Fact checking Trump- updated

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Donald Trump is under siege for comments he made opening his bid for the GOP Presidential nomination. It is appropriate that someone bother to fact check his assertions instead of just jumping on the PC bandwagon and slamming Trump as pretty much everyone- Republicans included– has done. So let’s see what Trump really said:

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.

Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people.

Everyone with half a brain knows Trump was talking about illegal immigration. The reporters at Reuters do not have half a brain.

Ever since Donald Trump made his anti-immigrant tirade during his 2016 presidential bid announcement, he’s lost partnerships with many large companies including Univision, NBC Universal and Macy’s.

It was not an “anti-immigrant” tirade. It was an anti-illegal alien invasion tirade.

Let’s dissect Trump’s words.

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.

How many Mexican nuclear engineers have illegally entered the country?

None.

How many highly educated Mexican people have violated the US borders to gain entry?

None.

How many illegal alien doctors have violated the borders to gain access to the US?

None.

They’re bringing drugs.

Illegal drugs flow over and under US border

“If the American public had any idea how wide open that border is out there, they’d have a heart attack,” one frustrated U.S. official said.

Illegal Alien Sentenced for Drug Trafficking Violations in Harrison County

Convicted Drug Trafficking Illegal Alien Caught Buying Ammo for Smuggling Into Mexico

They’re bringing crime.

“Not all illegal aliens are crossing into the United States to find work. Law enforcement officials indicate that there are individuals coming across the border who are forced to leave their home countries because of criminal activities. These dangerous criminals are fleeing the law in other countries and seeking refuge in the United States.”

Majority Staff Report of the House Committee on Homeland Security

 

Judicial Watch: New Documents Show Homeland Security Released 165,900 Convicted Criminal Aliens throughout U.S. as of April 26, 2014

 

Gangs

Nationally, Hispanics are thought to comprise 49 percent of total gang membership. A majority of these gang members are illegal immigrants. Notes Duplin County Sheriff Blake Wallace (D), “There is an increasing gang activity problem, particularly with MS-13 and studies have shown that the majority of those gang members are illegal aliens.”9 Among these studies is a report published by the Governor’s Crime Commission which posits that 66 percent of Hispanic/Latino gang members are illegal aliens.10 In the case of MS-13, one of the most violent and powerful gangs in North Carolina, federal authorities estimate that “approximately 90 percent of U.S. MS-13 members are foreign-born illegal aliens and depend upon the Texas-Mexico border smuggling corridor to support their criminal operations.”11 As Forsyth County District Attorney Tom Keith (R) puts it, “You cannot say ‘drugs’ without saying ‘gangs’ without saying ‘illegal aliens.’”12

Immigration for America:

On average, more than 500,000 illegal immigrants were arrested every year during the early twenty-first century, either while they were in the United States or while they tried to cross the border. In 2007 alone, Border Patrol agents arrested more than 850,000 people attempting to enter the country illegally. Because the federal government estimates that only 10-20 percent of all illegal immigrants are apprehended, as many as 4 million undocumented immigrants may enter the country undetected every year. Federal officials have also estimated that nearly 80-90 percent of illegal drugs entering the United States come from Mexico. Most of these drugs are smuggled in by illegal immigrants.

They’re bringing disease

Disease Rampant Among Illegal Immigrants Housed in U.S. Facilities

According to a report released by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general on October 6, the presence of communicable diseases at detention facilities housing illegal immigrants — both unaccompanied children and families — remains a problem.

The findings, detailed in a memo written by DHS Inspector General John Roth to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, were released by Roth’s office on October 6. They summarized the findings of the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) investigators during five unannounced visits to three detention facilities in Texas and New Mexico between August 21 and September 26.

They’re rapists.

