MACDONALD: Deporting Criminals Reduces Crime?

Democrats love crime, and that’s not hyperbole. These judges sneak them out the jury door, their prosecutors refuse to prosecute, and their legislators create lists of crimes no one is supposed to punish. Oh, and they refuse to arrest criminal illegals, block agents from arresting them, or, if in custody, let them go.

Criminals, trigger warning, are the ones doing the crime. If you get them off the street or out of the country, crime might just go down. [Related: MACDONALD: Democrats Are Not Just Soft on Crime – They Run For Office On It]

If safe streets matter, and they should, you might want to maybe not vote for the party of crime and murder – the Democratic Party.

New Justice Department federal survey data shows violent crime victimization fell 25% and property crime victimization fell 19% in 2025 from the rates in 2024.

The new data showed particularly steep declines in aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, and motor vehicle theft. …

“This report is proof that President [Donald] Trump’s ‘Make America Safe Again’ agenda is working,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a statement.

Wait, there’s more!

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these are the largest one-year reductions recorded since data collection began 53 years ago.

The reductions followed substantial increases during the previous four years, when felony violent crime rose 59% and violent crime, including misdemeanor simple assault, increased 42%.

Murder also declined sharply last year. The U.S. recorded about 4.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2025, a record low, down from roughly 5.1 per 100,000 in 2024. The murder rate has continued to drop. If preliminary FBI data showing an additional 18.4% decline during the first seven months of 2026 hold for the full year, the murder rate would fall to approximately 3.36 per 100,000.

John Lott seems to think there’s a connection between deporting criminals and fewer crimes.

The Department of Homeland Security says approximately 70% of illegal immigrants deported under the Trump administration had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.

The trend represents a reversal from the Biden years, when felony violent crime increased sharply as illegal immigration also reached record levels. During the Biden administration, at least 12.8 million illegal immigrants were encountered at the border, apprehended after illegal crossings, or classified as known gotaways. The total also excludes undetected border crossings. During some surges, officials pulled 80% or more of Border Patrol agents away from guarding the border, while 30% of the cameras in Border Patrol’s main surveillance system were broken. These gaps potentially allowed millions more illegal immigrants to cross the border undetected.


State prison data also illustrate the potential relationship between illegal immigration and crime. At the end of 2025, 7,113 illegal immigrants were incarcerated in New York, accounting for 14% of the state’s inmate population, at least 3.4 times illegals’ share of the state population.

That’s a lot of illegals, and that’s New York, where they let a lot of them loose if it’s a traffic stop that might connect them to more serious crimes. [Related: Democrats Blame Car Maker for Rise in Auto Thefts to Distract From Their Crappy Record on Crime]

In case you forgot, Barry the kids-in-cages guy wanted illegals pulled over for traffic stops reported to CBP. Do that today, and the AWFLS will blow their whistles and scream at whoever happens to be within their blast radius. Women defending child molesters, rapists, and many a woman-hitting, sexually abusing, violent felon.

You don’t have to love the tactics. Calling the National Guard in to provide a military presence to restore peace and order. I’m no fan of permanent deployments of this nature, but if the National Guard is the Militia, as the proglodytes like to claim, this is literally one of their jobs. Where civilian enforcement or civilian leadership has failed to keep Americans safe, the militia is the constitutional cure.

Y’all lost your hive minds when armed civilians stood watch over people and property during the Black Liberal Marxist riots but guess who didn’t get robbed or burned out. The folks who hired the guns. The people say you don’t want to do the job your civilian leaders tell their civilian police forces not to do.

Crime and chaos are the plan, and the Democratic Party does not care if your daughter, wife, husband, or brother is a casualty of their plan, which – given the first opportunity- they will reboot in a neighborhood near you.

Cheap gas is great if you’re able to buy some.

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  • Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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