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A thread on the track record of the US President, who just announced his urge to ban all immigration to the United States for the first time in its history.
He campaigned on banning all Muslims from entering, asserting their categorical “hatred” of America. He clarified that he hoped to include American Muslims abroad. https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262348-trump-calls-for-shutdown-of-muslims-entering-us
Since then, in two terrorist massacres, US-born non-Muslims have targeted Jews and Latinos.
Since then, in two terrorist massacres, US-born non-Muslims have targeted Jews and Latinos.
He has de-facto ended the US refugee program. He claimed it harms the budget.
That claim is fabricated. He ordered his officials to suppress research showing that. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/immigration/data-defies-trump-claims-that-refugees-and-asylees-are-a-taxpayer-burden/
Refugees have a net positive effect on the budget. His tax policy produced vast deficits.
That claim is fabricated. He ordered his officials to suppress research showing that. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/immigration/data-defies-trump-claims-that-refugees-and-asylees-are-a-taxpayer-burden/
Refugees have a net positive effect on the budget. His tax policy produced vast deficits.
In 2017, amidst a scorching economy at full employment, he pushed to bar most legal immigration, claiming that it was necessary to create US jobs.
The main study he cited to justify that false claim had been debunked six months earlier. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/stephen-miller-uses-debunked-mariel-boatlift-study-to-back-trump-immigration-crackdown-9545760
The main study he cited to justify that false claim had been debunked six months earlier. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/stephen-miller-uses-debunked-mariel-boatlift-study-to-back-trump-immigration-crackdown-9545760
Now, amidst economic depression, he asserts that barring all immigration indefinitely will create employment for Americans.
A similar policy targeting Mexicans during the Great Depression actually reduced native employment. https://www.nber.org/papers/w26399
A similar policy targeting Mexicans during the Great Depression actually reduced native employment. https://www.nber.org/papers/w26399
That happened because immigrants were the backbone of many industries that employed natives. That is even more true now than it was during the Great Depression.
So what is the track record? A constant, burning desire to eliminate legal immigration, in the best of economic times and the worst.
An explicit disregard for any kind of economic evidence.
And a belief that Americans are gullible enough to trust his bigoted quackery.
An explicit disregard for any kind of economic evidence.
And a belief that Americans are gullible enough to trust his bigoted quackery.
