It's Hard to Believe, But When You Deport Tens of Thousands of Career Criminals, Crime in America Falls

How can this be?

If we're deporting so many criminals, how can crime still be dropping?

A report from the Department of Justice released Monday highlighted a significant drop in violent crime and other offenses from 2024 to 2025, which comes in the wake of the Trump administration's enforcement surge.

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Preliminary results from the National Crime Victimization Survey showed a 25% drop nationwide in non-fatal violent crime. Aggravated assault dropped 31%, while motor vehicle theft went down 30%.

Property victimization dropped 19%, burglary or trespassing went down 25%, and other household theft dropped 19%.

"This is what happens when you have an administration who prioritizes the safety and security of Americans and our communities," Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

Jared Stepman at the Daily Signal:

This much is undeniable: Trump's deportations and focus on border security have run alongside a remarkable national drop in crime. To dismiss this as a mere coincidence is as absurd as when we were told there was no crime surge following the George Floyd riots and police defunding in 2020 and the explosion of border crossings during the Joe Biden presidency.

The media--always quick to reinforce whatever narrative Democrats and the Left choose to peddle--have mostly tried to wave away the connection between crime and immigration law enforcement. They've run misleading headlines saying that Trump's deportations are not targeting criminals--let's leave aside the fact that all illegal aliens have broken U.S. laws--and that if they are, then the numbers of criminal aliens is negligible, they say.

But that's not true.

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The Trump administration is taking people off the streets who have not only committed crimes but are more likely to commit further ones in the future.

And that work continues even years after Trump was elected.

For instance, Immigration and Customs Enforcement nabbed over 2,000 illegal aliens in New York in July and August as part of Operation Rotten Apple--with no help from local authorities like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, of course. Among those arrested were "murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug traffickers, and violent assailants," according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

The arrests included, according to DHS:

"- Bogdan Detrovich Gren, an illegal alien from Ukraine, whose criminal history includes convictions for kidnapping, abduction resulting in death, criminal possession of a weapon, and murder.

-- Andreas Bernal Chiquito, an illegal alien from Colombia, whose criminal history includes arrests for course of sexual conduct against a child and act in manner to injure child less than 17.

-- Noel Celestino Lopez Martinez, an illegal alien from Mexico, whose criminal history includes an arrest for first-degree rape: forcible compulsion.

-Palvinder Singh, an illegal alien from India, whose criminal history includes a conviction for rape in Germany.

-- Chhun Kim Pril, an illegal alien from Cambodia, whose criminal history includes a conviction for drug trafficking."

And the list went on and on.

I would not have guessed that so many doctors and engineers were rapists, child molesters, and killers.

He quotes Carrie Lukas, who estimates that the mass deportation of violent criminals is responsible for 5,000 Americans being alive -- not being murdered, not being obliterated by drunk third-world drivers.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:49 PM

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