By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-18 18:11:35 | Updated at 2024-10-18 20:26:36
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Trump’s Claims That Blame Migrants: False or Misleading
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 18, 2024, 12:25 p.m. ET | Linda Qiu
Posted on 10/18/2024 11:06:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump campaign has consistently pointed to unauthorized immigration as the cause of a series of problems it says plagues the country. That is rarely actually the case.
To former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, the root cause of many of the issues in the United States is simple.
Be it gun violence, high housing costs, long wait times at emergency rooms or an impending depletion of disaster relief funding, Mr. Trump and Senator JD Vance have offered the same diagnosis: All are because of unauthorized immigration.
“The mass migration invasion has crushed wages, crashed school systems — your systems are a disaster — wrecked the standard of living and brought crime, drugs, misery and death,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in California over the weekend.
By casting migrants as agents of ruin and destruction, the Republican nominees are peddling a raft of specious claims that underline the extent to which nativist sentiment has become central to their campaign. But seldom is unauthorized immigration the actual cause of the problems they say plague the country.
Here’s a fact check.
The Trump campaign has misleadingly blamed illegal immigration for:
- Hospital wait times
- Illegal guns
- Serious crime
- Long-term funding shortfalls for Social Security and disaster relief, and high housing prices
Hospital wait times
What was said: "You cannot get into a hospital, by the way."
This is misleading. Emergency room wait times have lengthened under the Biden administration. But that largely follows a yearslong trend with no evidence that immigrants are driving the increase. Moreover, emergency rooms prioritize patients for treatment based on severity of condition, not immigration status.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: fakenews; lindaqiu; newyorkslimes; tds
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Don’t believe your lying eyes.
2 posted on 10/18/2024 11:08:19 AM PDT by marron
To: E. Pluribus Unum
So crimes that are committed by illegal aliens aren’t really committed by illegal aliens?
How can that be?
3 posted on 10/18/2024 11:09:42 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Emergency room wait times have lengthened under the Biden administration. But that largely follows a yearslong trend with no evidence that immigrants are driving the increase.
Immigration is a generational problem. Yes, it's a problem that is a yearslong trend... and the numbers of illegal immigrants has only increased over decades.
Moreover, emergency rooms prioritize patients for treatment based on severity of condition, not immigration status.
Of course, they purposely miss the point. They don't have to prioritize immigration status, they just have to treat them and take up resources doing so.
4 posted on 10/18/2024 11:10:47 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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