Imagine being a voter in Srirangapatna, standing in front of a polling booth and trying to decide who deserves your vote. You rely on the candidate’s sworn affidavit—the official declaration of assets, liabilities, education, and criminal history—to understand who is asking for your trust. It is a document that is supposed to be truthful, complete, and binding. Now imagine discovering that one of the candidates quietly left out a piece of property he owned. The affidavit still looks neat and proper, but it does not tell the whole story. That, in essence, is the controversy that has reached the Karnataka…

Public policy is often built on stories before it is built on facts. The Trumpian immigration narrative has always been one of invasion—a dark tale of dangerous outsiders crossing the border to commit crimes, steal jobs, drain the welfare state, and spread chaos. This story has justified walls, travel bans, family separations, mass detention centers, and a constant cruelty at the border. But as The Daily News, Texas’ oldest newspaper, has made clear, the main rationales behind this policy vision are false. The evidence from criminologists, economists, and homeland security experts repeatedly contradicts each justification. Immigrant crime rates are lower…