1 million Americans were killed by Trump's inability to correctly manage COVID. Every other nation on earth did better than America. We had the most deaths and infections on earth. The right want to talk about illegals killing people, but the most murders are committed by legal American-born citizens.
There were a series of studies done based on immigration in the State of Texas from the years 2012 to 2018. Every study reached the same conclusion. Undocumented immigrants are not the greatest threat of crime in this country.
"The study found that undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes."
National Institue of Justice,
Undocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Lower Than U.S.-Born Citizen Rate, September 12, 2024,
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf
They try blaming Democrats for the border, but there are two things wrong with their accusations.
“In fiscal year 2017, the last year of the Obama administration and the first of Trump’s, 303,916 migrants were arrested by the Border Patrol. This was the lowest level in more than three decades. The Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations had worked hard to tackle the problem of illegal migration through substantial increases in border security staffing, improvements in technology, innovations in strategy and improved security coordination and assistance to Mexico. Coupled with improved economic conditions in Mexico, these administrations were hugely successful in deterring and breaking the cycle of illegal crossing: Unlawful Mexican economic immigration, which had historically been the primary immigration enforcement issue at the border, dropped nearly 90 percent between 2000 and 2016.”
So how did border crossings go from a 40-year low to a crisis in 4 years? An article was published in Politico on April 5, 2019 titled: Yes, There’s a Crisis on the Border. And It’s Trump’s Fault. In this article, the authors argue that President Trump's singular focus on constructing a border wall—regarded as a vanity project—rather than addressing and reforming the asylum system contributed to the challenges at the border witnessed during President Biden's term.
“Despite the administration’s attempts to shift blame for the chaos, make no mistake: It is Donald Trump himself who is responsible. Through misguided policies, political stunts and a failure of leadership, the president has created the conditions that allowed the asylum problem at the border to explode into a crisis. The solution to our current border troubles lies in reforming the U.S. asylum system and immigration courts and helping Central America address its challenges—not in a “big beautiful” wall or shutting down the border. Yet effective action on these issues has been missing. And the president has now so poisoned the political well with his approach that there is little hope of meaningful congressional action until after the next election. Unless the administration changes course, the immigration crisis will only continue to worsen.”
These words were written nearly 2 years before Biden was sworn into office on January 20th, 2021.
Alan Bersin, Nate Bruggeman, Ben Rohrbaugh, Yes, There’s a Crisis on the Border. And It’s Trump’s Fault. Politico, April 5, 2019 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/05/border-crisis-donald-trump-226573/
Trump sabotaged a strong bipartisan immigration bill worked on by Republican James Lankford and Kyrsten Sinema. Then he blamed Harris for the problems during his campaign.
Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona, Lauren Fox and Ted Barrett, GOP senators seethe as Trump blows up delicate immigration compromise, CNN, January 25, 2024,
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal
He and the MAGA Republicans created a false narrative about the immigration bill. Trump made this statement proving that he can't read:
“Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day.” The problem with Trump opinion was that
the bill detained, screened, and then deported the first 5,000. If there were more than 5,000, then all illegals were detained and deported. The bill also gave “discretionary activation” to Homeland Security if there was an average of 4,000 per day over a 7-day period. If we put that in perspective, border encounters reached the 4,000 average in 2019 during the Trump administration.
Securing Our Southern Border,
Securing Our Southern Border - Senator James Lankford
All Trump has ever done is create huge problems where none existed, then blame others for the mess that he made. Now he is killing American citizens because of another mess he created.
