WaPo Fact Checker: President Trump's Texas-size whoppers

Source: Washington Post

President Trump’s Texas-size whoppers

By Salvador Rizzo
February 4 at 3:00 AM

“58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID! @foxandfriends”

— President Trump, in a tweet, Jan. 27

“Thousands of illegal aliens who have committed sexual crimes against children are right now in Texas prisons. Most came through our Southern Border. We can end this easily - We need a Steel Barrier or Wall. Walls Work! John Jones, Texas Department of Public Safety. @FoxNews”

— Trump, in a tweet, Jan. 13

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Everything is bigger in Texas. But not this big.

Trump portrays the Lone Star State as a crime hub for undocumented immigrants, with rampant cases of voter fraud and thousands of child predators behind bars. Yet his tweets are laden with misleading and inaccurate statistics. The real Texas numbers are far less scary. Let’s dig in.

The Facts

Trump often claims that immigration leads to more crime, even though most studies show that immigrants commit crime at lower rates than the native-born, regardless of whether they entered the United States legally or illegally. The Trump administration has been undeterred by such research and routinely comes up with new, misleading statistics to make the case for a border wall between the United States and Mexico.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/04/president-trumps-texas-sized-whoppers/