Oops… guess migrants aren’t causing a crime wave. Just the opposite.

An
@NBCNews review of available 2024 crime data from cities targeted by Texas’ “Operation Lone Star” — which transports migrants from the border to cities in the U.S. — shows overall crime levels dropping in cities that have received the most migrants.

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Overall crime is down year over year in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, New York and Los Angeles. Crime has risen in Washington, D.C., but local officials do not attribute the spike to migrants.

“This is a public perception problem. It’s always based upon these kinds of flashpoint events where an immigrant commits a crime,” explains Graham Ousey, a professor at the College of William & Mary and the co-author of “Immigration and Crime: Taking Stock.” “There’s no evidence for there being any relationship between somebody’s immigrant status and their involvement in crime.”