Trump's "border crisis"
— Rick Newman (@rickjnewman) February 11, 2019
h/t @ALT_uscis pic.twitter.com/WLY2dRz8On
Category: Immigration
The number of Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. illegally has declined
Trump’s just making the immigration crisis up to excite the bigoted part of his base.
The number of Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. illegally has declined by more than 1 million since 2007 https://t.co/N3WNPSO7po
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) February 10, 2019
El Paso update
Beto O’Rourke will be holding a rally tonight at the same time Trump’s rally is happening. Once again, le me point out that El Paso’s crime rate was declining before they built a barrier there. Trump is lying again.
Pres Trump tells visiting sheriffs there's a big line of people outside his event in El Paso waiting to get in, and that rival Beto O'Rourke has a line too but it's a "tiny little line."
— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) February 11, 2019
No question what this @realDonaldTrump rally in El Paso is all about: pic.twitter.com/tTcIckusLp
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) February 11, 2019
Parked a couple blocks from the site of the @realDonaldTrump rally in El Paso. pic.twitter.com/jT28lADBZG
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) February 11, 2019
Trump tells reporters that 75,000 people signed up for his campaign rally tonight in El Paso but the arena holds only 8,000.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 11, 2019
CNN's @betsy_klein spoke with a source about Trump's rally in El Paso tonight. When she asked about Trump's repeated usage of widely-debunked stats about violent crime in El Paso, the source sarcastically responded, "LOL."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 11, 2019
The number of undocumented immigrants apprehended at the border has also declined in both cities. Apprehensions in El Paso have plummeted from nearly 120,000 in 2000 to 25,000 in 2017, according to US Border Patrol statistics. https://t.co/49OL01BIxa (6/8) pic.twitter.com/Z4mDIne5jT
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 11, 2019
.@realDonaldTrump claims El Paso, Texas used to be one of the nation's most dangerous cities, but became one of the safest after a border barrier was built. Crime data contradicts Trump's claim. His claim is False. https://t.co/zPylwuWuqE pic.twitter.com/v39Qnn4K05
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 11, 2019
Says Republican civic leader in El Paso: “Mexico is an economic and strategic ally of the United States, and an antiquated effort to place a barrier between us just won’t work.” https://t.co/kXatciMI09
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 11, 2019
The first photo is where @BetoORourke will speak tonight. The second is one of the many pro-Trump vendors set up across the street. The two sides will be thisclose together… with tensions high. pic.twitter.com/qQDehsg5HG
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) February 11, 2019
Fact check: Trump claims a wall made El Paso safe. Data shows he’s lying again https://t.co/fu09eFuQNq
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) February 11, 2019
El Paso officials denounce Trump’s border comments ahead of his 1st 2019 campaign rally https://t.co/CHsSCPAP8J pic.twitter.com/PijYJe2NXj
— ABC News (@ABC) February 11, 2019
President Trump's distorted view of life in El Paso | By Erin Coulehan for @CNNOpinion https://t.co/HTubxGBkRK pic.twitter.com/xHJWnxSh1k
— CNN (@CNN) February 11, 2019
Expect a very interesting discussion of crowd sizes Monday night. The El Paso County Coliseum, site of the @realDonaldTrump rally, can seat 5,000 to 6,000 depending on configuration. The outdoor counter rally has no real limitations and the forecast is clear and temps in the 50s. https://t.co/peJEdk2UOh
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) February 10, 2019
The real dangers locals in El Paso say they confront: Lowriders. Dehydration. A sizzling car steering wheel in the middle of summer.
