Donald Trump Arguments Linking Mexican Immigrants

In the first argument, Trump mentions 5 Americans who were killed by undocumented immigrants as a premise (P1) to support his conclusion (C1/P2). However, such small number of samples is not sufficient to represent the entire group, considering the fact that there are approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. Moreover, Trump only provides examples to support his conclusion and there is no mention of a counterexample, nor the percentage of criminals among illegal immigrants. Therefore, it is difficult to conclude whether the samples have been randomly

Not only do some Americans believe that immigrants take jobs away from Americans, but they also believe that immigrants bring crime to America. President Donald Trump has made numerous remarks about immigration and crime, suggesting that the two are linked. However when the amount of immigrants living in America, both documented and undocumented, increased sharply between the years of 1990 and 2010, the United States violent crime rate plummeted by 45% and the property crime rate declined by

Immigration is one of the central themes of the founding of the United States and as such it is often the epicenter of controversy among both citizens and policymakers. Throughout the twentieth century, American citizens and policymakers have brought to the forefront the importance of immigration and the role immigrants play within society. This can be a cause of friction between immigrants and multi-generational citizens because immigrants are often viewed with a negative connotation. They are often blamed for stealing jobs from hardworking citizens, draining the healthcare system and adding to the homeless population. They are associated with crime, poverty and in general they are perceived as undesirable members of society (Spenkuch, 2014). The relationship between crime and immigrants is of particular importance because there is a common perception that immigrants cause crime and their neighborhoods are riddled with criminal activity. Also important to note is that the characteristics of immigrants tend to coincide with members of the native-born population that are disproportionally incarceration. In general, they are poorly educated, earn low wages and are young, males. This led to the perception that incoming immigrants continuously add to the lower class, criminal population. In order to clearly understand the relationship between the two concepts they must be examined both from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint

Donald Trump’s outrageous remarks against Latinos and immigrants haven’t gone unnoticed by the Latino community, because words matter. But Obama’s recent decision to end the “wet foot, dry foot” policy for Cubans, reminded us that actions speak louder than words, and matter most.

Although events such as San Bernardino in 2015 provide anecdotal evidence of immigrants committing acts of extreme violence, these events are extremely rare. Nonetheless, tragedies such as these inevitably grab headlines and capture the attention of millions of Americans across the country. Tragedies such as the attack in San Bernardino hold strong emotional appeal to proponents for restrictive immigration policy. However, these rare and uncontrollable events should not provide the base of logic for America’s national immigration policy as they are not a proxy for immigrant behavior as a whole. Various statistics regarding crime among immigrants may reveal an underlying reason for lower crime rates, which is that the majority of immigrants understand the implications of committing a crime and know that it would not be in their best interest as a new member of the country they wish to call home. Natives, moreover, have crime rates five times that of immigrants. This demonstrates the potential positive externalities that immigrants contribute to the social sphere by lowering the crime rate and acting as models within urban America.

In the world of politics, immigration has been a hot topic. Several cases have arised, detailing attacks, bombings, and other insipid acts of hate. However, should the whole of the population be responsible for the acts of the few? Several people believe that immigration, for one reason or another, should be stopped, our president included. One of Donald Trump’s first executive orders was to cease all immigration into the country for 90 to 120 days- Syrians are banned indefinitely. To add to the already heinous crime, Trump’s policy is to focus on Christian immigrants. This action is not only and odious, disgusting act, but it’s also illegal.

