Trump Has Lied And Twisted Facts To Justify His Harsh Immigration FACT-CHECK...

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06/30/2018 11:45 pm ET
Trump Has Lied And Twisted Facts To Justify His Harsh Immigration Policies


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-lies-immigration-family-separations_us_5b3689cfe4b08c3a8f6a3b73

The Trump administration has repeatedly misled the public about undocumented immigrants, family separations and its zero tolerance policy.



The national outrage against the Trump administration’s separation and detention of migrant families at the southern U.S. border has not let up in recent weeks.

President Donald Trump’s zero tolerance policy ― which refers all unauthorized migrants crossing the border for criminal prosecution ― has led to officials separating more than 2,000 children from their parents. In an executive order last week, he halted family separations at the border, opting instead for locking up immigrant parents and kids together indefinitely.

In trying to justify the harsh immigration crackdown, Trump and top members of his administration have repeatedly lied or made unsupported claims about undocumented immigrants, U.S. immigration policy and what is happening at the border.

Here’s a fact-check on some of the misleading statements and outright lies that Trump and his officials have spread about immigration and the zero tolerance policy.



1. Trump has repeatedly exaggerated the scale of the “crisis” of unauthorized immigration on the border.

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FACTS: According to a Customs and Border Protection report, the rates of unauthorized crossings at the U.S. border in 2017 were “at the lowest level… on record.”

When looking at the government’s statistics for the first half of 2018, the rate of unauthorized entries, while higher than last year’s, are consistent with rates over the past five years: The Border Patrol apprehended 51,900 people at the southwest border in May 2018, compared with 19,900 in the same month of 2017 and 55,400 in May 2016.

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2. Trump repeatedly associated undocumented immigrants with high crime.

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FACTS: There is no evidence to support claims that immigrants commit more crime than U.S. citizens. In fact, according to multiple studies, immigrants — both documented and undocumented — are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens.

In a study published in March in the Criminology journal, researchers looking at crime statistics from 1990 to 2014 found that “increases in the undocumented immigrant population within states are associated with significant decreases in the prevalence of violence.”


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3. Trump lied about 63,000 people being killed by undocumented immigrants since 9/11.
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4. Trump has falsely associated MS-13 with undocumented immigrants.

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5. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen perpetuated a false narrative that MS-13 was using kids to pose as families at the border.

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1. K&R for visibility.

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5. Touche'!

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2. KICK to High Heaven!

Mahalo, rivers!

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6. K&R

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7. K & R x1000

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8. oops, the real number of homicides/day

committed by aliens is 10x less - or, 1.2 per day not 12 per day. And, that is ALL aliens - those here legally and illegally.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/22/the-original-source-for-trumps-claim-of-63000-immigrant-murders-bad-data-from-steve-king-in-2005/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fbd5208dcd1e

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9. Trump has forgotten or twisted the talking points his handlers gave him.

He's nowhere near as smart as that headline seems to imply. He doesn't know shit about immigration, and doesn't care to. He just wants to rally a shrinking base by bashing furriners.