Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison tweeted that the Supreme Court “ratified Donald Trump’s ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entry into the United States.” That is a Trump quote from the presidential campaign. But his actual executive actions didn’t go that far.
Issues: immigration
Is Illegal Immigration Linked to More or Less Crime?
President Donald Trump said it’s “not true” that immigrants in the U.S. illegally are “safer than the people that live in the country,” providing several crime statistics he claimed represented the “toll of illegal immigration.” Sen. Bernie Sanders made the opposite claim, saying: “I understand that the crime rate among undocumented people is actually lower than the general population.”
Video: Nielsen’s Policy Distortion
More Bogus Border Claims
Nielsen’s Rhetoric on Family Separations
Q&A on Border Detention of Children
Video: Has Trump’s Wall Construction Begun?
Trump’s and Pelosi’s Immigration Spat
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee is a liberal environmental advocacy organization founded by San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer.