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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC's Ali Velshi Drops A Fact Check Bomb On Trump's MS-13 Invasion Lie
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/03/msnbcs-ali-velshi-drops-a-fact-check-bomb-on-trumps-ms-13-invasion-lie.html"SNIP..........
Velshi ran through the real MS-13 immigration numbers and said, Let me just repeat those numbers. 180 ms-13 gang members caught at the border out of 187,000 people who are detained at the border. This isnt the number of people who cross at the border, this number with this as the denominator. That means ms-13 members after the 300% increase, make up less than 1% of the people detained at the border. This is not an invasion.
Trumps MS-13 invasion is a lie
Trump has been using the claim that MS-13 is invading America as a pretext for his bigoted immigration policy. The fact is that MS-13 is not invading America, and that gang members and criminals make up a tiny number of immigrants apprehended on the border. Trump is using this lie to scare the Republican base into getting out to vote in the midterms. It is not Barack Obama who is coming to get scared white Republicans anymore. Its MS-13. The playbook is the same, only the boogeyman has changed.
The White House is also falsely claiming that anyone who doesnt want babies ripped away from their parents and locked in cages is pro-MS-13. The official White House Twitter account used this line of attack on potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Kamala Harris (CA). MS-13 is a very violent gang, but they are falsely used as political cover for a racist immigration policy.
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applegrove
(118,778 posts)election rat f***ers. Probably miniscule numbers too. Most people are good people including immigrants.
calimary
(81,466 posts)Better yet, seems safe to assume ANYTHING that comes out of donalds Mouth is a lie. Hes had the fork in his tongue cosmetically covered, though.
unc70
(6,119 posts)Squinch
(51,004 posts)lies it is over and over again until people realize how ridiculous this shit is.
Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)democrats want open borders when in May of 2015 the deportation numbers were thousands higher than in 2018 in May were much much lower, and remember President Obama was called the Deporter in Chief by many people on both sides of the border. Everything trump has claimed is BS, and he knows its BS, but he has some believing his propaganda . That's why he attacks the DOJ, it deals in the truth, and that's his worse enemy.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)To keep paranoia at the proper level....
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Response to applegrove (Original post)
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Maggiemayhem
(811 posts)and put a decimal in front of 1%.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)It is less than one-tenth of 1%. The number was 0.096%. That rounds to 0.1%.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)and Virginia and Maryland are areas were they are relatively active.
By the way, MS13 is an American gang. It formed in Los Angeles, and members were later deported back to El Salvador.