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Fact-checking Trump’s weekly address on immigrants, crime and sanctuary cities

The following article by Salvador Rizzo was posted on the Washington Post website March 15, 2018:

The president has uses misleading anecdotal evidence to illustrate his point. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

President Trump has a habit of linking undocumented immigrants to grisly crimes when, in fact, most of the available data and research say immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the U.S.-born population.

We’ve twice given Four Pinocchios to Trump for these claims (in 2018 and 2015), but the president continues to marshal anecdotal evidence of immigrant crimes to make the case for a massive wall along the southern border. Continue reading “Fact-checking Trump’s weekly address on immigrants, crime and sanctuary cities”

The Effects of Sanctuary Policies on Crime and the Economy

The following article by Tom K. Wong was posted on the Center for American Progress website January 26, 2017:

AP/Gerald Herbert
The historic Treme section of New Orleans, October 2012.

Introduction and summary

As the Trump administration begins to implement its immigration policy agenda, the issue of local assistance with federal immigration enforcement officials is back in the spotlight. So-called sanctuary jurisdictions are one focus of that debate. Sanctuary counties—as defined by this report—are counties that do not assist federal immigration enforcement officials by holding people in custody beyond their release date.1 Using an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, dataset obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center,2 the analyses in this report provide new insights about how sanctuary counties perform across a range of social and economic indicators when compared to non-sanctuary counties. Continue reading “The Effects of Sanctuary Policies on Crime and the Economy”