Martin O'Malley At Dem Debate: "Fact-Check Me On That"

[bigtree]

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley at the Democratic debate Saturday night in Iowa said that net immigration from Mexico is zero.

During the conversation about immigration reform, O'Malley made his case for a comprehensive plan that would include a pathway to citizenship and said net immigration from Mexico is zero.

"Fact-check me," O'Malley said.

According to analyses conducted by the Pew Research Center, based on government data, the number of Mexican living in the U.S. illegally has declined over the last five years.

One of the Pew's reports from July said that in 2012, 5.9 million people were living in the U.S. illegally who were originally from Mexico, which was down 1 million from 2007.

In recent years, Pew said illegal immigration has leveled off and as a result, "net migration from Mexico likely reached zero in 2010, and since then more Mexicans have left the U.S. than have arrived."

Based on data from both the U.S. and Mexico, Pew said in a 2012 report that the net migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. had stopped and might have even reversed.

A study released in July from the University of New Hampshire, based on Census data, found that migration from Mexico to the U.S. has declined more than 50 percent in the last five years.


read: www.cbsnews.com/news/omalley-net-immigration-from-mexico-is-zero-democratic-debate/

"The fact of the matter is, and let's say it in our debate — because you'll never hear this from that immigrant-bashing carnival-barker Donald Trump — the truth of the matter is that net-immigration from Mexico last year was zero," O'Malley said.

[NurseJackie]

1. Interesting.

[Koinos]

2. Thank you, bigtree.

O'Malley's facts dissolve Republican nut-job positions.

Trump IS an "immigrant-bashing carnival barker."

O'Malley's policies on immigration -- some of them enacted in Maryland -- make him the immigration candidate of the Democratic party.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Yes

he did a lot for us in Maryland.

[Koinos]

10. Here's another example, posted by FSogol:

Budget Switch For Maryland Hospitals Is Starting To Pay Off

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251817525

[ms liberty]

3. Good on him! He is correct

It's one of those facts that gets totally overlooked by almost everyone. I like O'Malley.

[Jarqui]

4. So Trump wants to build this great wall to keep Mexicans out

and alarm people about the Mexican rapists that are effectively not coming in?


there's a joke in there somewhere.

[Koinos]

11. Thanks, Jarqui.

We don't need no stinkin' facts or logic [sarcasm].

Trump is a knowledge-free zone.

[FSogol]

12. The joke gets worse because most of the people Trump and his party call

"illegal immigrants" are people that came to the country via a work, tourist, or student visas and then overstayed. All the walls in the world won't stop that. The minute some clown or clown-like party suggests building a wall, they are really just admitting they have no clue about immigration issues.

[bigtree]

5. kick

[Mike__M]

7. It's a strong point. He should make "Fact Check Me"

a regular meme, like Sanders's "It's not radical to..."

[bigtree]

8. I thought the 'radical' line was unnecessary

...answering a question about a charge that's best left to others to go on about.

[petronius]

9. That's interesting - I knew migration had leveled off, but would not have guessed

that it was zero/negative.

One 'rec' for the informative post, and I wish I had a second 'rec' for the "carnival-barker" line...

[FSogol]

13. K&R. n/t