Posted on 05/10/2018 12:34:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
From the beginning of his campaign for president, Donald Trump portrayed illegal immigration as a forest fire that threatens to spread rapidly and engulf us all. Mexicans, he charged, are “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” He thought Americans should be afraid.
The president and his attorney general ignore the real dangers posed by most foreigners here illegally: They will fill jobs that Americans don’t want, learn English, pay taxes and stay out of trouble. Chilling, huh?
The president relishes lurid tales of the criminal gang MS-13. Last year, he said: “They stomp on their victims. They beat them with clubs. They slash them with machetes, and they stab them with knives.”
No one disputes that MS-13 is a violent gang, but it’s just one of many that plague American cities. All that distinguishes this one is that many of its members came from Central America, some without documents - allowing Trump to blame its villainy on illegal immigration.
What this all shows is that Trump and Sessions are peddling myths. Central American refugees are not about to mount a mass assault on the border. And on the whole, far from posing a danger to public safety, the presence of foreigners here illegally enhances public safety. MS-13 is as representative of them as John Wayne Gacy is of Illinoisans.
This alleged menace is much like the monsters that small children fear. It’s scary until you turn on the light and look under the bed.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Delusional.
How could fraudulently documented foreigners make US safer?
perhaps the Chicago Trib should hire an illegal for a quarter of his salary to replace Chapman.
What part of “ILLEGAL” doesn’t the media understand?
Oh, Fer Pete’s Sake!
These people are DELUSIONAL!
Firearms make me safer and they don’t depress wages, drive drunk, rape women, rob homes and businesses, steal identities or smuggle drugs.
So, intruders make your home safer, eh?
Oh contraire. Give the commies enough go time and they’ll connect all of those to guns.
If this clown thinks the illegals learn English, he should come to L A and spin around on the radio dial.
Democrats do all of that every day.
A quick google...The Enemy Media IS reporting on this. I hope these cretins are on PDJT’s Hit List in the very near future!
MS-13 gang members accused of killing man, burning car with his body in trunk at Va. park
http://wjla.com/news/crime/ms-13-gang-accused-of-killing-man-in-va
Three MS-13 gang members in Massachusetts convicted in murder trial
‘Heinous and violent’: MS-13’s appeal to girls grows as gang becomes ‘Americanized’
They can connect anything they want.
Build the wall! Deport illegals!
Unfortunately Democrats aren’t here illegally.
The vast majority anyway.
In other news, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.
Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people.
It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop and it’s got to stop fast.
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