Dozen illegal immigrants in Texas gang rape 13-year-old girl

Illegal Alien Charged With Aggravated Rape Of 10-Year-Old Girl

Illegal Alien Rapes Baltimore Girl 1 Year after City Becomes Sanctuary

Three illegal aliens charged with Elba rape

Illegal aliens linked to gang-rape wave

So in summary, illegals flooding this country are primarily unskilled, carry diseases, bring crime into this country, and are responsible for many rapes- just as Trump asserted.

We rate Trump’s assertions as true.*

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Now- I don’t like Donald Trump and I don’t for a second believe he has a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming President, but he’s right about this. Ted Cruz is right when he says that Washington doesn’t want to have a discussion about illegal immigration. Not only doesn’t Washington want to have a discussion about illegal immigration, neither do liberals across the nation. They’re adamantly opposed to a legitimate discussion about illegal immigration- so much so that they need to dishonestly edit Trump’s words to make him sound as bad a possible. Liberals right now are out of control. They are mad. We’ve seen George Takei’s insane racist rant, we’ve seen liberals threaten the life of a 12 year black youth because he dared criticize Obama. They go collectively unhinged with their fascism over the Confederate flag and they’ll crowd shame (or worse) anyone who doesn’t goose step with them. It’s like a scene out of the God-awful movie The Purge, the difference being that in the movie it was just one night a year people were allowed to kill. Right now there seems no end to the bloodlust of the left. Ann Coulter can’t hold a book signing without being attacked by illegals.

We haven’t even gotten to murder yet.

We will.

Rich Lowery says Donald Trump has a point. It’s more than that. About this, Trump is right.

 

*- “We” means me and the not the other authors here or the owner of the blog.

UPDATE

Mexican Elites Secretly Agree With Donald Trump

But with outrage should come introspection. It’s easy for Mexicans to make Trump a target. But he simply said out loud what many Mexicans who stay behind have long believed about those who fled to the north—that they’re the undesirables who were out of options, didn’t make it, and couldn’t hack it.

Which raises the question: Are Mexican elites upset at Trump for insulting their countrymen, or for stealing their lines?

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All of what Trump said was fact and, what’s more, he gleaned the data from US government statistics and articles from Huffington and Univision. Oh, he could have been more tactful, but why? How many times does one have to state the same truths over and over before those in denial begin to accept the facts?

Hahaha little botch had to block comments on Google plus. Man what about the immigrants that fought in Iraq to get their green cards expedited? You just speak negatives and nothing positive… It’s ok your government loves cheap labor and when war comes again the immigrants will take up arms in the name of the USA, face it your government isn’t doing nothing about immigration because they love us…. I mean I know for sure you won’t go war, something a liberal would do…..

how about The Donald’s latest tweet “jeb Bush has to like illegals because of his wife”
Trumps is sometimes polling as high as second place. Wouldn’t that be a hoot if the Dems did a replay of Rush’s Operation Chaos and started voting for Trump in the primaries? I know it is too much to hope for but how about a Trump-Palin ticket?

@Beaner: To all but the most stupid, his remarks were quite clear; illegal immigrants that cross over, cause crime and bring drugs. Those that don’t do this were not mentioned, but that filter includes quite a few.

Beaner@#3
What the hell are you talking about?
It is quite obivious where ever you received your education they did not teach you to have a complete thought, and manage to put that thought in a understandable sentence….

@Bill#4 I am glad you understood what Beaner was ranting on about…I don’t speak rant.

Not really a Trump fan either, but in addition to this little bit of truth, there are a few other things about Trump I do like. Nobody owns him, he doesn’t owe anybody for his campaign. Because of that, he’s fearless. He speaks his mind, and he knows better than to lie. He also knows how to hire the right people for any given job, he sure hasn’t had all the business success he has enjoyed by hiring flunkeys. And he’s being attacked ruthlessly from both sides of the political aisle, which indicates they few him.

I am behind Trump in the Truth he speaks. Finally someone saying what a majority of Americans who don’t have their voices heard (because of collective sheeple) are also saying and thinking.

