Two days ago, the Washington Post ran a profoundly illogical immigration story that I wish every black-piller would read. Here’s the headline as it appears, because it is such wonderful news:

WaPo’s entire argument can be summed up in one stupid logical fallacy that it was too chicken to say out loud: illegals who haven’t been convicted yet should be left alone because the threat of deportation makes them anxious. Go ahead and guffaw.

The article treats unconvicted migrants as harmless, innocent doves, ignoring things like their burden on the welfare system, illegal voting risks, economic harms to domestic wages or rents, and skewing of demographics that award too many congressmen to blue states. Nor does it mention a single other country’s immigration policy.

If, say, I was in Germany and had overstayed my visa, I’d be anxious, too. I doubt the German authorities would credit a euro on whether I’d been convicted of some crime or not. If they caught me, I’d expect an unpleasant interview and —schnell!— to be processed faster than a bratwurst during Oktoberfest.

But set the WaPo’s obvious inability to reason aside. The article was packed with great news. It even made charts that I could paste straight into my list of Trump Administration Achievements. First, seven month into 2026, immigration arrests already beat all of 2025:

Thanks, WaPo! Next, it showed us that, except for a 3-month dip after the Minneapolis nonsense and during the handoff between Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin, deportation arrests have increased every single month —with July reaching the record peak— and now totaling over 500,000.

Finally, especially in states not historically known for immigration problems, arrests of garden-variety immigration offenders jumped by over 100% in some places. WaPo even gifted us a handy map:

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but most Americans —certainly those who voted for Trump in 2024— never expected that the focus on deporting criminally convicted aliens would last forever. Unlike the WaPo’s editors, we did not assume there was an infinite supply of convicted criminals who are also illegal aliens.

Thus, the fact that ICE is running out of low-hanging fruit is terrific news. The hardened criminals are almost gone. Now ICE can get back to doing the hard work of enforcing our immigration laws, just like every other country on Earth. I will add, without further comment, that the historic fall in crime rates tracks neatly with deportations.

There were two other terrific unintended qualities of the WaPo’s article. First, both it and its cherry-picked immigration experts have, apparently, conceded that at least some illegals should be aggressively removed. That’s progress.

Second, and more surprising, were the reader comments. About half included the usual “No Kings” hysteria about sending kids and grandmas back to Haiti. (Even though until last January they sang the praises of that benighted country. Liberal memories are short. I guess Haiti is an s-hole country after all.) But the other half of the comments defended the deportations, even after reading all WaPo’s heart-rending rhetoric about two immigration activists killed after assaulting ICE agents.

We are winning the argument. The deportations have overcome lawfare, liberal judges escorting illegals out the back door, NGOs, riots, corporate media propaganda, doxxing, and every other ridiculous obstacle Democrats could throw in front of them. This article unintentionally proved TAW.