There are several things wrong with this framing of trying to argue that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes, so sanctuary policies are not a big deal or a policy disaster:
1) Arrest rates aren't really comparable because of the nature of undocumented immigrants. They live in communities that are less likely to report crimes, less likely to turn them in, and less likely to cooperate with law enforcement. A lot of crimes simply aren't reported. They are also much harder to find as they often do not have one permanent address and often relocate.
2) Every study like this intentionally discounts many crimes, such as identity theft, which are common among illegal immigrants. In this case, it specifically oly focuses on certain subjective violent offenses.
People who don't respect immigration laws also tend not to respect other laws.
3) Far more importantly: This whole argument misses the point, which is that they don't have a right to be here. It's bad policy to release criminals who repeatedly commit crimes because it endangers the communities they terrorize. But it's much worse to do so with people who don't even have a legal right to be in those communities in the first place.
This is an 80-20 issue. If you poll people on whether an illegal immigrant who was arrested for a violent crime should be handed over to ICE for deportation, almost every sane and rational person would agree that they should be. Yet sanctuary jurisdictions repeatedly do not do so.
In fact, specifically in Fairfax County, Steve Descano brags about intentionally applying different standards to illegal immigrants to prevent them from being deported. Often lowering and dismissing charges. That has repeatedly led to him releasing people who have gone on to rape and murder innocent victims. Stephanie Minter's killer had 40 previous arrests before he murdered an innocent mother at a bus stop. He could have been deported after any of those, and she would still be alive, but instead, they kept dropping charges and refused to alert the feds. 3 of the 4 murders in Fairfax County this year have resulted in arrests of illegal immigrants with previous arrests.
If you don't understand why that's outrageous, I don't know what to tell you.
Chicago woman mocks Democrats by speaking in a squeaky, high-pitched voice, who say black people's voting rights are in danger.
The woman also called out the commissioners one by one to their faces.
"I'm 63 years old. I've been voting since I was 18. I have never had a problem voting..."
"So now you're all gonna drag black people in here, definitely some senior citizens, and gonna have them come up here and talk about how they're scared to vote... all that junk, when you know it's not true."
Heartbreaking: Vanderbilt star QB Diego Pavia becomes the first Heisman finalist since 2014 to go undrafted.
Pavia invited all his friends and family to watch the draft together in hopes of getting a call.
The setup for his draft party 😔💔
“You’re too small to ever have a child.”
That’s the sentence my husband left behind when he packed his bags.
I was born with dwarfism.
When doctors told us I couldn’t carry children, he decided that meant I couldn’t be a mother at all.
He walked out. I stayed. I signed the divorce papers alone in a silent apartment that still smelled like him.
For a while, I believed the silence.
Then one afternoon, I walked into a shelter.
In the corner of the room was a crib most people passed without stopping. Inside it — a one-year-old Black baby girl. Left at birth. No visitors. No one asking about her.
I picked her up.
She wrapped her tiny fingers around mine and didn’t cry.
That was it.
I signed the papers. I took Naomi home.
People stared at us.
They whispered.
They asked how I would carry her.
I carried her everywhere.
On buses.
Up staircases.
Through grocery stores and doctor’s appointments.
Through every hard year and every beautiful one.
And Naomi? She ran.
She ran faster than doubt.
Faster than the stares.
Faster than every limitation someone once placed on our family.
She grew into a track-and-field champion.
I stood in the crowd, watching her step onto podiums I never imagined we would reach.
I couldn’t bring a child into this world.
But I brought love into hers.
And somehow, I became the mother of the strongest girl in the world.
Activist investor Palliser Capital sent a letter to $7B Japanese toilet maker Toto and said it was “the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary”.
Toto known for its bidet toilets but the expertise in ceramics is crucial for memory manufacturing.
Per FT, “Toto’s chuck technology uses ceramics designed to remain stable at very low temperatures, helping hold silicon wafers firmly during chip production. That makes it relevant to cryogenic etching, which is expected to grow as memory chips become more layered and complex.”
Palliser believes Toto has a 5-year moat on the technology and should expand the operation.
Advances ceramics already make up 40% of Toto’s operating profit while being only <10% of revenue.
