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Showing posts with label fear mongering. Show all posts
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05 November 2018
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04 November 2018
Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim that Democrats let a cop-killing immigrant into the country 1NOV18
DARLING of the religious right wing in spite of his affairs, his sexual assaults, his misogyny, fascism, racism, bigotry, xenophobia, hatred and oh yes, his serial, compulsive lying, here is another of the drumpf / trump-pence administration's liar, liar accusations created to spread fear of and against immigrants, especially those from Latin America just in time for the 2018 Midterm elections. From PolitiFact.....
Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim that Democrats let a cop-killing immigrant into the country
In his final push before the midterms, President Donald Trump promoted a political video that says Democrats are responsible for letting a murderer stay in the country illegally to kill people.
Trump tweeted a campaign-style video Oct. 31 about two California sheriff officers who were shot to death by an immigrant in the country illegally.
The video opens with courtroom footage of a smiling Luis Bracamontes. Superimposed are the words, "Illegal immigrant, Luis Bracamontes, killed our people!"
As Bracamontes boasts about killing the two officers and saying he would kill more if he could, new text says, "Democrats let him into our country."
That’s quickly followed with, "Democrats let him stay."
The video continues with footage from the caravan of Central Americans moving north in Mexico. At the end, it returns to Bracamontes’ smirking face and asks, "Who else would Democrats let in?"
The final text says, "President Donald Trump and Republicans are making America safe again."
Was Bracamontes in America because Democrats let him in? Not for his most recent entry. And did lax policies under Democrats let him stay? He evaded discovery, despite increasing efforts to track down criminal and immigration law offenders.
The slayings
Bracamontes in April was sentenced to death for the killings in California of Detective Michael Davis, Jr., and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver.
Davis, of the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, responded in October 2014 to a call of a suspicious vehicle occupied by a man and a woman. Davis was shot as he got out of his car and later died in the hospital.
Authorities said that before shooting Davis, Bracamontes also shot and killed Oliver, of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, when he was investigating a suspicious vehicle in a motel parking lot that same day. Authorities said Bracamontes shot Oliver in the forehead and then fled.
Bracamontes was convicted of the killings in February 2018; he is currently in California's San Quentis State Prison. His wife, Janelle Monroy, was convicted of assisting Bracamontes and sentenced to nearly 25 years in prison, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Tracking Bracamontes’ path
Bracamontes comes from Mexico, and his adult life followed a pattern of sneaking across the border, being deported, and sneaking back in.
He was arrested for drug possession in Arizona in 1996. That was in Maricopa County, the home of then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Federal authorities deported him in 1997.
He was arrested in Arizona again in 1998, turned over to immigration authorities, but apparently not deported. Another arrest on drug and weapons charges followedin 2001, and he was deported again. (There’s one report of another arrest in Maricopa County later in 2001.)
Sometime after 2001, Bracamontes moved to Utah and began using an alias.
Utah court records show that between 2003 and 2009, he had 10 driving violations. But none were serious enough to require fingerprints, according to the New York Times. In 2010, Utah entered into an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to assist the agency in immigration enforcement.
Enforcement under Democratic and Republican administrations
Bracamontes’ time in America up to the killings spanned three administrations.
He was arrested and deported once under Democratic President Bill Clinton, but there was a failure to deport him in 1998.
He was arrested and deported again in 2001, this time under Republican President George W. Bush. He came back that same year, and was arrested again in 2001.
After that, Bracamontes apparently evaded deportation through the time of his 2014 killing spree during the administration of Democratic President Barack Obama.
So for eight years, from 2001 through 2008, you could argue a Republican administration failed to identify and definitively deport him. For five years, from 2009 to 2014, a Democratic administration similarly failed. (And if you want to give blame to Congress for not passing stricter laws or dedicating more resources, the two different parties shared control of Congress during the timeframe in question.)
Immigration enforcement tools strengthened after 9/11 with the subsequent creation of the Department of Homeland Security, said Randy Capps, director of research for U.S. programs at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.
The Obama administration ramped up efforts to track down felons who were in the country illegally. It expanded the Secure Communities program launched under Bush. The program fostered information sharing among federal agencies and local jails.
