The Trump campaign has consistently pointed to unauthorized immigration as the cause of a series of problems it says plagues the country. That is rarely actually the case.
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Former President Donald J. Trump at the southern border in Cochise County, Ariz. in August.
To former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, the root cause of many of the issues in the United States is simple.
Be it gun violence, high housing costs, long wait times at emergency rooms or an impending depletion of disaster relief funding, Mr. Trump and Senator JD Vance have offered the same diagnosis: All are because of unauthorized immigration.
“The mass migration invasion has crushed wages, crashed school systems — your systems are a disaster — wrecked the standard of living and brought crime, drugs, misery and death,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in California over the weekend.
By casting migrants as agents of ruin and destruction, the Republican nominees are peddling a raft of specious claims that underline the extent to which nativist sentiment has become central to their campaign. But seldom is unauthorized immigration the actual cause of the problems they say plague the country.
Here’s a fact check.
The Trump campaign has misleadingly blamed illegal immigration for:
- Hospital wait times
- Illegal guns
- Serious crime
- Long-term funding shortfalls for Social Security and disaster relief, and high housing prices
Hospital wait times
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