The Donald Trump film features images of migrants allegedly entering the United States from countries like Cameroon, Afghanistan, and China, as well as scary movie music and footage of migrants. Photos of people with piercings and videos of violent violence are set against nearby- ups of people waving and wrapping themselves in British flags.
Previous Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16.
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” They’re coming by the tons”, Trump says in the film, posted on his social media site. We’ll keep our edges safe. And we’ll grant you more sovereignty.”
In his remarks and virtual posts, Trump has ramped up anti- expat language, casting migrants as unsafe criminals “poisoning the heart” of America. His campaign rallies frequently feature falsehoods about immigration, but it has attracted a lot of his backers going up a century, when the phrase “build the roof” was sounded.
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But in a possible worrying sign for the Democrat, Trump’s information appears to be resonating with important parts of the partnership that Biden will need to get over in November.
According to an Associated Press- NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in March, roughly two-thirds of Americans now disapprove of how Biden is handling border security, including about 4 in 10 Democrats, 55 % of Black adults, and 73 % of Hispanic adults.
According to a recent Pew Research Center surveys, 32 % of Americans thought the situation was a crisis, while 32 % thought it was a big issue.
Vetress Boyce, a Chicago- based cultural fairness activist, was among those who expressed anger with Biden’s immigration policies and the state’s method as it tries to shelter just arriving migrants. Democrats should concentrate on Black neighborhoods, no newcomers, according to her argument.
After crossing the Rio Grande and entering the United States from Mexico on October 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas, migrants rush to be detained by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.  ,
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They are sending us people who are starving in this region in the same way that Black citizens are starving. They’re sending us people who want to avoid the problems and arrive here for a better life when the types these are suffering and have been suffering for over 100 years”, Boyce said. That recipe is a recipe for disaster. It’s a disaster that’s just about to occur.
Gracie Martinez is a 52- year- old Hispanic small business owner from Eagle Pass, Texas, the border town that Trump visited in February when he and Biden made same- day trips to the state. Martinez claimed to once be a Democrat and once supported former president Barack Obama, but she now supports Trump, primarily due to the border.
She remarked,” It’s horrible.” ” It’s tons and tons of people and they’re giving them medical and money, phones”, she said, complaining those who went through the legal immigration system are treated worse.
Eagle Pass resident Priscilla Hesles, 55, described the current situation as “almost an overtaking” that had altered the town.
We are unsure of where they are hiding. We do n’t know where they’ve infiltrated into and where are they going to come out of”, said Hesles, who said she used to take an evening walk to a local church, but stopped after she was shaken by an encounter with a group of men she alleged were migrants.
A$ 30 million ad campaign for the president’s reelection campaign, which includes a digital ad in English and Spanish highlighting Trump’s prior portrayal of Mexican immigrants as” criminals” and “rapists,” was recently launched.
The White House has been considering a number of executive actions that could significantly enact new immigration laws, effectively circling Congress since the bipartisan deal that Biden supported failed to pass.
Trump will campaign Tuesday in Wisconsin and Michigan, where he is expected to criticize Biden on immigration.
The former president refers to recent record-breaking arrests for southwest border crossings as an “invasion” carried out by Democrats to transform America. Trump accuses Biden of allowing illegal immigrants and potential terrorists into the country.
Trump says migrants — many of them women and children escaping poverty and violence — are “poisoning the blood” of America with drugs and disease and claims some migrants are” not people”. Extremism experts advise against using dehumanizing language when describing migrants.
According to Trump, there is no proof that foreign governments are ejecting their jails or mental hospitals. And while conservative news coverage has been dominated by several high- profile and heinous crimes allegedly committed by people in the country illegally, the latest FBI statistics show overall violent crime in the U. S. dropped again last year, continuing a downward trend after a pandemic- era spike.
Additionally, studies have found that illegal immigrants are far less likely than native-born Americans to have been detained for violent, drug, and property crimes.
The impact of the border is being felt far away from the border, which is a part of what has made it such a hot topic.
Trump allies, most notably Texas Gov. More than 100, 000 migrants have been transported by state-funded buses to Democratic-led cities like New York, Denver, and Chicago, where Democrats will hold their summer convention. Local leaders are frantically supplying new groups of migrants with emergency housing and medical care due to the influx, which has stretched city budgets.
To Rudy Menchaca, an Eagle Pass bar owner who also works for a company that imports Corona beer from Mexico, the problems at the border are hurting business.
Biden is counting on Menchaca to support his reelection campaign. The 27-year-old claimed he was never a fan of Trump’s rhetoric and how he depicted Hispanics and Mexicans. But he also said he was warming to the idea of backing Trump.
