Here’s an ad you won’t see this election year, but should: The migrant crime crisis is bullshit.

It’s a convenient, easy scapegoat used to justify harsh policies, sow division, and fuel the fearmongering machine that keeps their poll numbers afloat. But when you strip away the hysteria and actually look at the data, the truth is clear: migrants don’t drive crime.

Let’s get one thing straight. Migrants are fleeing violence, persecution, and economic despair. They aren’t coming to your country to commit crimes—they’re coming to escape them.

And yet, conservative leaders and media outlets continue to sell this fear that somehow, immigrants are turning neighborhoods into war zones.

It’s a lazy, harmful narrative with no statistical backbone. If anything, it’s a reflection of how little politicians want to focus on the real causes of crime—like poverty, inequality, and broken social systems.

But don’t just take my word for it. Let’s look at the numbers:

• According to a 2018 DOJ and DHS report, non-citizens make up only 6.4% of the federal prison population, despite being 13.7% of the U.S. population.

• The American Immigration Council found that immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes than native-born citizens, with increased immigration correlating with decreases in violent crime.

• FBI data reveals that as immigration increased over the past several decades, violent crime rates dropped significantly across the U.S., with no evidence linking higher immigration to more crime.

These are the facts. Yet, we’re bombarded with news stories that magnify the rare instances of crime committed by immigrants, creating the illusion that migrant crime is rampant. It’s not.

The migrant crime myth thrives because fear is a hell of a motivator. But it’s time we started demanding more from our leaders than using immigrants as political piñatas.

It’s not the migrants who are the problem. It’s the bullshit narrative that blames them for everything wrong in society. And that’s what needs to change.

The undecided voter is a lie we tell ourselves every election. They show up on TV, wringing their hands. Campaigns spend millions to convince them.

But they’ve already decided. They just don’t know it yet.

These voters aren’t liars. They believe their own story. But their gut knows the truth, even if their mouth won’t say it.

We love this myth. The media gets its drama. Campaigns get their strategy. And these “undecided” voters get to feel important. It’s a dance that makes everyone happy. Everyone except democracy.

The truth is harder. Most people made their choice long ago. Not with their head, but with their tribe. Their family. Their fears. Their wallet. The rest is just theater.

What matters isn’t the voter still thinking it over. It’s the American who stopped thinking about voting at all. While we chase the undecided, millions have decided to stay home. That’s the real crisis.

Voters do change their minds. But they don’t do it in October because of a TV ad. They do it slowly, when their life changes. When their job vanishes. When their kid gets sick. When their town dries up.

It’s time to kill this myth. Let’s stop pretending elections hang on some mystical group of deep thinkers. They hang on the people who show up.

The undecided voter isn’t torn. They’re just not paying attention. And that’s the biggest problem of all.