Just think about it. If there are millions of people who agree this man's crazy and obviously racist speech, then that means that these people have been walking among us all this time. May be they are openly racist or low key racist or maybe they just like the fact that there someone who's screaming the crazy things they think on a daily basis on national television. Then they feel like their opinions have been validated if this man of power believes this then surely it has to be true.
Only it is not true and it is extreme harmful talk to be happening during election season.
But many of the things politicians are saying can be proven false with these statistics.
- Immigrants (both legal and unauthorized) are statistically immigrants (both legal and unauthorized) are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans (White American).
- Immigrants start small business at almost twice the rate of those born in the US.
- Out of the 11 million immigrants that currently live in the US, only 10,000 of them have been convicted of a crime. Out of that 10,000, 130 of them were convicted of a violent crime and/or felony
All in all, these politicians are talking about a culture and community that they know nothing about. They're comments are invalid in my eyes because no one should feel intimidated in their own home.
This post will be updated shortly.
For more information:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/beckycatherineharris/what-it-feels-like-to-hear-trumps-speech-as-a-mexican-americ#.vrwoQDJ4M
http://mic.com/articles/133601/this-is-what-the-harrowing-future-of-mass-deportation-may-look-like#.g6y25yIVt
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