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Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. What's the Reality?
Source: New York Times
Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. Whats the Reality?
By JOE WARD and ANJALI SINGHVI JAN. 11, 2019
President Trump has frequently called the situation at the southern border with Mexico a crisis and insists that building his long-promised border wall will fix it. Here are some of Mr. Trumps most common assertions of a crisis, and the reality of what we know about immigrants and the border.
We cant have people pouring into our country like they have over the last 10 years.
THE REALITY Illegal border crossings have been declining for nearly two decades. In 2017, border-crossing apprehensions were at their lowest point since 1971.
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Every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90 percent of which floods across from our southern border.
THE REALITY It is true that the majority of heroin enters the United States through the southern border, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. But the D.E.A. also says that most heroin is brought into the country in vehicles entering through legal border crossings, not through the areas where walls are proposed or already exist.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/11/us/politics/trump-border-crisis-reality.html
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Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. What's the Reality? (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2019
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calimary
(81,389 posts)1. There IS a crisis, at the border - and everywhere else.
Its HIM.
underpants
(182,851 posts)2. I've always wondered about commercial trucks moving drugs over the border
I'd think it's a pretty nice cover. Stick a package somewhere in the truck. I'm not sure how frequently they get stopped and searched though.
MyOwnPeace
(16,936 posts)3. Oh, there they go again............
trying to use FACTS to prove a point!
Thank goodness IQ45 will come out and let everybody know that this is just "FAKE NEWS!"