{"id":2243,"date":"2018-02-06T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/trumps-false-claims-about-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:37:00","slug":"trumps-false-claims-about-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-false-claims-about-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s False Claims About Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump has repeatedly lied about crime in America to try and push his anti-immigrant agenda. Today is no different, as Trump will hold a White House event to further fearmonger and make more false claims about immigrants.<\/p>\n

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See the truth here:<\/p>\n

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Trump falsely conflates MS-13 gang members with undocumented immigrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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BuzzFeed<\/a>: “Trump Keeps Trying To Link MS-13 Gang Violence To Immigrants. The Data Show Otherwise.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Despite Trump’s fearmongering, immigrants committed fewer crimes on average than native-born Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PBS<\/a>: “Immigration Doesn’t Bring Crime Into U.S., Data Say”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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USA Today<\/a>: “Legal Immigrants Do Not Cause Crime, Records Show”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NBC News<\/a>: “No Evidence Undocumented Immigrants Commit More Crimes”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: “Trump’s repeated statements about immigrants and crime underscore a common public perception that crime is correlated with immigration, especially illegal immigration. But that is a misperception; no solid data support it, and the data that do exist negate it.<\/strong> Trump can defend himself all he wants, but the facts just are not there.”<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration released a “misleading” report trying to link immigration and terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Politifact<\/a>: “Donald Trump’s Team Misleads In Tying International Terrorism Report To Immigration” <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Talking Point Memo<\/a>: “Misleading Trump Admin Report Links Immigration, Terrorism”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Daily Beast<\/a>: “Team Trump Bypassed DHS Analysts To Produce Bogus Terror Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trump seized on MS-13 to paint Latino immigrants as gang members, even though MS-13 represents less than 1% of the U.S. gang population.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Washington Post’s Cruz<\/a>: “But in pointing to MS-13 to try to scare Americans into harsh new immigration restrictions, Trump is overstating the danger the gang poses here in the United States. <\/strong>Worse, by using the gang to demonize all Latino immigrants, Trump is building inner-city walls that alienate communities and risk making criminal organizations more powerful, both here and overseas.”<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a>: “Per the FBI’s most recent statistics, the roughly 10,000 MS-13 members are a fraction of the estimated 1.4 million members of US gangs nationally<\/strong>, and made up less than 10% of the arrests in ICE’s gang crackdown announced last week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump has repeatedly lied about crime in America to try and push his anti-immigrant agenda. 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