We have GOT to lower the crime rates in these so-called sanctuary cities. I have an idea that just might work.

After reviewing the data, the solution is obvious.

Everyone should stop blaming immigrants—and maybe look in the mirror.

In the very few places that actually track arrests per capita by immigration status (Texas does, which is why it’s always cited), the results are awkward:

U.S.-born citizens are arrested at higher per-capita rates than undocumented immigrants for violent crime, property crime, and drug offenses.

Not total arrests.

Not raw headcounts.

Arrests per person.

Undocumented immigrants are also incarcerated at lower per-capita rates than native-born Americans. This isn’t activism. It’s arithmetic.

As for those ominous “sanctuary cities”:

When you compare similarly sized cities and adjust for population, there’s no increase in violent crime. Sometimes crime is actually lower. Turns out people who really want to stay here tend to behave. Suspicious, I know.

This doesn’t mean immigrants never commit crimes. Of course they do. Humans remain undefeated.

It just means the claim that sanctuary policies “breed crime and violence” collapses once you insist on per-capita data instead of vibes.

So yes—I have an idea that just might work.

If we want to lower crime rates, maybe the group committing more crime per person should… commit less of it.

And while we’re crunching numbers, we might want to check the per-capita crime rate at the White House and consider a few deportations.

Or at least some incarcerations.

Radical, I know.