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) February 11, 2019
Residents here are used to their city being mischaracterized as a war zone by outsiders. https://t.co/oX4qhmLKQP
The major context behind Trump's visit to El Paso tonight: The city is one of the safest metropolitan areas in the country — before and after the fencing was completed there in 2009 https://t.co/WO71C347bn pic.twitter.com/85hbDhbEkl
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) February 11, 2019
El Paso’s GOP Mayor Dee Margo just told us President was “wrong” when he claimed El Paso one of America’s most dangerous cities before border barrier. CNN fact-checked this after SOTU. Data shows crime fell long before construction, flat after installation. pic.twitter.com/DPAJBkAWol
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 11, 2019
El Paso mayor says President Trump is “wrong” to connect the city’s crime drop and border barrier https://t.co/qoquo6YuYv pic.twitter.com/Hj5aVBrHnP
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 11, 2019
Trump lies about El Paso
It hasn’t reduced crime because of a fence – it was already low. See Beto O’Rourke’s column below.
This is welcome. ☺️
— Dennis Herring (@dcherring) February 9, 2019
cc @TrueFactsStated https://t.co/rEdtU56jr6
No, a border barrier did not drive down crime in El Paso, Texas, contrary to @realDonaldTrump's claim https://t.co/zPylwuET24 pic.twitter.com/MH6jIFc9nA
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 9, 2019
Trump was misleading the country about wall and crime in El Paso before the State of the Union. He made a similar misstatement on Jan 14. Fact checks were written. He still used that false statement on Tuesday. https://t.co/h8sPkb99EP
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 7, 2019
“The trouble for Trump is that his claim about El Paso is simply false.” Via @wpjenna @PhilipRucker @BobMooreNews https://t.co/fR7mIRpgN8
— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) February 8, 2019
El Paso Sheriff Richard Wiles to NBC: "It is sad to hear Pres. Trump state falsehoods about El Paso, Texas in an attempt to justify the building of a 2,000 mile wall … El Paso was a safe city long before a wall was built. Pres. Trump continues to give a false narrative." @MSNBC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 6, 2019
Trump’s undocumented workers
Half the winter employees at Trump's Westchester golf course were present illegally in the United States. The Trump Organization seems to have violated US immigration laws on a serious scale – and it only began to clean up its act 2 years into Trump's presidency https://t.co/nWZbrSS9LS
— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 5, 2019
The workers say @realDonaldTrump paid them $8/hour to operate heavy equipment. No benefits.
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 8, 2019
A licensed, legal operator would have cost him $51/hour, including benefits. https://t.co/ltCdo2qBhF
Yes. These workers did present fraudulent documents.
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 8, 2019
Trump Org says its checks didn't show they were fraudulent, tho the Trump club did not take the most easily available step to improve those checks — enrolling in e-Verify. https://t.co/GJjnNeCEvM
We found this by FOIAing the last 13 years of calls for service at Trump's club, from the Bedminster PD. They gave us a stack of paper six inches thick. 90 percent of it was false-alarm calls.
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 8, 2019
This was in the other 10 percent. Our ace stringer Kim Kavin found it yesterday. https://t.co/ukKXJDn3eP
If we'd known about it then, we definitely would have reported it then.
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 8, 2019
This came to light b/c — after a @nytimes story last year profiled an illegal worker at Bedminster — @trump Org began firing its illegal workers en masse, driving them out of the shadows. https://t.co/NWYdwPZKLz
.@realDonaldTrump's biz has indicated they didn't know they had illegal workers until late last yr.
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 8, 2019
But in 2011, a Bedminster cop working a hit-and-run found a Trump worker using a fake name & papers. He told the club's head of security. 7 yrs ago. https://t.co/IzI1aVEMVr pic.twitter.com/fG9KnFKTZi
EXCLUSIVE: Undocumented workers at yet another Trump golf club lose their jobs as his company scrambles to contain the fallout of NYT revelations. https://t.co/o4fBBkSEhE
— Miriam Jordan (@mirjordan) February 2, 2019
Trump lied repeatedly in 2016 (big surprise) by saying he used E-Verify on his properties. In truth, he did on only a couple of them. It was good enough for 750,000 other American businesses, but not his. Typical. https://t.co/wweHfDJIMK
— Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) February 8, 2019
Trump lies about human trafficking
Do human trafficking and sex trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border mostly happen at ports of entry, or in remote areas of the frontier? Read what President Donald Trump said in the #SOTU and learn the facts about border trafficking in an #APFactCheck: https://t.co/w5yJXAjjBj
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) February 6, 2019
There is human trafficking that occurs, of course. What Trump and DHS haven't done is linked it to the border.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 6, 2019
Here are where human-trafficking suspects were in 2015, the most recent year for which there are data.https://t.co/E8sQaH3QVn pic.twitter.com/fvjnUCq4Ja
Another poll shows the majority doesn’t want Trump’s wall
The American people do not want Trump’s wall. Period. https://t.co/FnZ10ywuS3
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) February 4, 2019
NEW Gallup Poll:
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) February 4, 2019
-The Wall: 40% support, 60% oppose.
