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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:48 PM Jun 2018

The lies never stop

"'Sarah Sanders just again complained that Democrats support “open borders and rampant crime” that she claims comes with “open borders.” These are straight up lies, so blatant and frequently repeated that I thought it was important to provide links here which can allow anyone who is willing to state and repeat the actual facts again and again and again."

"First, in 2013 the Senate passed the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, the most recent iteration of so-called ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’ The bill was a mix of things both parties wanted, substantial funding for border security along with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the country, etc."

"Second, “rampant crime.” The through line connecting all of President Trump’s rants about immigration policy is that immigration is a security issue, that there is a clear connection between the scale of immigration and crime. This is false. All credible studies, approaching the question from a variety of angles, find that immigrants – legal and not – commit crime at a dramatically lower rate than native born Americans."

"The entire premise of Trump’s immigration arguments are based on a demonstrable lie."

Not that it matters to the deplorables.

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The lies never stop (Original Post) Va Lefty Jun 2018 OP
You could see the.. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #1

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
1. You could see the..
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 08:51 PM
Jun 2018

THEY WANT OPEN BORDERS thing coming a mile away. Learn the lesson. Talking and bitching and crying only goes so far. We need to find a happy medium to crying...and punching someone in the face. If we continue to fester and talk on this without some resolve of some kind...they will shape this message. It's already taking form.

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