Mark Levin quoted Milton Freedman today. Immigrants legally coming to the US to America to work is one thing…
WE KNOW most illegals …they are NOT coming here from the Southern border of US/Mexico to “just work” why work when a sanctuary city will supply illegals with up to $24,000 per year of taxpayer money??

What these corrupt politicians are doing for power, money and “votes” is being brought to light…they are dying they should cease to exist…which is precisely WHY they continue to import illegals and ply them with our hard earned tax dollars…All for VOTES…

And if a young woman gets MURDERED and a family is destroyed…oh well…

Liberalism and Democrats are a sick sick sick bunch of puke…

@Scott in Oklahoma: Scott, Bill, Dr J and other “not really Trump fans”—- after saying that you reel off all the things you like about him.

Question You sure sound .like Trump fans. What’s holding you back?

Well Rich, I for one am not afraid to answer questions…I haven’t decided who I am going to support yet. I need to learn more about some of the candidates, others I have already blown off. In the case of Trump, I want to hear what he has to say about guns and some other domestic issues.

@rich wheeler:

Tell me, Rich, how many Americans have to be slaughtered in the streets before California is no longer a sanctuary state?

@retire05: Tragic what happened in S.F. Illegal immigrants that commit ‘serious’ crimes are turned over to proper authorities for deportation.
Why do you think that under Obama so many more undocumented immigrants have been deported than under Bush?–they call BHO the deportation Prez.

@rich wheeler:

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Tragic what happened in S.F. Illegal immigrants that commit ‘serious’ crimes are turned over to proper authorities for deportation.

Really? Is that why the SFPD admitted that although the murderer had committed crimes, they never turned him over to ICE?

It came as immigration officials revealed that Sanchez should have been sent to them when he was arrested four months ago, but was let go in accordance with San Francisco’s ‘sanctuary city’ policy

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3149706/Family-Californian-woman-shot-dead-random-illegal-Mexican-immigrant-deported-FIVE-TIMES-condemn-officials-let-stay.html#ixzz3f9ugLV00

Because of California’s refusal to work with ICE in sending these illegals back to where they came from, a young woman is dead, and you, and every illegal supporter have blood on your hands.

Why do you think that under Obama so many more undocumented immigrants have been deported than under Bush?–they call BHO the deportation Prez.

That’s a bullshit claim put out by the White House. The Border Patrol, and even ICE officials deny that claim. Jeh Johnson admitted that those who are turned back at the border, even before they set one foot on American soil, are now counted as “deported” although no other administration has ever done that.

But hey, as long as you can feel good about the man you helped get elected, I guess that is all that counts to you.

@Scott in Oklahoma: Thanks Scott
Sounds like Faith7 is all in
Trump currently polls 3rd in Iowa and 2nd in N.H.

@retire05: Obama admin deported over 2 million undocumented in first 5 years–more than Bush admin deported in 8.
IMO Nothing to be proud of–just a fact. But you go ahead and believe what you want. You always do.

Thoughts on your Gov. Perry’s call to bring more African American voters into the Repub fold? Admitting the Party’s mistakes of the 60’s.
Are you ready to board the Trump bandwagon?

@rich wheeler:

in Oklahoma: Scott, Bill, Dr J and other “not really Trump fans”—- after saying that you reel off all the things you like about him.

All I’ve said is that what he said is true… which, by the way, is much more than you can say about Hillary…. and asked anyone to show what is false about his statements. Want to give it a swing?

Obama admin deported over 2 million undocumented in first 5 years–more than Bush admin deported in 8.

Obama counts illegal immigrants turned back at the border… Bush did not. All Obama does is lie, which is why you cannot stomach the truth coming from someone like Trump.

Why do liberals support allowing illegal immigrants with criminal records to remain free until they kill someone?

@Bill: As you know I am not a supporter of HRC and will not vote for her.
My point is that Trump is working to insure her election. Are you onboard?.
Illegal immigrants who commit a felony are being deported and I support that..
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@rich wheeler: No, I think, as you do, I shall simply declare you ARE an ardent supporter of Hillary, her lies and her corruption.

get more popcorn !! Trump will not stop. ohhh this is tooooo good

trump will surge in the polls.

