MSNBC's Ali Velshi Drops A Fact Check Bomb On Trump's MS-13 Invasion Lie

[applegrove]

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/03/msnbcs-ali-velshi-drops-a-fact-check-bomb-on-trumps-ms-13-invasion-lie.html

"SNIP..........


Velshi ran through the real MS-13 immigration numbers and said, “Let me just repeat those numbers. 180 ms-13 gang members caught at the border out of 187,000 people who are detained at the border. This isn’t the number of people who cross at the border, this number with this as the denominator. That means ms-13 members after the 300% increase, make up less than 1% of the people detained at the border. This is not an invasion.”

Trump’s MS-13 invasion is a lie
Trump has been using the claim that MS-13 is invading America as a pretext for his bigoted immigration policy. The fact is that MS-13 is not invading America, and that gang members and criminals make up a tiny number of immigrants apprehended on the border. Trump is using this lie to scare the Republican base into getting out to vote in the midterms. It is not Barack Obama who is coming to get scared white Republicans anymore. It’s MS-13. The playbook is the same, only the boogeyman has changed.

The White House is also falsely claiming that anyone who doesn’t want babies ripped away from their parents and locked in cages is pro-MS-13. The official White House Twitter account used this line of attack on potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Kamala Harris (CA). MS-13 is a very violent gang, but they are falsely used as political cover for a racist immigration policy.

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[applegrove]

1. I wonder what the percentages would be for Russians? Including white collar criminals and

election rat f***ers. Probably miniscule numbers too. Most people are good people including immigrants.

[calimary]

2. About time somebody did.

Better yet, seems safe to assume ANYTHING that comes out of donald’s Mouth is a lie. He’s had the fork in his tongue cosmetically covered, though.

[unc70]

3. Less than one tenth of one percent

[Squinch]

4. This whole MS13 hysteria mongering needs to be exposed for the

lies it is over and over again until people realize how ridiculous this shit is.

[Maraya1969]

5. It's like saying we shouldn't allow people from Italy to immigrate here because of the Mob

[duforsure]

6. He also claims

democrats want open borders when in May of 2015 the deportation numbers were thousands higher than in 2018 in May were much much lower, and remember President Obama was called the Deporter in Chief by many people on both sides of the border. Everything trump has claimed is BS, and he knows its BS, but he has some believing his propaganda . That's why he attacks the DOJ, it deals in the truth, and that's his worse enemy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Less than one tenth of one percent. . . . nt

[Ccarmona]

8. Trump Offers the Same Message as What Those EMS Tests on Radio Should Say:

“To keep paranoia at the proper level....”

[lpbk2713]

9. Meanwhile ... Trump continues to talk out of his ass.

[Maggiemayhem]

11. Please correct this

and put a decimal in front of 1%.

[Ilsa]

12. I noticed the verbal math error this afternoon. It is not just less than 1%.

It is less than one-tenth of 1%. The number was 0.096%. That rounds to 0.1%.

[Scurrilous]

13. K&R

[kwassa]

14. There were 403 murders in Virginia. 3 were from MS13.

and Virginia and Maryland are areas were they are relatively active.

By the way, MS13 is an American gang. It formed in Los Angeles, and members were later deported back to El Salvador.