This is what happens when the government has an interest in not studying a problem: We can’t accurately measure the relationship between crime and illegal immigration because the federal government downplays the information. Statistics on illegal immigrant arrests exist at the state and county levels, but the federal government doesn’t compile or track this. According to J. Christian Adams, a former attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, some states do track the relationship between crime and illegal immigration, but they do it in secret because of the policies set by the Obama administration. (We should also note that the DOJ stopped releasing its data on interracial violent crime in 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected.) “There are a lot of reasons states don’t make this information readily available and there is no clearinghouse of data at high levels,” Adams said. “These numbers would expose how serious the problem is and make the government look bad.” According to a Fox News estimate, illegal immigrants commit 13.6% of the crimes in the United States, a number disproportionately large to the size of the demographic. This can be seen at a local level. For example, since San Francisco instituted its “sanctuary city” policies, the rate of rapes and murder in the city has spiked. But like its approach to the Syrian Civil war, the Obama administration places ideology before objective observation.