Immigration enforcement priorities during Obama’s first term were just as broad as they are now, with people being deported for things such as traffic violations, Capps said. Immigrant advocates in 2014 famously dubbed Obama the "deporter-in-chief."
Overall, research shows that the crime rate among immigrants, including those here illegally, is lower than in the general population, Capps said.
"The implication of this video is that there’s a large number of criminals in the unauthorized population, which isn’t true," Capps said. "That’s the fundamental point of this commercial, and it’s wrong."
It’s not the first time that Trump has brought up Bracamontes in his narrative about illegal immigration. Trump invited the officers’ family members to his first address to a joint session of Congress in 2017, where he highlighted crimes by immigrants in the country illegally.
Trump attempts to link caravan to Democrats
Trump’s tweet included footage of migrants walking north to the United States, of some attempting to push through a fence at the Guatemala-Mexico border, and of a Fox News interview of a man in the caravan saying he wanted to ask for pardon. A woman translating in the video says the pardon he’s seeking is for attempted murder.
Trump’s tweet suggests Democrats would let in murderers into the United States. Democrats are not telling caravans to come in, as Trump has falsely claimed. They’ve said people who seek asylum should be allowed to go through that legal process. But asylum applicants would need to be screened by Trump’s administration before being granted the immigration protection.
Our ruling
Trump tweeted a video that said "Democrats let him (cop killer Luis Bracamontes) into our country," and "Democrats let him stay."
The reality is that Bracamontes’ last illegal entry was under Bush, a Republican president. The majority of his time going undetected was also on the Republican watch, though some of it was on the Democrats’ watch, too.
Democratic and Republican administrations deported Bracamontes, but also failed to keep Bracamontes out of the United States. We found no evidence that he was proactively allowed to stay. We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
Clarification: Federal immigration enforcement was reorganized after 9/11, and subsequently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, received its current name. This report has been updated to remove references to the name ICE prior to 2003.
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29 October 2018
2018 MIDTERM ELECTIONS
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17 February 2017
Trump’s pick to replace Michael Flynn as national security adviser turns down offer, people familiar with decision say 16FEB17
RETIRED Vice Adm. Robert Howard turned down the drumpf/trump-pence administration's offer to be the national security advisor because he lacks the immorality to be associated with their administration. He is not going to lower himself to participating in their Orwellian propaganda campaign of xenophobia, bigotry, hate and fear mongering, and will not cover up their treasonous dealings with putin's Russia. He wants nothing to do with the media coverage and coming congressional investigation into the drumpf/trump-pence dealing with Russia, the violations of U.S. law by michael flynn and possibly others in the drumpf/trump-pence campaign and government and business associates. This from the +Washington Post .....
Trump’s pick to replace Michael Flynn as national security adviser turns down offer, people familiar with decision say
Retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward has turned down President Trump's offer to become his new national security adviser, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
Harward would have replaced Michael Flynn, who announced his resignation late Monday amid allegations that he discussed U.S. sanctions with a Russian official before Trump took office and then misrepresented the content of that conversation to Vice President Pence and other administration officials.
One factor in Harward's decision was that he couldn't get a guarantee that he could select his own staff, according to a person close to Trump with knowledge of the discussions.
Other officials said his decision was motivated by financial concerns about leaving his job at aerospace firm Lockheed Martin, where he is a senior executive, and the impact it would have on his family.
One senior U.S. official said that “family considerations changed his mind.” A friend of Harward's added that he was also not fully comfortable with the quickly moving process. All requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
The news of Harward's decision was first reported by the Financial Times.
The administration had hoped to name Harward to the position this week, in an effort to soothe the turmoil rolling through the White House. Even before Flynn resigned, the administration was wooing Harward. The hard-charging former Navy SEAL was at the White House on Feb. 8 and then again this week, according to an administration official. Harward commanded high-risk operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and later parachuted into his own retirement ceremony from high altitude.
Trump suggested at a news conference Thursday that one of the reasons he felt he could let Flynn go was because he had a good replacement in mind, without naming that person.
“I have somebody that I think will be outstanding for the position,” he said. “And that also helps, I think, in the making of my decision.”