-81% support pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
-only 37% want to cut immigration levels, a massive drop from prior decades that continues to decline. https://t.co/BsjKlIl5dI
60% of Americans oppose Trump’s border wall https://t.co/WYHk56mdko
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 4, 2019
Two-thirds of Americans say an agreement to avert another shutdown is unlikely, most oppose Trump's proposed paths forward on a border wall. https://t.co/5XkTy7YPen
— Jennifer Agiesta (@jennagiesta) February 4, 2019
He’s trying to bully Congress by claiming he has a mandate. He’s bluffing. https://t.co/5nlUjTBtUf
— Slate (@Slate) February 2, 2019
Majority of Americans continue to say immigrants strengthen the U.S. #SOTU2019 https://t.co/xtSDSpxQRR pic.twitter.com/u3SWEQAQ0M
— Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) February 3, 2019
New CNN poll shows 1 thing clearly: People think the government sucks pic.twitter.com/nz7Y2jc730
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 4, 2019
We know what Trump is doing: putting on full display Republicans' war on women by grossly attacking Speaker Pelosi during her honest negotiations. He's doing so when his approval numbers among women continue plummeting.https://t.co/IG1o458kMq
— Jorge Antonio (@jorge_aguilarDC) February 2, 2019
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— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) February 4, 2019
Compared to five years ago, do you think race relations in the United States have gotten better, gotten worse, or stayed about the same?
Better 10%
Worse 59%
Same 30%
(Quinnipiac U. Poll, RV, 5/31 – 6/5/18)https://t.co/SbYaMCuW9R
71% of Republicans say they support another partial government shutdown if an agreement that includes funding for a border wall can't be reached via new @CNN poll
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) February 4, 2019
Trump's approval rating stands at 29% approve, 67% disapprove among Americans under 35 years old via new @CNN poll
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) February 4, 2019
Thousands more children separated from their parents
Monsters. Inhuman monsters.; https://t.co/o4cktNuSdT
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) February 4, 2019
This is what evil looks like. https://t.co/YMe6KjdsPt
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) February 4, 2019
BREAKING: Tonight the Trump administration filed documents that don’t dispute the recent report that there may have been thousands more separated kids. They’re arguing it would take too long to figure out where those kids are because they have no tracking system.
— ACLU (@ACLU) February 2, 2019
This is what I was trying to say in my long-winded prior tweet condemning the @realDonaldTrump Administration for refusing to find kids they separated from parents, but @pattonoswalt says it much more succinctly. https://t.co/gXtWGdgWQ1
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 2, 2019
Fix ICE, don’t get rid of it
ICE obviously has problems but there is still a need for its function. It just needs to have the right priorities concerning illegal immigration. Encouraged by Trump, who opposes immigration in general, it has become excessive.
Monsters. All horrible monsters. https://t.co/fJxwj9Ip7w
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 9, 2019
28 women may have miscarried in ICE custody over the past two years.
— ACLU (@ACLU) March 2, 2019
ICE has force-fed detainees on hunger strike in El Paso.
