Economics

984 readers

116 users here now

founded 2 years ago

Trump’s hate-filled rant ignores facts on immigrant crime and economic benefits (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/economics@lemmy.world

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Donald Trump's hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday blaming immigrants for crime, "social dysfunction" and economic hardship is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics, which show clearly that immigrants dramatically bolster the US economy and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

"Trump’s hate-filled rant ignores facts on immigrant crime and economic benefits"

Join us tomorrow when we report the headline: "The war on drugs not having desired effect in reducing crime or drug use"

Oh. Are we not reporting obvious things as news? I thought that's what this was.