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Rinse and repeat.

As Election Day approaches, former President Donald Trump retains telling the identical lies at occasion after occasion – many about immigration, however many others about quite a lot of extra matters.

Here’s a reality test of 18 false claims in his Tuesday remarks at his Mar-a-Lago membership and residence in Florida. This isn’t supposed as a complete record of his false claims on the occasion.

Harris’ border function: Trump falsely claimed that President Joe Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris “because the border czar,” including that, whatever the time period, “she was chargeable for the borders, completely accountable.” Biden by no means made Harris “border czar,” a label the White Home has all the time emphasised is inaccurate, and by no means put her answerable for border safety, a accountability of Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas. In actuality, Biden gave Harris a extra restricted immigration-related task in 2021, asking her to steer diplomacy with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an try to deal with the situations that prompted their residents to attempt to migrate to the US.

The folks on the ICE non-detained record: Trump, referring to a listing of immigrants with murder convictions, repeated his false declare that Harris “let the greater than 13,000 convicted unlawful aliens – no person would have let these folks into our nation.” In actuality, the Division of Homeland Safety and impartial consultants have famous that this determine is about individuals who entered the nation over many years, together with throughout Trump’s personal administration, not slightly below Biden and Harris – and the determine consists of people who find themselves presently incarcerated in federal, state and native prisons and jails. You’ll be able to learn extra right here.

Migrants in Springfield, Ohio: Trump falsely claimed of Springfield, Ohio:  “They dropped 32,000 unlawful aliens. They tried to provide them authorized terminology, however – it’s not. Unlawful aliens, 32,000 right into a 50,000 individual city, lovely city, no issues, and now they don’t know what to do.”

That is false in multiple means. Whereas we don’t know the immigration standing of every Haitian immigrant in Springfield, the group is, on the entire, within the nation lawfully. The Springfield metropolis web site says, “YES, Haitian immigrants are right here legally, below the Immigration Parole Program. As soon as right here, immigrants are then eligible to use for Non permanent Protected Standing (TPS).” Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wrote in a New York Instances op-ed about Springfield in September that the Haitian immigrants “are there legally” and that, as a Trump-Vance supporter, he’s “saddened” by the candidates’ disparagement of “the authorized migrants dwelling in Springfield.”

Second, no person “dropped” the immigrants into Springfield; the town’s Haitian residents have been not despatched there by a authorities resettlement program. Reasonably, they independently determined to maneuver to the town due to employment alternatives, inexpensive housing and the presence of a Haitian group, amongst different elements.

And whereas there isn’t a official tally of the variety of immigrants in Springfield, Trump’s “32,000” determine tremendously exceeds native estimates. The web site for the town of Springfield says there are an estimated 12,000 to fifteen,000 immigrants within the county that features Springfield, the place the whole inhabitants is about 138,000. Chris Prepare dinner, the county’s well being commissioner, mentioned in July that his group estimated the very best quantity was 10,000 to 12,000 Haitian residents within the county.

A gang and Aurora, Colorado: Trump falsely claimed {that a} gang from Venezuela has “actually taken over the city” in Aurora, Colorado, including “they’ve taken over giant sections of the city.”

The gang has members in Aurora and has prompted issues in some condominium buildings, nevertheless it has not come near taking on the town. Republican Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman mentioned in a September joint assertion, issued with the conservative chair of the town council’s public security committee, that the gang “has not ‘taken over’ the town” and that issues with the gang “skilled at a choose few properties don’t apply to the town as a complete or giant parts of it.” Coffman famous that the town’s police division had linked 10 folks to the gang and arrested eight.

The variety of migrants: Trump repeated his false declare that Harris “left 21 million aliens pour throughout our nation,” that means “let” fairly than “left.”  By way of September, the nation had recorded below 11 million nationwide “encounters” with migrants throughout the Biden administration, together with tens of millions who have been quickly expelled from the nation; even including in so-called gotaways who evaded detection, estimated by Home Republicans as being roughly 2 million, there’s no means the whole is “21 million.”

International international locations and jails: Trump repeated his false declare that overseas leaders around the globe have emptied their jails to permit their criminals emigrate to the US.

