evidence: He also casts migrants — many of them women and children escaping poverty and violence — as "poisoning the blood" of America with drugs and disease and claimed some are "not people." Experts who study extremism warn against using dehumanizing language in describing migrants. There is no evidence that foreign governments are emptying their jails or mental asylums as Trump says. And while conservative news coverage has been dominated by several high-profile and heinous crimes allegedly committed by people in the country illegally, the latest FBI statistics show overall violent crime in the U.S. dropped again last year, continuing a downward trend after a pandemic-era spike. AP-NORC POLL: More Americans are worried about legal immigration than they were a few years ago Studies have also found that people living in the country illegally are far less likely than native-born Americans to have been arrested for violent, drug and property crimes. "Certainly the last several months have demonstrated a clear shift in political support," said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of the immigrant resettlement group Global Refuge and a former Obama administration and State Department official.