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Trump responds to “Abolish ICE” with false claims America is being overrun by MS-13

"In 466 days, President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims"

Trump said without ICE, Americans are going to be afraid to leave their homes.

By Emily Stewart Jun 30, 2018, 3:50pm EDT

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MS-13 is not taking over the United States

MS-13, a Salvadoran-American gang, has a presence in a number of United States cities, including Los Angles, New York, Boston, and Washington, DC. Despite Trump’s claim last year that MS-13 had “literally taken over towns and cities,” there are no American municipalities ruled by it. Nor are there any that have been “liberated” from it.

Trump and Republicans have used MS-13 as a proxy to demonize immigrants and given it outsized importance compared to its actual impact. As Vox’s Dara Lind explains, MS-13 hasn’t reversed nationwide trends of declining violent crime (even in the areas where their presence is strongest), and the gang only has about 10,000 members in the United States — a fraction of the estimated 1.4 million members of US gangs nationally.

The president has sought to cast immigrants as violent and dangerous criminals who pose an imminent threat to the US. Just last week, the White House held an event highlighting families who have lost loved ones to crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants, bizarrely autographing victims’ photos.

It’s a recurring pattern for Trump: He holds up extreme actors within one religious or ethnic group and treats them as representative of the whole, in order to stoke fears and justify restrictive immigration policies. In January, the White House released a report attempting to tie immigration to terrorism, and the president is quick to blame Muslims for terror attacks, but he’s slower to speak out when the perpetrators are not Muslim.

He’s doing the same with immigrants coming over the US-Mexico border, warning America would be lost without ICE, overrun by a gang that couldn’t even fill the smallest NFL stadium.

With links - https://www.vox.com/2018/6/30/17521298/trump-abolish-ice-ms-13

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The undocumented immigrants do much less crime per capita than american born citizens
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