No, Immigrants Don't Commit More Crimes
Research and data undermine the skein of lies Trump keeps peddling.
Don’t believe the hype.
Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images North AmericaA new explainer by the Migration Policy Institute seeks to apply facts to the lively discussion of immigration and crime. A spokesperson for MPI said the nonpartisan research organization, known for a sober tone, hoped to clear up “confusion.”
That’s one way to characterize Donald Trump’s nine-year campaign of lies. Trump is busy making his campaign’s closing argument to American voters. It’s a familiar pitch featuring a starring role for immigrants. Vice President Kamala Harris, in Trump’s telling, is opening the border to “millions” of Brown people “from jails, from prisons” so they can kill you and your family and then, once everyone is dead, steal your job and vote for Democrats. Owing to all the migrant killers, a once great nation is now “occupied America,” Trump said.