Two Big Lies In Trump’s Immigration Speech.

In his most anticipated immigration policy speech since he delivered his campaign speech last June, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump painted a relentlessly bleak view of undocumented immigrants, claiming they are responsible for tens of thousands of homicides and are leeches on the U.S. economy.

During his speech, which at one time was thought to represent a “pivot” to a softer approach, called for the mass deportation of the country’s undocumented population, which would also likely force their U.S. citizen children to leave the country with them. Trump also spent considerable time depicting undocumented immigrants as violent criminals.

According to Trump’s statistics, undocumented immigrants committed 25,000 homicides and cost the country $113 billion. The problem is that those statistics are false and misleading. Here are the facts:...
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