Category: Trump bigotry

Why Trump is emphasizing immigration

This tweet explains it perfectly.  Republicans can’t run on the issues so Trump falls back on bigotry to motivate his base.  I’m sure he’ll go back to bashing the NFL when it gets closer to football season.  (To be fair, a new poll shows people are giving him good marks for the economy.)

The real reason Trump is opposed to immigration

 

Trump even wants to cut legal immigration. This would extend the time whites are the majority here.

Trump’s border hoax

Trump knows immigration was a very successful issue for him since the first day of his campaign. He has created this crisis to rile up his base. I think he really doesn’t want to settle it before the 2018 election so he can keep ranting about immigration.  This week, he sabotaged Republican efforts to make an immigration law.  Democrats had earlier offered to fund the wall but he turned that deal opportunity down too.

This is an excellent column by Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post.  She writes:

“The hoax is the premise that President Trump’s administration has invented to rationalize such crimes against humanity: his narrative that America has been “ infest[ed]” with hordes of crime-committing, culture-diluting, job-stealing, tax-shirking, benefits-draining “aliens.”
No part of that description is remotely true. Yet the Trump administration seems to have successfully shifted the national dialogue away from “Do we have a border immigration problem?” to “What’s the right way to fix our border immigration problem?””

This article states “…there is evidence, in federal data and on the ground in places like Brownsville that the immigration crisis Mr. Trump has cited over the past week to justify the separation of families is actually no crisis at all.”

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Immigration is good for the economy

Trump paints immigration as bad for American workers but it’s actually good for the economy.

Facts on immigration and the economy

This article states: “There is broad agreement among academic economists that in the long run, immigration has a small but positive impact on the labor market outcomes of native-born workers, on average.”

and

“The salient point here is that earlier immigrants are the group that is most adversely affected by new immigration. This is because they are often the most substitutable for new immigrants, often living in the same places and possessing similar skills. But for native-born workers, the effects tend to be very small, and on average, modestly positive.14 This is useful for reminding policymakers that native-born workers have little to fear as far as immigration’s labor market impact is concerned.”

Trump’s zero-tolerance policy is bad for the economy.

This column states: “Yes, part of welcoming newcomers into the fold is about honoring our immigrant heritage. But just as important is understanding that immigration has been mitigating the effects of our shrinking workforce, a lower birthrate and an aging society.
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas economists estimate that immigrants and their children comprised more than half of the US workforce growth in the last 20 years and expect this group to make up an even larger percentage over the next 20 years. ”

This column on prejudice against immigration states:

“So far, empirical evidence suggests that countries with a larger variety of immigrants are richer, more productive and more innovative. Regions that receive more immigrants grow faster. And immigration may actually improve the institutions of the countries immigrants go to.”

 

 

 

“Infest”: Language as a weapon

Trump has called some illegal immigrants “animals” and today said Democrats want them to “infest” our country.  It’s an effort to appeal to the bigots that are a large part of his base.

Here are some tweets on Trump’s disgusting language.

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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. ”

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Trump endorses another bigot

Trump has now endorsed Corey Stewart who won the Republican primary for the Senate in Virginia.  He’s another extremist like Roy Moore.  Like Trump, he thought the bigots in Virginia included good people.  Even the Republicans in the Senate are not pushing this guy but Trump is.

New York Times Fact Check

The article states: “After the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in August, when one of the participants drove into a crowd and killed a counterprotester, most Virginia politicians specifically condemned the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who had organized and marched in the event. But Mr. Stewart adopted similar language to President Trump, saying that “half the violence” was the fault of the counterprotesters, including “far-left nut cases.”
“People condemned all those far-right agitators, but no one seemed to condemn the left wing,” he told WTOP, a Washington radio station. “Clearly, half of that violence was committed by left-wingers.”
He denounced other Republicans for apologizing and condemning the violence, saying they were playing into liberals’ hands.”