{"id":63136,"date":"2024-09-29T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63136"},"modified":"2024-09-29T15:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:54:55","slug":"ouch-trumps-flagrant-lies-about-14000-criminal-migrants-gets-a-devastating-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63136","title":{"rendered":"OUCH! Trump’s Flagrant Lies About 14,000 ‘Criminal’ Migrants Gets a Devastating Fact-Check"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of important issues facing the nation today. They range from the economy to healthcare to the climate crisis to foreign wars. But without question the primary issue that Donald Trump has latched onto for his horror show of a campaign to reoccupy the White House is immigration.<\/p>\n

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To be sure, immigration is an important issue. And there have been some earnest attempts to deal with it responsibly. For instance, there was a bipartisan bill that passed in the Senate that would have addressed the matter in a comprehensive way. Unfortunately, it was Trump who sabotaged the bill by coercing his MAGA confederates in the House of Representatives to kill it because it might help his Democratic challenger. And that wasn’t even the worst of his demented views on immigration…<\/p>\n

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For the past week Trump has been obsessed with a report that he said reveals shocking statistics about immigration and crime. He has posted numerous comments on his floundering social media scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, and referenced the statistics at his recent cult rallies. There’s just one problem: He is grossly misrepresenting the data to advance his racist views on immigrants who he regards as mostly murderers, rapists, and other manner of ne’er-do-well. Let’s examine a sample<\/a> of Trump’s remarks…<\/p>\n

“14,000 CONVICTED thugs and slimeballs who have committed MURDER have been allowed to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, and roam free to KILL AGAIN…Kamala is a FOOL to have let this happen to our beautiful USA. It is totally unjustifiable, there can be nothing worse! She should be IMPEACHED for what she as done to our Country!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We can set aside Trump’s infantile insults of Harris and his impotent demands that she be impeached. Instead, let’s focus on his ludicrous reference to the “14,000 CONVICTED thugs and slimeballs”<\/em> that he says are “roaming free” to kill. That number was drawn from a report issued by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Trump is flatly asserting that all of these criminal migrants entered the U.S. during the Biden-Harris administration and that they – and specifically Kamala Harris – are responsible for it.<\/p>\n

However, Trump, as usual, is lying. As Politico reports<\/a><\/strong>, “The majority of these individuals with criminal convictions were already on the non-detained docket and living in the United States before Biden took office.”<\/em> The “14,000”<\/em> is actually the total for a period of some 40 years<\/a><\/strong>. The number increased by only 5% during Biden’s term. And the increase that occurred during Trump’s term<\/a><\/strong> was nearly twice as much.<\/p>\n

What’s more, according to Politico’s research, “The numbers also include nonviolent and petty crime \u2014 126,000 are for traffic violations, while 92,000 are for immigration-related crimes (like crossing the border illegally).”<\/em> And whatever the actual number of violent criminals is, it would be fewer if the Senate immigration bill that Trump killed were to pass. The bill\u00a0explicitly provided funding to process, and expedite deportation if necessary,\u00a0migrants who committed crimes.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that no amount of migrant criminals released into the U.S. population is acceptable. But being realistic, there are criminals in every subset of human groups. Even native-born Americans. And as it turns out, “Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that a tiny fraction of a percent of undocumented immigrants have been convicted of any crime. The vast majority are harvesting our food, building our homes, and caring for our elderly. So contrary to Trump’s fear mongering that “If Kamala is reelected, your town, and every town just like it…across our country…will be transformed into a third-world hellhole,”<\/em> bloodthirsty and\/or jaywalking migrants are not taking over our country.<\/p>\n

The only criminal that America really needs to be worried about right now is Donald Trump. He’s the native-born miscreant with 34 felony convictions, civil liabilities for sexual assault and financial fraud, and 50+ more felonies pending for crimes ranging from election interference to inciting a deadly insurrection. Trump is by far the greatest risk to the safety and welfare of the American people.<\/p>\n

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