Trump is polling at 12% twice Scottie Walker (the man the dems dear the most according to Dr J)
If Trump comes anywhere close to grabbing the keys to the GOP clown car they might not even hold an election or bother to count the votes.

@rich wheeler:

Illegal immigrants who commit a felony are being deported and I support that..

there should be no further leniency toward those in the U.S. without permission.

The report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) – a group that advocates for lower levels of legal immigration – shows that 36,007 immigrants in the U.S. illegally who were convicted of crimes were freed from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, including those who had multiple convictions. Those numbers include 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 9,187 dangerous drug convictions, 16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions and more.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-u-s-released-thousands-of-immigrant-felons-last-year/

Rich, do you live in a freaking bubble?

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@Bill: What?
O5 Better we were in your beloved Texas where they execute innocent people and call it collateral damage.

@retire05: Did you want to comment on my Perry query. Are you in agreement with his call to reach out to African Americans and admit that mistakes were made in the 60’s. Are you in agreement with his denunciation f Trump.
Here is a man that is coming out of a bubble. I commend him once again. Maybe he’ll do a little better tis go round.

@rich wheeler:

O5 Better we were in your beloved Texas where they execute innocent people and call it collateral damage.

Oh, and Texas is the only state that ever executed someone later proved to be innocent? And who heads up the Innocence Project? Barry Scheck. Yeah, that Barry Scheck. The same one that helped get O.J. Simpson acquitted of murder charges. You liberals know no bounds when it comes to hypocrisy.

Are you in agreement with his denunciation f Trump.

Nope, because although Trump will never be an orator, he’s right about illegal immigration, and Rick Perry knows it.

Any city that becomes a sanctuary city should be denied any and all federal funding of any kind. Stop the flow of money and watch how much liberals care about illegals then.

@retire05: OJ had all the lawyers money can buy. He’s where he belongs for life.
You haven’t responded to my question about Perry’s shout out to African American voters and his admission of Repub. Party mistakes in the 60’s.Do you agree with Perry on this?

@rich wheeler:

I think Republicans should reach out to everyone, no matter the color of their skin, as long as they have the same values that conservatives have. So why would that be so important to you what I think of what Perry said when it only makes common sense? Are you shocked that Perry is not the racist the left wing media tried to portray him as being?

There are lots of conservative blacks. They are just persona non gratis to you progressives.

Do you think what George Takei said about Justice Thomas was racist? Should he be shunned for his comments? How about the racist things said about whites and Jews by Al Sharpton? Do you agree with his multiple invites to the White House? Should those blacks that kill whites in violent attacks called the “knock out game” be charged with hate crimes?

@rich wheeler:

Scott, Bill, Dr J and other “not really Trump fans”—- after saying that you reel off all the things you like about him.

Rich

Could you please quote all those “things I like about him”?

Thanks

@retire05: Perry said “For too long Repubs. have been content to lose the Black vote. But when we gave up trying to win the Black vote we lost our moral legitimacy as the Party of Lincoln the party of opportunity for all.” Well said
I don’t like Sharpton–never have
Takai was man enough to apologize for his comment—listen up Donald
Blacks killing whites in racially motivated attacks–damn right they should be charged as necessary.

@drjohn: I’ll re phrase. You were in agreement (liked) with his incendiary musings.

@rich wheeler:

Here is a question for you, Rich? Do the Democrats have to “win you” over to their side? Or are you a Democrat because you support their socialist ideology?

If blacks had not been fed a bill of goods, and a bunch of lies, they would know that the Republicans, not the Democrats, were on their side. Instead, they have been fed a bunch of bull by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and other Democrats who convinced them that the Democrats, not the Republicans, fight for them while those same race pimps lined their own pockets.

