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Trump’s Claims That Blame Migrants: False or Misleading
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 18, 2024, 12:25 p.m. ET | Linda Qiu

Posted on 10/18/2024 11:06:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Trump campaign has consistently pointed to unauthorized immigration as the cause of a series of problems it says plagues the country. That is rarely actually the case.

To former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, the root cause of many of the issues in the United States is simple.

Be it gun violence, high housing costs, long wait times at emergency rooms or an impending depletion of disaster relief funding, Mr. Trump and Senator JD Vance have offered the same diagnosis: All are because of unauthorized immigration.

“The mass migration invasion has crushed wages, crashed school systems — your systems are a disaster — wrecked the standard of living and brought crime, drugs, misery and death,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in California over the weekend.

By casting migrants as agents of ruin and destruction, the Republican nominees are peddling a raft of specious claims that underline the extent to which nativist sentiment has become central to their campaign. But seldom is unauthorized immigration the actual cause of the problems they say plague the country.

Here’s a fact check.

The Trump campaign has misleadingly blamed illegal immigration for:

  1. Hospital wait times
  2. Illegal guns
  3. Serious crime
  4. Long-term funding shortfalls for Social Security and disaster relief, and high housing prices

Hospital wait times

What was said: "You cannot get into a hospital, by the way."

This is misleading. Emergency room wait times have lengthened under the Biden administration. But that largely follows a yearslong trend with no evidence that immigrants are driving the increase. Moreover, emergency rooms prioritize patients for treatment based on severity of condition, not immigration status.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: aliens; bidenalieninvasion; fakenews; gaslighting; gaslightmedia; illegals; lindaqiu; lyinlinda; lyinlindaqiu; newgaslighttimes; newyorkslimes; queuethefabulist; tds; tdsbs; thegaslightmedia; thenewgaslighttimes; trump; trumptruth
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The Old Gray Whore spewing more lies, gaslight, Astroturf and projection per square inch than the law allows.
1 posted on 10/18/2024 11:06:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t believe your lying eyes.


2 posted on 10/18/2024 11:08:19 AM PDT by marron
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So crimes that are committed by illegal aliens aren’t really committed by illegal aliens?

How can that be?


3 posted on 10/18/2024 11:09:42 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Emergency room wait times have lengthened under the Biden administration. But that largely follows a yearslong trend with no evidence that immigrants are driving the increase.

Immigration is a generational problem. Yes, it's a problem that is a yearslong trend... and the numbers of illegal immigrants has only increased over decades.

Moreover, emergency rooms prioritize patients for treatment based on severity of condition, not immigration status.

Of course, they purposely miss the point. They don't have to prioritize immigration status, they just have to treat them and take up resources doing so.

4 posted on 10/18/2024 11:10:47 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Any more when I see the NYT byline, I don’t even bother reading it since its nothing a rag to host Democrat talking points. Also, do they really think people are going to pay to read what they say? They’re delusional.


5 posted on 10/18/2024 11:11:39 AM PDT by econjack
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Right, illegals don’t ever kill anyone, eat pets and public park geese, or belong to foreign gangs and take over apartment complexes. Never.


6 posted on 10/18/2024 11:15:27 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It mental illness compounded by panic.


7 posted on 10/18/2024 11:16:22 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Written by a migrant working for the New Yawk Slime. Oh, that’s good. Trump should sue her ass.


8 posted on 10/18/2024 11:17:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I've come to the conclusion that the world is made up of millions of Three Stooges comedians.)
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Hmm. Qiu’s LinkedIn page says that she only got out of the University of Chicago ten years ago, and the only job experience listed is at the Slimes, starting in 2017. (She also works for Politi“fact”, JFTR.) Looks like a reject from Mao’s Red Guards, to me . . .


9 posted on 10/18/2024 11:18:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

😂😂😂😂. WOW! The nyt is having a field day leading up to its page 3 #10 font one column report announcing Trump’s win.


10 posted on 10/18/2024 11:18:20 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s not that what he says is false. Rather, it’s exaggeration. Welcome to a campaign season.

And you can nail every single candidate in every single race with this same accusation. It’s why I don’t listen to what politicians say, but watch what they do.

That is why I’m a HUGE Trump fan. And before the 2016 election I was temp banned twice here at FR because of all my negativity toward Trump, because all I had to go by was what he said.

If you get my drift...


11 posted on 10/18/2024 11:27:34 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I like how the article says “this is rarely the case”. So sometimes it IS the case that it is the illegal immigrants fault. Thanks for the fact check.


12 posted on 10/18/2024 11:31:19 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NY Times has been peddle-to-the-metal spin for the last two weeks. I mean, what is this, the 255th article about Trump Doom?!?

The Left is like the crazy ex who can’t accept a breakup and thinks that by hounding, crying, screaming and yelling at you, somehow you’ll realize that you actually DO love them, but with every passing day you just want to get farther away from them!


13 posted on 10/18/2024 11:35:19 AM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

ILLEGAL !!!!!


14 posted on 10/18/2024 11:36:58 AM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-in)
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To: Olog-hai

If one life is saved by mass deportation, then it’s worth it. This is the same standard used by gun grabbers.


15 posted on 10/18/2024 12:26:20 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

O gosh, E Pluribus, no need to buy the NYTimes, you will provide it for us.


16 posted on 10/18/2024 12:29:14 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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O gosh, E Pluribus, no need to buy the NYTimes, you will provide it for us.

If you aren't interested in it, don't click on it. There are plenty of people who are, but since you're the center of the universe they don't count.

17 posted on 10/18/2024 12:30:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What about drunk driving manslaughter, human-trafficking, mass raping of minors, drugs, home invasions and burglaries? Sorry princess. YOU are FOS. Everything they say is true.


18 posted on 10/18/2024 12:53:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I've come to the conclusion that the world is made up of millions of Three Stooges comedians.)
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To: Olog-hai
She was much cuter in the Chinese propaganda poster:

NYT Chinese

Same job, different countries and media.

19 posted on 10/18/2024 1:11:06 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Back in my day Tick Tock came from the clock - and we LIKED it that way!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How about factual?


20 posted on 10/18/2024 2:54:07 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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