The Big Lie About Immigrants You Heard at the RNC This Week
HuffPost
Immigrants are not the drug-smuggling, ruthless killers that the Trump GOP describes.
It’s election season, so Republicans are lying about immigrants again.
Over and over at this week’s Republican National Convention, politicians who know better — or who ought to — falsely said or implied that undocumented migrants and asylum seekers pose an unthinkable criminal threat to innocent, native-born Americans.
The reality is the opposite: According to available data, American citizens who were born here are vastly more homicidal than immigrants, including undocumented immigrants. And the vast majority of drugs recovered at the southern border arrive here in the vehicles of American citizens.
But you wouldn’t know that, listening to Republicans.
Donald Trump, accepting the Republican nomination Thursday, spoke ominously of an “invasion” of immigrants that had spread “misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land.” America, he said, has become a “dumping ground” for the world’s violent criminals. He promised the “largest deportation operation” in American history, pledging to Republicans: “I will not let these killers and criminals into our country.”