arrested an average of 18 illegal aliens every month this year for the crime of child rape. Although this group claims that they “verify the illegal alien status of each individual we post in our Monthly Child Rape reports through the arresting agency of each individual,” a spokesperson for the Raleigh Police Department told us that they “were not familiar” with NCFIRE.ĭespite the multiple problems with the rape reporting, News Punch used these statistics to come up with their 10,800 figure: Immigration and Customs Enforcement), the majority of entries include links to news reports or mugshot pages that make no mention of immigration status. In other words, a number of individuals included in these reports have only been accused of crimes, and the charges against them may be dropped or found to be unsupported at trial.įurthermore, while some entries on this list link to genuine reports from ICE (U.S. In addition to including outdated charges and crimes other than rape in the “monthly child rape reports,” NCFIRE also appears to be counting arrests, not convictions. That person presumably was included in the 2018 report because of an arrest that year for failing to report an address change. We also found one individual who was included in the 2018 report even though he raped a child in 2011. For starters, while the data were compiled under the title “monthly child rape reports,” the supporting documents actually included a variety of sex-related crimes, such as possession of child pornography and “indecent liberties with a child,” that aren’t rape. Our inspection of their data, however, turned up a number of issues. NCFIRE purports to compile “monthly child rape reports” covering sexual assaults committed by illegal immigrants in North Carolina. This claim has multiple dubious aspects, starting with the NCFIRE data. children raped by illegal immigrants in 2018 was a staggering 10,800, according to data compiled by NCFIRE (North Carolinians for Immigration Reform and Enforcement).” On 30 December 2018, News Punch, a junk news website with a long history of spreading misinformation, published an article reporting that 10,800 American children had been raped by illegal immigrants during 2018: “The number of U.S.
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