And what has Democrat pandering wrought on the blacks of America? Broken families, absentee fathers, generational welfare, ghettos with rotten school systems, drug infested neighborhoods and killing fields like Chicago where 10 people were shot to death just last week end. Not to mention the millions of black babies that wound up in the abortionist’s trash can. Margaret Sanger could have never imagined how successful her program would become.

You Democrats have managed to do to black America what even the most racist slave owner couldn’t do. You must be so proud to be a Democrat.

@rich wheeler:

Illegal immigrants who commit a felony are being deported and I support that…

Noble indeed. But it doesn’t matter as they come right back across the border.

The man accused of firing the deadly shot — 45-year-old Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez — is an undocumented immigrant, a repeat felon who has been deported five times to Mexico, according to immigration officials.

– CNN

It’d be best to fix the problem, not a symptom. It might even save a life. It may sound cheesy but it is true.

@retire05: Republicans are on the side of Blacks you say.
I’ll keep my eye on Gov. Perry.

@rich wheeler:

Better we were in your beloved Texas where they execute innocent people and call it collateral damage

And who was this “innocent” person? Why do you deflect and run away from your support of Hillary, her lies and her corruption? Why do you support the release of illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes so they can kill innocent US citizens? You must share the White House’s lame excuse of blaming Republicans for illegal immigrants, their unabated flow into the United States and their release from incarceration.

Will there ever be a day when liberals take responsibility for even ONE of their multitude of failures?

@rich wheeler:

Why do you think that under Obama so many more undocumented immigrants have been deported than under Bush?–they call BHO the deportation Prez.

Because they were already under the process begun by the Bush administration.

http://www.cis.org/ICE-Illegal-Immigrant-Deportations

Obama administration scales back deportations in policy shift

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dhs-scales-back-deportations-aims-to-integrate-illegal-immigrants-into-society/2015/07/02/890960d2-1b56-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html

This takes me back 45+ years to a lament by Joan Baez. “Don’t you hear the voices in the night, Bobby, they’re crying to you?”
Written to Bob Dylan. Some things never change.

@rich wheeler:

: I’ll re phrase. You were in agreement (liked) with his incendiary musings.

What is “incendiary”? The fact that it is all true and the Democrats have been ignoring it and encouraging more illegal immigrants, hoping to cash in on illegal immigrant votes? Regardless of who gets killed?

Thoughts on your Gov. Perry’s call to bring more African American voters into the Repub fold? Admitting the Party’s mistakes of the 60’s.

So, again, what you are saying HERE is that supporting Civil Rights was a mistake? You have to be, since Republicans supported it while most Democrats opposed it. The fact is that blacks should be supporting Republicans because they are who want to allow the economy to grow to the point where ALL Americans can benefit from the opportunities. All Democrats offer (and have delivered) is more poverty and more handouts.

@Bill: Gov. Perry said “For too long Repubs have been content to lose the Black vote and lost our moral legitimacy as the Party of Lincoln, the Party of equal opportunity for all” He feels Repubs, moved AWAY from support of Civil Rights beginning with the nomination of Goldwater in 64 who OPPOSED the CRA. I wish Perry well in his outreach–In his denunciation of Trump ( echoed by Bush and Rubio) he continues an outreach to the critical Latino vote 16-18% of the electorate.
To win on the National stage Repubs. need as close as possible to 20% of the Black vote and 40% of the Latino vote—Trump is making this task more difficult.

@DrJohn: ” expressing it clumsily” Ya think?

Mathman Bob Dylan—-a poet, singer song writer for my generation—love him.

@rich wheeler:

@Bill: Gov. Perry said “For too long Repubs have been content to lose the Black vote and lost our moral legitimacy as the Party of Lincoln, the Party of equal opportunity for all” He feels Repubs, moved AWAY from support of Civil Rights beginning with the nomination of Goldwater in 64 who OPPOSED the CRA

Oh, so THAT’S what he feels. Hmmm. I actually think he meant something different. Something more like the Republicans don’t speak directly to blacks, as Democrats do, saying, “Vote for me and I’ll give you this and that.” No, Republicans speak to everyone, not singling out, denying or favoring anyone. Democrats, on the other hand, pander and pander big-time.

