Immigration Lies, Drugs & Sex Trafficking
The media's failure to fact check this is endangering society.
Just about everything you’ve been hearing about immigration is wrong. The numbers. The drugs. The sex trafficking. Yet for the media, somehow that’s not the big story. Instead, they’re focusing on a single, ludicrous cause celebre while ignoring these vital issues that affect millions of Americans.
It’s time to stop the madness. The news should empower you with the truth. That’s what I aim to do in the new episode of They Stand Corrected. (Available on all the players. Find yours here.)
You’ll learn that the big arguments Trump, “border czar” Tom Homan, and others have been using are lies:
21 million people have not poured into the country over the past four years.
People here illegally are not the ones bringing in the overwhelming majority of the fentanyl. (Shout out to the Cato Institute.) Also, fentanyl deaths rose in Trump’s first term.
Sex trafficking has not risen 600%, based on any available data I’ve found. Almost everyone convicted of human trafficking is a U.S. citizen. And convictions went down at the start of Trump’s first term.
Illegal immigration is a big problem, and must be addressed. But if Trump and the majority of Americans believe tackling that problem will go a long way in addressing fentanyl sex trafficking, these scourges will only get worse. This is a powerful reminder of why real journalism is a crucial societal responsibility. Truth matters.
More to say about all this in the next newsletters, as well as the “cause celebre” I mentioned: a non-citizen, radical activist who supports and justifies terrorism. No matter what the legal wrangling over Mahmoud Khalil ultimately determines, his story is getting tons of media attention while these lies that affect our entire country are getting virtually none. It’s time to tell the media: priorities, people.
Also in this episode:
Immigration reporting failures tie in to a misleading, made-for-the-media statement from Oscar-winning propagandist Yuval Abraham and a “human rights activist” interviewed on a public radio show.
The BBC blew it so badly that it pulled a “documentary” — which was straight up Hamas propaganda — of off its platforms. (I mention some great work from The Telegraph and CAMERA.)
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