Harward's decision not to take the job leaves the White House scrambling to find a leader for the National Security Council, which is struggling to get its bearings.
Most National Security Council staffers are traditionally on temporary duty from the Defense and State departments and the intelligence agencies, but as many as 60 of those slots are vacant, according to senior officials who denied reports that the White House was having trouble recruiting to fill them. They said the vacancies are due to rotational and turnover delays in what are normally two-year assignments.
The White House hires about 75 of a total of more than 200 staffers on the council. The staff chosen by Flynn is heavily weighted toward the small world of military intelligence officials and strategists who rotated through Iraq and Afghanistan with him over the past decade.
Robert Costa, Karen DeYoung and John Wagner contributed to this report.
10 February 2017
Donald Trump wrong that murder rate is highest in 47 years 8FEB17
CONTINUING their Orwellian propaganda campaign of fear mongering the drumpf/trump-pence administration lied about the murder rate in the U.S. It has gone up the past 2 years, but not at the rate they state. It is more of their attempt to make people afraid and keep them afraid so the can present their plan to save us, to make us safe, and oh, that will mean you have to give up just a little bit of your civil liberties, your human rights. They want to govern by decree, not hampered by congress and the US constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the American judicial system, for which the have nothing but disdain. The real threat to our Republic isn't terrorism, immigration, Islam or the murder rate, it is the drumpf/trump-pence administration. From +PolitiFact ......
Donald Trump wrong that murder rate is highest in 47 years
One of President Donald Trump’s biggest campaign themes was that the United States is experiencing a crime plague of historical proportions. On Feb. 7, the newly elected chief executive invited a group of county sheriffs to the White House -- and proceeded to cite a startling crime statistic.
"The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years, right?" Trump said. "Did you know that? Forty-seven years. I used to use that -- I’d say that in a speech and everybody was surprised, because the press doesn’t tell it like it is. It wasn’t to their advantage to say that. But the murder rate is the highest it’s been in, I guess, from 45 to 47 years."
There’s a reason the press didn’t tout that figure — the statement was incorrect.
Trump has, on occasion, accurately stated a statistic along these lines. A day after talking with the sheriffs, Trump offered a more accurate version of this statistic during an address to the Major Cities Chiefs Association winter conference. And during the second presidential debate, Trump said, "We have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest in 45 years."
However, there’s a difference between saying the country’s largest cities experienced their biggest annual increase in homicides in more than four decades (as Trump said during the debate) and saying that the country is experiencing its highest murder rate overall in more than four decades (as he told the sheriffs).
The national homicide rate is considerably lower than its peak in the 1990s:
The chart does show a clear spike between 2014 and 2015, but it’s not enough to reverse a decades-long trend in the national homicide rate. The preliminary statistics for 2016 -- which are not an apples-to-apples comparison to the full-year numbers used in this graph -- suggest that homicides rose once again between 2015 and 2016, by 5.2 percent.
But what’s also clear in this graph is that the overall homicide rate -- even accounting for the upward bumps in 2015 and potentially in 2016 -- is nowhere near the peak levels of the 1990s. The following graph shows raw totals (not rates) for murders going back to 1971. This graph shows the same peak period -- the early 1990s.
Specifically, the number of murders declined by 42 percent between 1993 and 2014, even as the U.S. population rose by 25 percent over the same period. So while homicides have recently risen -- a legitimate concern, experts say -- they are far below their high levels of the early 1990s, when the nation’s population was much smaller.
"Violent crime rates are up compared with historic lows, and they are still very, very low compared with just five or 10 years ago," Raymond Paternoster, a University of Maryland criminologist, told us in October.
Alan Lizotte, a University at Albany criminologist, agreed. "A small increase between two time points is not an increase when the 20-year trend is downward," he said in October. "If it went on for several years, it might indicate an increase."
Our ruling
Trump told the sheriffs, "The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years."
Actually, the highest murder rates in recent memory occurred during the early 1990s; after that, the rate fell dramatically until 2014, at which point it ticked up. That uptick did represent the biggest single-year rise in more than four decades, but that’s very different than what Trump said. We rate his statement False.
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