Republicans make wild claims about the dangers of immigration. Here's the truth.

[Lunabell]

Trump and his cronies are leaning into five splashy talking points about illegal immigration. But the facts are a bit different.

Trumpist Republicans are using the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border of the US, as well as a surge of migrants seeking legal asylum, to threaten a government shutdown and no added funds for Ukraine.

They’re using five lies to make their case.

See the article for the five lies.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/12/whats-wrong-with-republicans-immigration-claims?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[Diamond_Dog]

1. A big K and R!

[badgolfer]

2. Immigrants taking American jobs

I would like to ask all of the Republicans living in the Midwest which jobs are immigrants taking from Americans?

Do Republican sons and daughters want to work in feed lots, slaughterhouses, picking crops, or work landscaping jobs?

[forgotmylogin]

4. They think every Mexican is a drug cartel leader.

99% just want to come here and work in a hotel resetting rooms or help build houses - they want to work out of the range of drug cartel violence also.

I grew up on this. They need to lock the Republicans in a room and blast it 24/7.

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[eppur_se_muova]

3. Another excellent argument from Reich, my favorite "pundit" ...

Despite being a Dem through and through, his arguments are so strongly rooted in fact they aren't partisan -- just truthful.