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:
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.
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As most articles you post are anti-Conservative I must take it for granted that you are also.
Same. I got temp banned in 2016. Okay I was wrong about 2016. But then again, look at what happened in 2020? In a way, I was right.
Fraud denial?
But at the same time, a lot of people voted for Scranton Joe. They didn't do that for Hillary.
And they probably won't do that for Kamala.
Joe Biden had that appeal in him.
Not enough for fraud to be unnecessary for their coup.
Atlanta.
Detroit.
Milwaukee
Philadelphia.
72 electoral votes.
Stuffing 100,000 extra votes in four cities was enough to make the difference.
Not close enough. Absurd to conceive of Joseph Robinette Biden being the most popular presidential candidate in US history.
Harris has said she’ll grant citizenship to all illegals. Majority of voters want them deported. Newsweak is spreading the Democrat narrative.
The American people voted against Trump. In 2020, we had BLM riots going on. And it was during covid.
Scranton Joe promised he was going to make things "normal" again.
BTW, I'm pretty much in the closet where I live. Can't exactly go out to praise Trump.
It may be different where you live. You may live in a red town in a red state.
Acknowledging and denying fraud simultaneously? That’s doublethink.
Used to be I could tell a Babylon Bee parody from the headline, but these days it’s easier to tell a NYT story. If it has “Trump” and “Baseless”, “Lies”, “False”, “Misleading” or a few others either in the headline or the lede, it’s best just to turn the page. Honest people would find this a degrading way to make a living. If there were any.
I think the amount of gaslight, projection, Astroturf and lies they are spewing is entertaining. It means their desperation has reached psychotic proportions and they know they are losing big league.
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