Blood libels
Ugh, god, this is so stupid and so vicious.
President Donald Trump on Friday put a spotlight on families who lost loved ones killed by undocumented immigrants — calling them victims of “permanent separation” — as he sought to shift the attention away from his administration’s recently halted policy of separating migrant families at the border.
Some undocumented immigrants turn out to be criminals…because some percentage of any large population will turn out to be criminals. Immigrants are in fact less likely to be criminals than non-immigrants.
“You know, you hear the other side. You never hear this side. You don’t know what’s going on. These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones. The word permanently being the word that you have to think about,” the president said Friday afternoon.
“They’re not separated for a day or two days. These were permanently separated because they were killed by illegal aliens. These are the families the media ignores. They don’t talk about them. Very unfair.”
While any death is tragic, a February 2018 study by the Cato Institute using 2015 crime statistics from Texas found immigrants in the country illegally were 25 percent less likely to be convicted of homicide than native-born Americans. (Legal immigrants were 87 percent less likely.)
According to the study, immigrants in the country illegally were also 11.5 percent less likely than native-born Americans to be convicted of sexual assault and 79 percent less likely to be convicted of larceny.
Take notes, Donald.
A separate March 2018 study in the journal Criminology looked at whether violent crime increases as the number of immigrants living illegally in a community goes up. Researchers found it does not. If anything, the opposite is true: Violent crime appears to fall when more immigrants are living in a community illegally.
Trump disputed those findings during his White House event Friday but he did not offer evidence to the contrary.
In the past, the president has exaggerated threats facing the U.S. to justify his travel ban, tough-on-crime measures and a now-folded commission on voter fraud.
In other words he has lied about such things, over and over, including after people have told him he’s talking shite.
This isn’t about facts. This is about whipping up emotions, about driving people to fear immigrants.
I know. Blood libels.
Ophelia
That’s funny. In a totally NOT kinda way.
But he doesn’t want to talk about the permanent separation of young unarmed black men from the families that loved them, separated by paranoid and bigoted police officers.
What’s so downright jawdropping about all this is…
America is a nation of immigrants!
Not a nation of Judeo-Christians or a nation of whites or a nation of gun-owners, but…
A nation of IMMIGRANTS!
That’s why it’s so great. Anyone from anywhere in the world can be just as much an American as anyone else, if they want to.
In fact, if aliens landed in NYC tomorrow from the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, they too could become Americans if they wanted to.
It’s about values, not “blood and soil.”
And that’s why Trump, unlike an aspiring Mexican or Somali immigrant, is NOT an American.
Hatred, fearmoning and the politics of division are not American values.
What part of “E Pluribus Unum” does that nazi f**k not understand?
Well said, iknklast. This is what makes him so maddening. He pretends to care about someone because it suit his purposes but the truth is those poor families were nothing but tools to him. The grotesque signing of those photos was the kicker for me, I mean who the fuck would think that was appropriate?
I’d really like to see someone (i.e. the Democrats) make hay with this one, pointing out his lack of interest in not only all those African-Americans needlessly killed by police, but also the families of kids killed in school shootings, Heather Heyer’s family who lost a daughter to a white supremacist and the multitudes who lost their health insurance because of his attacks on the ACA and now face a death sentence.