“I mentioned, ‘I do know what they’re going to do. They’re going to open up their jails and simply dump them into the US.’ And that’s what occurred.” He mentioned he was speaking not nearly international locations close to the US however “throughout South America, all around the Center East, throughout Asia, throughout Europe, throughout Africa.”

There isn’t a proof for this declare. The recorded international jail inhabitants elevated from October 2021 to April 2024, from at the least about 10.77 million folks to at the least about 10.99 million folks, in keeping with the World Jail Inhabitants Listing compiled by consultants in the UK.

“I do a day by day information search to see what’s happening in prisons around the globe and have seen completely no proof that any nation is emptying its prisons and sending all of them to the US,” Helen Truthful, co-author of the jail inhabitants record and analysis fellow on the Institute for Crime & Justice Coverage Analysis at Birkbeck, College of London, mentioned in June, when Trump made the same declare.

Venezuela and jails: Trump repeated his baseless story about Venezuela particularly “emptying their jails into our nation,” including, “They’ve taken all their criminals, most of them – the remaining are coming, they’re all coming – they’ve taken their drug sellers, and so they’ve put them into the US of America. Thanks very a lot, Kamala, respect it.”

There isn’t a foundation for the declare that Venezuela has one way or the other intentionally “put” criminals into the US, and Trump has by no means corroborated the declare that it’s emptying its prisons for migration functions; consultants have informed “Time TV”, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org that they know of no proof for it.

“We have now no proof that the Venezuelan authorities is emptying its prisons or psychological well being establishments to ship them exterior the nation, in different phrases, to the U.S. or another nation,” Roberto Briceño-León, founder and director of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, an impartial group that tracks violence within the nation, mentioned in an e-mail to “Time TV” in June, after Trump made comparable claims.

Harris and “lacking” or “useless” youngsters: Trump falsely claimed that, below Biden and Harris, “325,000 youngsters are lacking, useless, intercourse slaves or slaves – 325,000 youngsters who got here in by means of the open border are actually lacking. A lot of them are useless.”

Trump was grossly distorting federal statistics.

He seemed to be referring to an August report from the Homeland Safety Division’s Workplace of Inspector Normal, which mentioned ICE reported greater than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant youngsters failed to seem as scheduled for immigration courtroom hearings after being launched or transferred out of custody between fiscal years 2019 and 2023 – a interval that, notably, consists of two years and 4 months below the Trump administration. The report additionally mentioned that 291,000 unaccompanied migrant youngsters throughout this era weren’t given notices to seem in courtroom.

The report mentioned that ICE has “no assurances” these youngsters “are secure from trafficking, exploitation, or pressured labor.” However it didn’t definitively assert that any of them have been being exploited – not to mention that many are useless, a declare consultants say is nonsense.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow on the American Immigration Council, informed “Time TV” in a message this summer time: “Lengthy story quick, no, there will not be 320,000 children lacking. 32,000 children missed courtroom. That doesn’t imply they’re lacking, it means they missed courtroom (both as a result of their sponsor didn’t convey them or they’re youngsters who didn’t wish to present up). The remaining 291,000 instances talked about by the OIG are instances the place ICE hasn’t filed the paperwork to start out their immigration courtroom instances.”

FEMA and North Carolina: Trump repeated his false declare that the federal authorities has not responded to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, saying, “They haven’t proven up. They’re not in North Carolina. The folks of North Carolina have suffered extremely and there’s simply no person to assist them. “

This isn’t even near true; the Federal Emergency Administration Company instantly responded to the catastrophe in North Carolina and mentioned Friday that it had greater than 1,700 employees deployed within the state. FEMA mentioned on October 16 that it had accredited greater than $100 million in particular person support to North Carolina residents.

At a briefing in early October, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, mentioned, “We’re grateful for the short actions and shut communications that now we have had with the president and with the FEMA group.” State emergency administration director Will Ray mentioned on the briefing: “We’re grateful for the assist not simply from the 22 states which have despatched groups to assist us but additionally from our FEMA group and different members of the federal household.”

FEMA and migrants: Trump, nonetheless criticizing the hurricane response, mentioned of FEMA: “They mentioned that the cash was spent on bringing unlawful migrants into our nation – they spent near a billion {dollars}.”