While Goldwater may have opposed the CONSTITUTIONALITY of the Civil Rights Act, Democrats opposed its institution and fought hard against it, even to the point of defying their own party’s President. I might also remind you of the actions of the grass-roots Democrat… not pretty.

But cell phones and free money erases all those factual memories and a corrupt media constantly repeating the leftist diatribe of “anti-black Republicans (though the treatment the left affords blacks that do not align themselves with the left might tell a different story) has maintained the urban legend of the racist Republican party. Nothing could be further from the truth.

@rich wheeler:

How about answering my question in post #32? It is the very first line.

You are quite good at asking questions, but suck at answering them. Oh, well, that’s the liberals standard M.O.

Blacks believe that the Democrats are their friends. The Democrats are not their friends. Every bit of social engineering in the black community has only provided one thing; low information, dumbed down voters who are products of Democrat controlled inner city schools.

Just take a look at the percentages of minorities that live under the poverty level in California, yet California is a solid blue state. Blacks continue to vote against their own interests because they have been told by those riding on the coat tails of Dr. King that the Democrats are their friends.

Just look at you; you are a solid Dem although the Democrats have done their best to destroy our military as you shout “Semper Fi” and express your pride in being a Marine. Military moral has never been lower, not because of war, but because of radical, progressive policies. I would venture a guess that you supported Senator Barbara (Call Me Senator) Boxer. She was clear that because a bunch of morons in California elected her, her rank was sooooooo much more important than an officer who had actually worked for his.

So, answer my questions are stop asking others questions. It is a two way street, whether you like it or not.

@retire05: As you know I’ve been a Dem. since a young, handsome Irish/American said “Ask not——”
Not long after I joined The Marines.

@rich wheeler:

As you know I’ve been a Dem. since a young, handsome Irish/American said “Ask not——”

Then it has obviously never dawned on you that the JFK Democrat no longer exists.

The Nancy Pelosis and Harry Reids have managed to purge your party of anyone who thought like Jack Kennedy did.

@DrJohn: It surely is a distraction–one that could derail any hope of a Republican Pres. victory in 2016. The longer he stays around and keeps talking—He’ll fire up enough right wingers–as seen here—to win a couple of primaries and make life very difficult for both the Party and the eventual winner.

@john: And, because the left is so desperate for an alternative to lying, corrupt Hellary, Bernie is closing in on her.

Why don’t you tell us what was inaccurate about what Trump said? Let’s see how smart you are. None of your other liberal puppets can, let’s see you take the challenge.

@rich wheeler:

You left wingers are sure into holding everyone of a particular political bent responsible for what one person of a particular bent says. Where is the outrage from the left, you know, the Saviors of Black Folk, over the comments by George Takei? Why don’t we hold you to the same standard? Meaning that all Democrats should be thought of as stupid as Hank Johnson or Sheila Jackson Lee, or even Harry Reid who I really believe deals with senility?

What Trump said is true. Mexico dumps its peon class on the United States and then refuses to take them back. Mexico is just a nation built on caste, the truly haves and the truly have-nots. It is not, and never has been, a friend to its neighbor to El Norte. $25 BILLION goes back to Mexico every year in remittances sent by those Mexican citizens working here. If it wasn’t for those remittances, Mexico would look like Greece.

And while you’re at it, since you seem to be so interested in what Rick Perry said about black Americans, why don’t you share with us all the wonderful things Democrats have done for black America?

@Rich Wheeler #40 etc.:

Re: Retire05 #49:

“why don’t you share with us all the wonderful things Democrats have done for black America?”

You could START with: Working hard to get Blacks to register AND to vote – their opinions don’t count for much when they don’t express themselves in the voting booth – and you could add that Democrats don’t pursue the many voter-intimidation practices the GOP has used to limit the influence minorities have on election results.