March for your
country, family and neighbors, your heart, and very soul of your body!
You could be next!
Remember Nazi
Germany!
Most immigrants are in the U.S. legally, something most Americans
don’t know
President Trump wants to reduce
legal and illegal immigration, but apparently has no qualms about scapegoating
every immigrant in the process. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
Misinformation
about America’s immigrant population is rampant.
Some of it is based
on bad data.
Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk
a claim on Wednesday that more than a
third of the murders in America are committed by immigrants in the country
illegally.
While it should be obvious to an impartial observer that this claim
is questionable, Kirk appears to have calculated it based on data published in
at the Hill.
That article
claimed that a tally of murders by the Government Accountability Office
covering
among immigrants in
the country both legally and illegally was, instead, just homicides by
undocumented immigrants from 2005 to 2008.
Kirk is a strong supporter of
President Trump and vice versa.
(Earlier that day, Trump had called him a
“spectacular person.”)
Kirk’s willingness to present a bit of data that matched
Trump’s rhetoric may have made him more likely to accept the flawed numbers from
the Hill.
Some of the
misinformation, on the other hand, appears to be intentional.
Trump’s own
repeated insistence that immigrants bring crime has been debunked repeatedly,
including
He said it at the outset of his
campaign, and it was debunked, and he kept on saying it. A new poll from Pew
Research Center, for what it’s worth, shows that most Americans know that Trump is
incorrect. Sixty-five percent of Americans say that immigrants are not more
likely to commit serious crimes than native-born Americans, which is true.
(Quite the opposite.)