Menchaca cited Texas forces sent to the border as saying,” I need those soldiers to be around if I have my business.” ” The bad ones that enter” could enter.
Donald Trump falsely claims that immigrant students are relocating to New York City students despite the lack of classroom space in the city.
Donald Trump falsely claims that immigrant students are relocating to New York City students despite the lack of classroom space in the city.
Former US President Donald Trump made a false claim this week that migrant students are relocating other students from New York City’s schools.
In fact, Chalkbeat found that the city’s public schools have struggled in recent years with the opposite problem: too many empty seats.
Although enrollment has increased slightly this school year due to an influx of migrant students, enrollment is still about 9 % below pre-pandemic levels. Lower enrollment can result in smaller budgets, mergers, and closures, according to education department officials who have stated that increasing school rosters is a top priority.
In an interview with the Right Side Broadcasting Network on March 4, Trump claimed without evidence that” we have children that are no longer going to school” because of the influx of migrants.
He continued,” I’m not blaming them.” I’m saying that they take our students ‘ places like they do in New York City. We have these wonderful students who are going to school — all of a sudden they no longer have a seat”.
A representative for the Trump campaign declined to provide more information about his remarks. A spokesperson for the Education Department said the claims were false because there is no proof that any students have been displaced due to the arrival of new students.
” We will continue to work with students, families, and partners to ensure that newcomer students have what they need in our public schools and that our schools are well equipped to support these needs”, Education Department spokesperson Nicole Brownstein wrote in a statement.
Trump’s comments were also criticized by immigration advocates.
The New York Immigration Coalition’s director of economic justice and family empowerment, Liza Schwartzwald, said,” The idea that we somehow do n’t have space or that children are being removed from schools is just completely unfounded.”
Trump, the likely Republican nominee for president, has sought to make immigration a centerpiece of his reelection campaign and has escalated anti- immigrant rhetoric, promising to revive a ban from some Muslim- majority countries and refusing asylum claims. He has also stoked education debate by making education-related claims at a March 2 rally in Virginia that New York schools are overeducating students who speak languages” that nobody ever heard of.”
Republican governors of southern border states have sent busloads of immigrants to cities with Democratic leaders, including New York, since the summer of 2022. Over that period, about 36, 000 children who live in temporary housing have enrolled in the city’s public schools— including 18, 000 this school year — many of them migrants. When a student enrolls, city officials do not request a student’s immigration status.
Regardless of their immigration status, the city’s education department is required by law to provide a seat to any child who needs one. Many school communities have worked hard to welcome migrant students and provide appropriate instruction in English and their home language.
And while there is no proof that immigrants have displaced other students, some parent leaders and organizations have voiced their opposition to the new arrivals.
After migrant families were temporarily residing there because of severe wind damage to tent shelters at Floyd Bennett Field that housed newcomers, Brookly n’s James Madison High School switched to remote learning for one day in January. The episode generated vitriol from some families and morphed into a talking point for right- wing pundits. However, a number of students and parents were perplexed by the outcry and said the disruption was minor.
Senior Zola Zephirin told Chalkbeat,” The hostility toward the migrants was definitely uncalled for.” ” These are people, they have families, they come here and attempt to make a better life, just like many of the students at Madison”.
Sometimes schools have had to make room for newcomers. Some migrant families ‘ enrollment has been difficult because the city was forced to keep up, and schools frequently ca n’t find enough bilingual educators, a long-standing shortage area. At the same time, city officials have tweaked the school funding formula to funnel more dollars to schools with more students living in temporary housing — which benefits schools with more migrant children.
Mayor of New York Eric Adams has also sent mixed messages about the influx of immigrants. He claimed last year that the influx of migrants would “destroy” the city, which sparked outrage from immigrant organizations, and that they were to blame for the city’s services being cut. But he also celebrated the uptick in public school enrollment, fueled in part by new arrivals.
Some advocates, including Schwartzwald, draw parallels between Trump and Adams ‘ rhetoric and worry about the conditions that it creates for asylum seekers, some of whom have had repercussions in schools. For instance, some Newcomers High School students have petitioned for a new name in part because they worry that the phrase “puts a target on us” will be used against them.
” When Mayor Adams uses rhetoric where he — just like Trump — tries to create an’ us’ and a’ them’ — what he’s saying is not all immigrants are New Yorkers”, Schwartzwald said. Anyone who moves to New York to start a life is a New Yorker, as the saying goes.
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