TRUMP’S NOW INFAMOUS STATEMENT about Mexican immigrants caused NBC, Univision, and Macy’s to end business relationships with him. Yet Trump continues to stand by his original assertions.
Did his comments hold any element of truth? Here are a few facts that prove otherwise.
1. When the immigration population grows, crime actually declines.
Though the foreign-born population of the U.S. grew from 7.9% to 12.9% between 1990 to 2010, and the number of unauthorized immigrants tripled from 3.5 million to 11.2 million, FBI data showed that violence crime also declined 45 percent during that same period. The declines occured even in the states with the higher immigration populations: a 2008 report found that in the nineteen highest immigration states, the total crime rate declined more than 13% from 1999 to 2006. In the other 32 states, the crime rate only declined 7.1%.