Huyu trump Atakuwa hatari, Ndugu zangu Kama hamna makaratasi muanze kutafuta.Trump amecharuka.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told the American public that beginning Jan. 20, 2017, safety will be restored.
That means putting an end to violence and crime afflicting the nation, he said. There are immigrants in the country illegally who are out endangering communities, Trump added.
"Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens," Trump said in his nomination acceptance speech Thursday.
We looked into that number to find out if that many convicted immigrants with deportations are out on the streets.
Trump’s campaign said his statement came from a June 2016 report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors more strict immigration policies. The Center for Immigration Studies, in turn, relied on data obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
According to CIS, there were more than 925,000 immigrants who had been ordered removed but were still in the country as of July 2015. And an estimated 20 percent of them had at least one criminal conviction — nearly all of whom were at large.
So Trump’s numbers are correct. But experts say there is some important context.
Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, a senior researcher at Pew Research Center, said the figure includes immigrants from countries that won’t accept them back.
"In these cases, the immigrants have to be released after they have completed their sentences," Gonzalez-Barrera said.
In other cases, their crimes were far from threatening. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 also criminalized minor crimes that before were not considered criminal, said Nestor Rodriguez, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Many young mothers with small children who seek asylum do not appear before immigration judges to argue their case "and thus are considered deported for criminal behavior (not appearing)," Rodriguez said. "These women and other migrants are not threatening ‘peaceful citizens’ but looking for informal jobs to support their families."
And in yet other instances, state and local jurisdictions have passed policies limiting cooperation with immigration authorities so they don’t notify them when a deportable noncitizen has completed a jail term or prison sentence, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director of the Migration Policy Institute.
Our ruling
Trump said "nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens."
According to federal data, 925,000 immigrants had been ordered removed but were still in the country as of July 2015. And an estimated 20 percent of them had at least one criminal conviction — nearly all of whom were at large.
However, immigration experts say some of those convicted criminals include people who failed to appear before a judge to argue their immigration case, and are not necessarily murderers or violent crime offenders. Trump’s statement is accurate, but needs additional information, we rate it Mostly True.
Source: politifact.com
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told the American public that beginning Jan. 20, 2017, safety will be restored.
That means putting an end to violence and crime afflicting the nation, he said. There are immigrants in the country illegally who are out endangering communities, Trump added.
"Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens," Trump said in his nomination acceptance speech Thursday.
We looked into that number to find out if that many convicted immigrants with deportations are out on the streets.
Trump’s campaign said his statement came from a June 2016 report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors more strict immigration policies. The Center for Immigration Studies, in turn, relied on data obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
According to CIS, there were more than 925,000 immigrants who had been ordered removed but were still in the country as of July 2015. And an estimated 20 percent of them had at least one criminal conviction — nearly all of whom were at large.
So Trump’s numbers are correct. But experts say there is some important context.
Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, a senior researcher at Pew Research Center, said the figure includes immigrants from countries that won’t accept them back.
"In these cases, the immigrants have to be released after they have completed their sentences," Gonzalez-Barrera said.
In other cases, their crimes were far from threatening. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 also criminalized minor crimes that before were not considered criminal, said Nestor Rodriguez, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Many young mothers with small children who seek asylum do not appear before immigration judges to argue their case "and thus are considered deported for criminal behavior (not appearing)," Rodriguez said. "These women and other migrants are not threatening ‘peaceful citizens’ but looking for informal jobs to support their families."
And in yet other instances, state and local jurisdictions have passed policies limiting cooperation with immigration authorities so they don’t notify them when a deportable noncitizen has completed a jail term or prison sentence, said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications director of the Migration Policy Institute.
Our ruling
Trump said "nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens."
According to federal data, 925,000 immigrants had been ordered removed but were still in the country as of July 2015. And an estimated 20 percent of them had at least one criminal conviction — nearly all of whom were at large.
However, immigration experts say some of those convicted criminals include people who failed to appear before a judge to argue their immigration case, and are not necessarily murderers or violent crime offenders. Trump’s statement is accurate, but needs additional information, we rate it Mostly True.
Source: politifact.com
