Category: Immigration

There is no link between immigration and crime

Trump keeps blaming crime on immigrants.  He just wants to ramp up the white nationalism in many of his supporters.

This idea has been disproven repeatedly.  Here’s the latest:

More from the article: “In general, the study’s data suggests either that immigration has the effect of reducing average crime, or that there is simply no relationship between the two, and that the 54 areas in the study where both grew were instances of coincidence, not cause and effect. This was a consistent pattern in each decade from 1980 to 2016, with immigrant populations and crime failing to grow together. ”

update:

Trump lies as usual at his Nashville rally

Fact checks on Trump’s rally this week.  I don’t think he can give a speech without lying.  It’s scary when he incites the crowd to call MS-13 animals.  They’re bad people but they’re still people.

USA Today

Politifact

FactCheck.org

NBC News

Associated Press

MSNBC

CNN

Minute by minute account

Video of the rally

and there’s this:

Trump’s policy is separating children from families

Trump lied when he tried to blame the Obama and the Democrats for his own policy of separating children from families when they try to enter the US.

The Trump DHS policy

Trump’s original lie:

Trump’s talk about immigrants in private is as bad as his public comments

From this article, here’s a description of Trump’s comments at a meeting to prepare for a speech to Congress:

“Trump reminded them the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. Acting as if he were at a rally, he then read aloud a few made-up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, such as rape or murder. Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country — as they did when he highlighted crimes by illegal immigrants at his rallies, according to a person present for the exchange and another briefed on it later. Miller and Kushner laughed.”

Trump called some illegal immigrants “animals”

This opinion column on Trump’s “animals” comment puts in the contest of prior Trump statements.

The White House justifies his comment:

Nobody wants to defend MS-13!

DACA

Most Americans support DACA.  The most recent poll I could find shows 83% approval.  Even 67% of Republicans support it.

However, Trump created a crisis by trying to end the program and Republican congressional leadership is not willing to let the House vote on bills to decide the fate of DACA. 

Conservative Republicans don’t want a vote – they only care about politics.  From this article:

“McCarthy had a blunter message, according to two members present who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting and as first reported by Politico: Signing the discharge petition and paving the way for passage of a moderate immigration bill could hurt Republicans in November’s elections by depressing conservative turnout and upending leadership’s plans to focus on tax cuts and other GOP successes.”

This is a pathetic effort to avoid doing what the public wants.  Sad!