The Pink Tax Return — Here’s Why Immigration Was Never The Problem But Patriarchy All Along New York, New York — October 29, 2025
Anyone fighting for the removal of “dangerous illegal immigrants” has been mislead by our common era of misinformation. Multiple studies have found that immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, are less likely to commit violent crimes than U.S.-born citizens.
If you don’t want people from other countries coming into this one, fine. You’re entitled to your opinion (it’s illogical one, considering everyone here descended from immigrants, but whatever). Just don’t pretend you’re some kind of anti-crime crusader. Because statistically, immigration isn’t driving crime — men are.
White Men Lead in Violent Crime Arrests
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, men accounted for 78.9% of all violent-crime arrests in 2019. That’s nearly four out of five arrests, this includes of all races and yes the white man is leading. So if violence is what we’re worried about, maybe the threat isn’t crossing the border, maybe he’s sitting next to you on the subway.
Unfortunately, we can’t just remove every man and build the beautiful, women-led society of our dreams. (Tragic I know), But we can at least stop letting politicians scapegoat immigrants for a problem they didn’t create.
The “dangerous immigrant” narrative isn’t about safety, it’s about control.
It’s the same energy as “pro-lifers” trying to “save life” while refusing to fund adoption programs, or teach sex education. You don’t get to declare what the problem is, that’s what statistics are for.
Conservative talking points love to weaponize fear. When news coverage spotlights a violent incident and immediately highlights the suspect’s immigration status… the first scapegoat is always immigrants. Never mind that mental health, healthcare access, and economic inequality are all proven predictors of violent crime. If the government can redirect your fear toward immigrants, you won’t ask why the systems that actually prevent violence, education, healthcare, community programs, are still underfunded.
If male violence could be recognized as the structural issue, we could be addressing gun access, male loneliness, mental health and toxic masculinity, as opposed to mass deportations and prison detention centers.
The Problem is Patriarchy
The truth is uncomfortable: when boys are raised to suppress anger, sadness, and affection, they grow into men without the emotional tools that keep society safe empathy, friendship, vulnerability.
As Focus for Health explains, “Gender violence has its roots in the socialization of men to be more powerful than women and that they are taught to gain power by dominating others. Toxic masculinity hurts everybody.”
This is patriarchy. A system that teaches dominance over connection, control over care, and power over partnership. And like most systems, it hurts the people inside it just as much as the people beneath it.
Women, on average, are more likely to build deep, sustaining friendships emotional safety nets that help people process pain before it turns into harm. Women tend to handle the emotional labor inside relationships as society integrates women to be nurturers.
From the very beginning, society installs rigid gender roles that trap everyone. Men are pushed toward emotional isolation; women toward emotional labor. It’s only through education, self-awareness, and the willingness to confront those patterns that we can start to break them and build a culture that values emotional health as much as physical safety.
Patriarchy loves to point the finger anywhere but at itself.
If you’re busy fearing immigrants, you’re not asking why male-dominated institutions keep failing us. You’re not asking why guns are easier to get than therapy. You’re not asking why men are killing women, children, and each other at epidemic rates or why the systems that could fix it are dismissed as “woke agendas.”
And that distraction is the point. Scapegoating immigrants keeps the spotlight off the systems that actually produce violence. It’s easier to blame people crossing a border than to confront the culture of dominance, emotional suppression, and unchecked power at home.
The problem isn’t immigration. It’s patriarchy.
