TRUMP’S IMMIGRANT CRIME CLAIMS Since 2015, when Donald Trump first ran for president, he’s called immigrants criminals, promising to deport them to protect us. NBC News reported it with these quotes. So did other news organizations.

· “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists…I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we are getting….” June 2015 · “At this very moment, large well-organized migrants are marching towards our southern border. Some people call it an invasion… these are tough people in many cases…” Nov. 2018 · “I think the real number is 15,16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Dec 2023 · “It’s a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land.” July 2024 · “This is country-changing, it’s country threatening, and its country wrecking. They have wrecked our country” April 2024

WHAT’STHE AMERICAN CRIME RATE?

Across every range of measurement, including the FBI, decades of research show that American citizens have a much higher crime rate than its non-citizens, Including undocumented immigrants.

According to the FBI, roughly 100 million Americans have a criminal record—a little less than onethird of the nation’s population. 20 million Americans have a felony conviction. 45 million Americans have a misdemeanor conviction In other words, the nation’s murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and child sexual predators are American citizens. In fact, research shows that undocumented persons are 26% less likely to be charged with murder. There are only two cases of an undocumented person being a mass shooter in the U.S. over the last four decades.

SO WHOSE’S GETTING DEPORTED?

· “Thousands of children are afraid to go to school amid deportation threats.” Feb. 2025 · “Immigration arrests in courthouses are the new deportation tool” when migrants in the country, legally obeying American laws, show up for regular reports. May 2025 · “Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were given special permission to come to the US will be told that they must leave the country immediately. June 2025.

· Gravely ill kids have been threatened with deportation. “An 11-year-old girl,” a US citizen with a rare brain tumor, was deported from Texas with her undocumented parents 4 months ago, along with 4 of her siblings, also born in America. June 2025 Protests over Trump’s immigration raids are spreading nationwide. And Trump’s claim he has saved Los Angeles from “burning down” is baloney. Last week’s LA protests took place in a 5-block area downtown. The city covers 502.7 square miles. It has 8,304,22 people per square mile.

SOTHATLEAVESUSWITHAQUESTION What’s Trump doing about America’s 100 million people with a criminal record?

Jodie Sinclair is an award-winning writer who holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and resides in Bandera.