At least three people — two of them children — have died in Border Patrol custody in recent months. https://t.co/dVvMmtis8c
The moral stain on our nation grows with each day these innocent children are held by the Trump administration. https://t.co/V4KNkhNHmz
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 28, 2019
Pennsylvania judges are calling ICE on Hispanics who go to the courthouse for traffic hearings and marriage licenses https://t.co/vmWUPmPSSK @Slate pic.twitter.com/OQORcjrKA9
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 1, 2019
People being held in ICE detention sites are going on hunger strikes to protest conditions. ICE is force-feeding them. None of this should be happening in America. https://t.co/y7wdN0IyzL
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 1, 2019
One of ICE's favorite tricks is to arrest immigrants at the courthouse right before a scheduled hearing. When the immigrant don't appear in court, the judge issues a bench warrant—and ICE uses that warrant to help justify deporting him. https://t.co/vmWUPmPSSK @Slate pic.twitter.com/bREeXAHkSi
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 1, 2019
Correcting this: ICE reportedly created and sent fraudulent immigration court documents, packing courthouses Thursday with immigrants arriving for fake court dates, but the reports don’t connect it to detentions. https://t.co/wvSk7e0noQ
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 1, 2019
ICE also colludes with probation officers to get information about probationers' immigration status. When an undocumented probationer shows up for a regular check-in, ICE ambushes them at the courthouse and throws them in detention. https://t.co/vmWUPmPSSK @Slate pic.twitter.com/SHjrhKXndC
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 1, 2019
"Mass chaos" erupts at immigration courts after ICE hands fake hearing dates to migrants https://t.co/trTnad0AvE pic.twitter.com/B4t58g072t
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 1, 2019
Carmen Puerto Diaz and her husband were at the end of their marriage interview with Citizen and Immigration Services when an officer walked in with handcuffs: "I have an order to detain you" https://t.co/QVlC4yH3De
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 28, 2019
ICE put fake dates on deportation court summonses (known as a Notice to Appear, or NTA.) This is the second time this has happened since the Supreme Court ruled last summer NTA's must contain the time and date of the appearance.https://t.co/8GwcmHs7Tj
— Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸 (@HMAesq) February 1, 2019
60 second fact check: Is ICE really a deportation force? https://t.co/yhY4XAOWJq
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 1, 2019
22 immigrants died in ICE detention centers during the past 2 years, according to an @NBCNews analysis; half were under 45 years old. https://t.co/yNAbdNqYDn
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 6, 2019
Trump’s lie about women bound with duct tape
What it felt like to be in the Rose Garden today. “The entire extended, violent fantasy involving women bound with duct tape did not appear to be preprogrammed into the teleprompter at all.” @Olivianuzzi https://t.co/luPxgwcGvm
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) January 26, 2019
Perspective: Why does the president keep talking about women and duct tape on the border? https://t.co/Qcp1doJe7v
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 26, 2019
Did @gop @potus @realdonaldTrump Get His Blue Duct Tape and Prayer Rug Border Tales From the 'Sicario' Sequel? https://t.co/DF3w3TmGUd @tommyxtopher @mediaite @foxnews @msnbc @cnn @abc @nbcnews @cbsnews @abcnews @nbc @cbs @usatoday @washingtonpost @nytimes @wsj @thehill @huffpost
— Geoff Ninecow (@geoff9cow) January 30, 2019
"Vox’s source indicated that they and others in their sector hadn’t heard anything that would back up Trump’s claims…"https://t.co/xcynj53xVS
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) January 29, 2019
Trump is telling his "four women" "duct tape" "backs or cars or trucks" "desert areas" human trafficking tale again. Again, human trafficking experts tells me they've never heard of this happening; just isn't how it usually works. https://t.co/ZQAF6bvbKV
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019
#Trump is claiming:
1. Mexicans have amazing cars, better than the Border Patrol.
2. Women are crossing border bound up with tape.
3. Prayer rugs left in the desert.
Nobody has found ANY evidence, but all three can be found in #SicarioDayOfTheSoldado a recent fictional movie. pic.twitter.com/FyD6DkS6pF
— John Moffitt (@JohnRMoffitt) January 29, 2019
POTUS also told his tale of duct-taped women again, but in tonight's version there was also electrical tape, and he described it as "blue" at one point, per two attendees. One attendee thought blue was intended as a joke.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 29, 2019
Sad! 