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By Josh Marshall, talkingpointsmemo.com
June 25th, 2018
2 min
josh marshall
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. Here’s the actual text of the bill. The bill had critics on the right and
left. But it included a huge amount of money and laws for border security and
efforts to prevent illegal immigration. It is demonstrably not an ‘open borders’
bill. All 52 Democratic Senators voted for it as did the two independents who
caucus with the Democrats. This is the clearest, most concrete and dispositve
evidence that this repeated claim by Trump, Sanders et al. is a provable lie.
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 scale
is striking, ranging from 50% the rate of the native born to as low as 20%.
Here are studies from The National Academy of Sciences, National Bureau of
Economic Research, CATO. Here’s an overview of research from the Times. The
evidence is consistent and overwhelming. Immigrants commit crime at
dramatically lower rates than the native born. And large influxes of immigrants
actually appears to bring the crime rate down in areas of high concentration.
Immigration does not drive up crime rates at all. The entire premise of Trump’s
immigration arguments are based on a demonstrable lie.
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