FEMA didn’t spend its catastrophe reduction cash on undocumented folks.
Congress appropriated the company greater than $35 billion in catastrophe reduction funds for fiscal 2024, in keeping with official FEMA statistics, and in addition gave FEMA a a lot smaller pool of cash, $650 million in fiscal 2024, for a program aimed toward serving to communities shelter migrants. Opposite to Trump’s claims, these are two separate pots of funds.

Trump and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline: Trump repeated his false declare that he “ended” Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gasoline pipeline to Germany. He didn’t finish the undertaking. In actuality, he signed sanctions associated to the pipeline into legislation about three years into his presidency, when the pipeline was already about 90% full, and the state-owned Russian firm behind the undertaking introduced in December 2020 that building was resuming.

Veterans Alternative: Trump revived one of many lies he informed most ceaselessly as president, falsely claiming he received the Veterans Alternative program accredited after others had “been making an attempt to do that for 48 years.” The Veterans Alternative program was really signed into legislation in 2014 by his predecessor, President Barack Obama. Trump signed a legislation in 2018, the VA MISSION Act, that expanded and modified this system established below Obama.

Who pays tariffs: Trump repeated his frequent false declare that, by means of tariffs, “China paid us a whole lot of billions of {dollars}.” US importers make the tariff funds, not China, and examine after examine has discovered that People bore the overwhelming majority of the price of Trump’s tariffs on China.

Earlier presidents and tariffs on China: Trump repeated his frequent false declare that no earlier president had imposed tariffs on Chinese language imports, saying, “No different president’s gotten 10 cents from China.” The US was really producing billions per yr in income from tariffs on Chinese language imports earlier than Trump took workplace; in truth, the US has had tariffs on Chinese language imports since 1789. Trump’s predecessor, Obama, imposed extra tariffs on Chinese language items.

Inflation: Trump blamed Harris for inflicting “the worst inflation in our lifetime, possibly the worst inflation we’ve ever had, as a result of I don’t assume they’re – I imply, I do know for a reality they’re not including all the numbers; in the event that they did, I believe it’s the worst inflation in all probability in our – the lifetime of the nation.”

Other than the declare about Harris’ function, it’s not true the US has had its worst inflation ever throughout the Biden administration or that the Bureau of Labor Statistics isn’t “including all the numbers”; Trump might pretty say that the US inflation price hit a 40-year excessive in June 2022, when it was 9.1%, however that was not near the all-time file of 23.7%, set in 1920. (And the speed has since plummeted. The latest obtainable inflation price on the time Trump spoke right here was 2.4% in September.)

The European Union and merchandise: Trump made a subjective declare that the “European Union is benefiting from us,” then repeated his false declare that “they don’t take our product.” Whereas the European Union definitely has some commerce obstacles that make it more durable for US firms to export merchandise there, it’s an enormous exaggeration to categorically declare “they don’t take our product.” The US exported greater than $639 billion price of whole items and providers to the European Union in 2023.

The commerce deficit with the European Union: Trump repeated one other false declare in regards to the European Union: “We have now a deficit with them of over $300 billion, consider that.” The US items and providers commerce deficit with the European Union was about $125 billion in 2023. Even counting items commerce alone and excluding providers, the 2023 deficit was about $201 billion.

The formation of the European Union: Trump revived a false declare from his presidency, asserting that the European Union was created to benefit from the US: “I imply, look, they united with the intention to benefit from the US. That’s why they united. That’s why they fashioned their coalition. And that was carried out to benefit from the US.”

Consultants on the EU informed “Time TV” throughout Trump’s presidency that there isn’t a foundation for such claims, noting that US presidents had persistently supported European integration efforts. “The President’s claims are preposterous,” Desmond Dinan, a public coverage professor at George Mason College who’s an professional within the historical past of European integration, mentioned throughout Trump’s presidency. “The European Communities (forerunner of the EU) have been fashioned within the Fifties as a part of a joint US-Western European plan to stabilize and safe Western Europe and promote prosperity, by the use of commerce liberalization and financial development, all through the shared transatlantic area.”