Vox
By Dara Lind
August 6, 2015
Donald
Trump managed to make a lot of points about immigration in a very short
time during tonight's debate. The three most significant were about 180
degrees wrong each.
Let's run through them:
Trump's claim #1: Nobody was talking about illegal immigration before Trump got into the race
Poor
Scott Walker. He was trying so hard to make himself the candidate who
stood strongly against both unauthorized and legal immigration. So was
Rick Santorum. Rick Perry
was using his Texas record to tout his ability to secure the border.
Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio were defending their records. Etc.
The
murder of Kathryn Steinle definitely helped make unauthorized
immigration and sanctuary cities major issues. It's impossible to say if
that would have happened in
a Trumpless world. But Trump wasn't even the one picking up on it —
conservative media, like Fox News, was.
That
said, it's definitely true that Trump is speaking to the anxieties of a
segment of Republican voters about immigration in a way other
candidates aren't.
Trump's claim #2: Mexico is deliberately sending criminals to the United States
Arguably,
the Mexican government wants immigration reform as badly as some
American politicians do. And the country's leaders understand they have
to help with border
security to make that happen. At present, the Mexican government is
actually taking the lead on apprehending people (including children and
families) from Central America.
Oh,
right, and, as Marco Rubio pointed out, Mexico isn't even the largest
unauthorized-immigrant-sending country to the US as of last year.
Trump's claim #3: He knows criminals are coming over because he went to the border with Border Patrol
He
was going to, but the local Border Patrol union that had invited him
pulled out at the last minute. The reason: The national union was
worried about the appearance
of them endorsing a candidate. So basically, Trump just implied the
very thing that the union wanted to prevent: that the Border Patrol
stands with Trump.
For more information, go to: www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
No comments:
Post a Comment