So I was digging through the internet trying to find an immigration article to do for my current event assignment when I stumbled upon an article recently published by WIRED about illegal immigration after the third presidential debate. Now being a conservative and a trump supporter I am not a huge favor of illegal immigration as you may imagine, but I do have an open mind and was willing to take a look to see if the fax really matched up. So right off the bat, I watch the 2 1/2 minute long video about how illegal immigration is an effect in the United States as much as some presidential candidates have said so. so what the article was talking about was mainly how crime rate has dropped in the 20 years is how violent crimes were down 50%

According to the article it’s around 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. It notes that not every illegal immigrant is a bad person; however, 11 million people is a wide mixture of a lot of characters. It has been proven that of the 11 million people here around 60% of them have been in the States for at least a decade. The article spoke with a woman named Lydia who was saved from deportation from the Obama administration because she had never committed a major crime while she was here. Now, she has to check in once a year with an immigration agent to continue living here. However, since President Trump is in office she is now facing deportation. In the article, many other stories are told about innocent and non-innocent people being tracked down & deported back to their original birth countries. Many of these people are innocent, and want to stay here. The article describes many situations in families are getting split up because parents are being deported, but their children legally are US citizens.

It is proven that immigrants are far more afraid and less likely to as well participate in any crime involved activities, quit their jobs, shoplift, hurt others in any way, shape or form, or do something that could get them arrested. It’s the sense of fear they have for getting deported, but it may also be that good spirit in which they truly came here to start a better life with no problems. Many comparisons between cities, communities and counties are done by economists to differentiate the links of local concentration of immigrants and the rates of crime and violence in that specified area. Results showed that the higher number concentration of immigrants, the lower crime rate. There is no proven connection found between immigrants and higher crime

Today there is a dominant narrative of fear surrounding immigrants, especially those from Mexico, and Central/South America. This narrative stems from xenophobia, and racism, which as we all know is rooted deeply in the History of the United States. This fear is rationalised by the thought that the 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S are taking the jobs normally held by “true” Americans. Right now there is a man named Donald Trump, a multi billionaire businessman running in the 2016 presidential elections, who is taking advantage and intensifying this narrative. This rhetoric is scapegoating undocumented immigrants and blaming them for all the unemployment and crime in the United States. His influence, along with many others, on

The author of “16 reasons why Donald Trump isn't wrong on immigration”suggests that all immigrants commit crimes.The author tells that they all are drug dealers,rapists,or kidnappers.Yet only 22% of criminals are immigrants.The other 78% are Americans.

If you have not heard of Donald Trump, you have probably been living under a rock since at the very least the middle of 2015 when his presidential campaign begun. Donald Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States of America. Before running for president, Trump was, and still is, a businessman and television personality. He owns multi-million dollar properties and companies and appeared on a multitude of television shows, such as ‘The Apprentice’.

3.   Donald Trump has been claiming that the crime rates in the United States have been skyrocketing, while reading the “Crime ‘Carnage’” section in the article he never really discusses the crime rates overall, during his inauguration speech he only discusses the crime rates that have happened in the past year. According to the article, the “FBI data shows that the violent crime rate has been on a “decline” since 1991 when it increased up to 758.2 but it was only half of that in 2015 with a rate of 372.6”. The murder rates also increased, increased by 14% according to the analysis from the Brennan Center for Justice but only

Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York. He was an assertive child so his parents sent him to a military academy for high school. They hoped that his education there would also discipline him to make him a better child/person. He furthered his education by studying economics at Wharton College at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1971, after he finished college, he took over his father’s real estate company. He renamed the company the Trump Organization. As he was very involved in economics, he would buy many pieces of land and create buildings, mostly in the Manhattan area. Often times, Trump’s business methods and actions have been called into question. For example, in 1973, he was called into question because some of his tenants complained about discrimination towards them by Donald. Another scandal that he has been brought into are the numerous allegations that women have brought up saying that Donald sexually assaulted them, among other inappropriate actions. He married Melania Knauss, his now third and current wife, in 2005. He currently has 5 kids throughout his three wives On June 16, 2015, Trump announced he was running for president. Some policies that are linked to Trump is creating a wall between the United States and Mexico and he often emphasizes deporting Muslims. His policies are often scrutinized for being overly aggressive and unnecessary, linking back to his bias and character. In May 2016, Trump was called the

During the 2000’s Trump started in The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice, an NBC reality TV series that became extremely popular throughout the United States. In 2015 Trump took advantage of his high-profile persona and announced his run for the GOP candidate in the Presidential election of 2016 (Bio). Trumps history has developed and shaped both his personality and leadership skills .