Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, August 22, 2024. Border security has been a key feature for Trump…
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, August 22, 2024. Border security has been a key feature for Trump over the last eight years of his campaigning and presidency.
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While there have been changes in trends over the past five years — such as more migrants arriving from Latin America compared to Asia — migration levels have remained relatively steady, Kolko wrote.
The Cato Institute added in its analysis that the U.S. has seen its slowest immigrant population growth over the past decade since the 1960s, with much of that drop coming from a decline in arrivals from Africa and Asia.
Trump, however, has claimed that countries in Africa, as well as Latin America, have been emptying their jails and “insane asylums” to send those former inmates to the U.S.
Bier told Newsweek that it was easy to pick up on crimes committed by illegal immigrants to fit this narrative.
“What you don’t see is all the people who just mind their own business and go on with their peaceful way, working jobs,” he added.
Trump campaign doubles-down on border crisis
In recent weeks, the Trump campaign has pointed to issues around the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua causing issues in Aurora, Colorado, as well as unfounded claims of migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, as evidence of the need for a mass deportation policy.
On Friday, Trump promised that mass deportation plan, which has been questioned by those in his own party over its legality and feasability, would begin in these cities.
When asked where Trump was getting his numbers from and whether the former president was misleading voters on this issue, Karoline Leavitt, a campaign spokesperson, dodged the question, telling Newsweek the Republican candidate was the only one who would secure the border.
“Kamala Harris was named the Border Czar by Joe Biden and has been an epic failure at her job, directly overseeing the worst illegal immigration invasion crisis in history,” Leavitt said in a statement.
A person holds a sign that reads “Mass Deportation Now” and “Make America Strong Again” on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A person holds a sign that reads “Mass Deportation Now” and “Make America Strong Again” on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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“If dangerously liberal Kamala is President, our border will remain wide open to terrorists and criminals from around the world who will face no consequence for committing heinous migrant crimes, as Kamala has said she wants to decriminalize illegal immigration and has long supported soft-on-crime policies allowing violent criminals out of jail,” Leavitt continued.
“The border bloodbath will get bloodier, and more Americans will lose their lives.”
Bier, the Cato analyst, said that, in some ways, inflating immigration numbers could diminish Trump’s claims of high migrant crime rates, because a much larger migrant population would suggest they were committing “vanishingly few crimes” in the country.
It would also mean far fewer children were being born, per capita, while pressures on public services by migrants would be less than it’s made out to be.
“It misleads people into thinking that something totally extraordinary is happening, when it’s not,” Bier said.
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