Short version: the President recited a completely fabricated (and ludicrous) statistic about immigrant murders today that originated with a Steve King blog post over a decade ago.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 22, 2018
Today Trump presented as fact a number so wildly wrong that even he found it hard to believe when he first heard it. https://t.co/hOTuYKVxwI
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 22, 2018
Trump is trying to distract from his cruel and avoidable family separation fiasco by parading people who have lost loved ones to crimes by illegal aliens, repeating his big lie that such immigrants commit a disproportionate share of all violent crimes. They do not.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 22, 2018
Trump repeated a parent's claim that 63,000 have been killed by illegal immigrants since 9/11. There's no apparent basis for this. That would be about a quarter of all murders; in Texas, which tracks this, illegal immigrants are charged with roughly 5% of homicides since 2011.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 22, 2018
Sad! 