Toto is up +60% over the past year on their development.
Learn Trigonometry – Part 1: What is Trigonometry?
Trigonometry starts with right-angled triangles.
Understand opposite, adjacent, hypotenuse and master SOH CAH TOA easily.
Strong basics = strong problem solving!
Stay Connected with us ✌️
People Who Changed the World Forever 🌍
1) Telephone → Alexander Graham Bell
2) Theory of Evolution → Charles Darwin
3) Blood Circulation → William Harvey
4) World Map → Anaximander
5) Steam Engine → James Watt
6) Printing Press → Johannes Gutenberg
7) Light Bulb → Thomas Edison
8) Vaccination → Edward Jenner
9) Computer → Charles Babbage
10) Radio → Guglielmo Marconi
11) Television → John Logie Baird
12) Internet → Vint Cerf
13) Periodic Table → Dmitri Mendeleev
14) Theory of Relativity → Albert Einstein
15) Law of Gravitation → Sir Isaac Newton
16) Telephone Exchange → Tivadar Puskás
17) Airplane Flight → Orville & Wilbur Wright
18) Electric Motor → Michael Faraday
19) Polio Vaccine → Jonas Salk
20) X-ray → Wilhelm Roentgen
21) Penicillin → Alexander Fleming
22) Atomic Theory → John Dalton
23) Quantum Theory → Max Planck
24) Spacewalk → Alexei Leonov
25) First Map of Stars → Hipparchus
26) Human Space Travel → Yuri Gagarin
27) Heliocentric Theory → Nicolaus Copernicus
28) Airplane Propeller Concept → Leonardo da Vinci
29) Supersonic Flight → Chuck Yeager
30) AC Electricity → Nikola Tesla
A team of Brazilian doctors are using earwax to detect tumors with 100% accuracy. Earwax is lipid soluble and has a lower turnover rate than other biological fluids like blood, urine, sweat and tears—making it ideal for detecting longer term changes in metabolism.
The team hopes this new method will replace less accurate, more expensive methods like blood labs and urine tests.
Every pound you lose takes 4 pounds of pressure off your knees and 6 pounds off your hips.
A 5% reduction in body weight can result in a 50% reduction in joint pain.
Many people think they have knee or hip issues when it's a weight issue.
My sister is a former trauma surgeon and I was introduced to this fact years ago. The murder rate went down not for a lack of shootings but because we got much better at treating gunshot wounds. That's why the real question should be "what is your attempted murder rate." The answer in the U.S. is terrible.
This is wild! Scientists used liposuction to suck out ordinary white fat cells...then used CRISPR to turn into “beige” fat cells, which voraciously consume calories to make heat.
Then, they implanted them near tumors the way plastic surgeons inject fat from one part of the body to plump up another.
The fat cells scarfed up all the nutrients, starving most of the tumor cells to death.
These cells wiped out breast, colon, pancreatic, and prostate cancers by depleting shared resources.
They even used patient fat from mastectomies to target their own breast cancer.
Why Fat?: Easy to harvest (liposuction), edit, and reimplant safely – biocompatible, no migration risks.
Full article below 👇
Kansei Matsuzawa is best sports story of 2025:
▫️born in Tokyo
▫️wants to play pro soccer
▫️fails entrance exams (can’t play college)
▫️takes a trip to US and attends first NFL game at 19 (Rams-Raiders)
▫️loves it and wants to play in NFL
▫️learns to kick from YouTube videos of Seattle Seahawks kicker Jason Myers (couldn't find anyone in Japan to teach him)
▫️works at Morton's Steakhouse in Tokyo for 3 years (between 20 to 23) while training to become a football placekicker
▫️applies to American schools and only football program that offers is Hocking College in Ohio (a junior college) in 2021
▫️learns English and converts 12 field goals before transferring to University of Hawaii at Mānoa in 2023 (at 24)
▫️in the 2025 season, he converted 25 of 26 field goals (and 37 of 37 extra points)
▫️earns the glorious nickname "Tokyo Toe" and get named consensus All-American (U of Hawaii at Mānoa first ever player to receive the title)
▫️will enter the upcoming NFL draft and (hopefully) become a pro NFL player at 27