“If it’s a lie then we struggle on that lie…however we gotta struggle,” —Slim Charles, The Wire.
It’s all been a lie.
The scary story of immigrants killing and raping People. The fear-mongering that immigrants are taking American jobs. The horror tales of an open border and hordes of individuals coming throughout in the midst of the night time.
All of it has been a lie. And but, none of it has stopped this administration from waging a full-out conflict on Latinos and other people of coloration.
At the moment, the military-obsessed president has turned peaceable protests right into a standoff between those that don’t imagine folks needs to be arrested at commencement ceremonies and court docket hearings in opposition to the American troopers. Because it stands, some 2,000 Nationwide Guardsmen and 700 Marines have been despatched to California to quell principally non-violent demonstrations in opposition to Trump’s authoritarian push to “Make America white once more.”
And all of it’s primarily based on lies. Lies that started below Trump’s first presidency, when he claimed that unlawful immigration was so dangerous that he wished to construct a wall and Mexico was going to pay for it. Regardless of that whole marketing campaign falling flat on its face, the alarmism and worry techniques of the scary unlawful stealing your job, girl, and Toyota Camry persevered.
A lot so that when Trump received again in workplace, he started a conflict on immigrants utilizing his henchmen at ICE to spherical up folks of coloration, whether or not they’d truly dedicated a criminal offense or not, and have them incarcerated and deported.
And all of this was constructed on lies.
However right here’s the reality:
Unlawful immigrants make up solely 3.5% of the whole U.S. inhabitants, which is round 11 million folks. Clearly that quantity is unimaginable to know precisely, “…the estimate basically comes from taking the foreign-born inhabitants from census documents, then subtracting the variety of authorized immigrants.”
Round 8.1 million of those undocumented immigrants are working or on the lookout for work, and regardless of utilizing pretend social safety playing cards to safe employment, these employees who aren’t paid in money pay taxes on the cash they earn.
“In 2010, they contributed an estimated $10.6 billion in state and native taxes, and $13 billion in Social Safety,” The Week stories. “Opposite to widespread notion, unlawful immigrants don’t qualify for public advantages like welfare, meals stamps, and Medicaid, as these packages require proof of authorized immigration standing.”
Because of this they pay right into a system and obtain nothing in return.
Two-thirds of undocumented immigrants have been within the U.S. for 10 or extra years, and a few 60% of that inhabitants lives in six states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois.
And since Trump has waged conflict on immigration, the federal authorities spends extra money attempting to spherical up and deport these taxpayers than they do on the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Company and the U.S. Marshals Service mixed.
All of that is primarily based on the parable that immigrants, particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at an alarming charge. Nevertheless, research have discovered that whereas immigration has elevated through the years, crime charges have decreased.
“The American Immigration Council in contrast crime information to demographic information from 1980 to 2022, the newest information out there. The information confirmed that because the immigrant share of the inhabitants grew, the crime charge declined,” a research executed by the American Immigration Council discovered.
“In 1980, immigrants made up 6.2% of the U.S. inhabitants, and the whole crime charge was 5,900 crimes per 100,000 folks. By 2022, the share of immigrants had greater than doubled, to 13.9%, whereas the whole crime charge had dropped by 60.4%, to 2,335 crimes per 100,000 folks. Particularly, the violent crime charge fell by 34.5% and the property crime charge fell by 63.3%,” it reads.
However that is private, it all the time has been. Trump and his administration has labeled Venezuelans “rapists,” “savages,” “monsters” and “the worst of the worst.” This fear-mongering led to the arrest of some 238 Venezuelans who had been despatched to a maximum-security jail in El Salvador. An investigation by the Texas Tribune and ProPublica discovered that not solely had lots of these deported not been convicted and even accused of crimes, however the Trump administration knew this and deported them anyway.
As a result of this was by no means concerning the fact. This was all the time about a bit man with freakishly small fingers and a large ego who was by no means taken severely, in enterprise or in politics. This has all the time been concerning the joke of a president wanting desperately to be seen as a person. It’s why he’s been hellbent on releasing the navy. He was going to deploy a militaristic present of pressure as a result of that’s what bullies do. Whether or not it was his nonsensical, wildly-expensive showcase of military automobiles throughout his birthday, or the deployment of troops on peaceable protesters, the president is so removed from being an emperor that somebody would possibly need to inform him.
This was by no means about immigration; this has all the time been a few cartoonish heel needing an opponent, and sadly for America, the boy impersonating a president has set his sights on anyone within the immigrant group.
And though it’s all primarily based on lies, he’s nonetheless going to trip on that.
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