Fact-checking over 12,000 of Donald Trump’s statements about immigration
Fact-checking over 12,000 of Donald Trump’s statements about immigration
- October 21, 2024
- Charis Kubrin, CPIP and criminology, law and society, Oct. 21, 2024, The Marshall Project
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Falsely linking immigration and crime has resulted in real policies. These include Secure Communities, a Department of Homeland Security Program that flags immigrants in local law enforcement custody for deportation, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program, which delegates some immigration enforcement tasks to local law enforcement. “None of them delivered the increased public safety that was promised,” said Charis Kubrin, a professor of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine. “Why? Because immigrant criminality was not a problem to begin with.” According to Kubrin, this focus shifts attention and resources from other public safety concerns such as mass shootings, violence against women and crimes with broad economic impact like fraud, corporate negligence and failure in regulation.
For the full story, please visit https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/10/21/fact-check-12000-trump-statements-immigrants.
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