How true Trumps are statements?

Donald Trump has established in his speech "on The situation of the Nation," his call for a wall was built with large problems due to illegal migrants. The U.S. President holds the Migration for an emergency situation for the country as a whole.

statement: El Paso (Texas) was one of the most dangerous cities in the United States. According to the border security was one of the safest cities.

rating: False

facts: , The crime rate in El Paso has reached its peak in the 1990s, and fell until 2006. With the construction of the border security measures was started in 2008. Since then, there was again an increase, reported local media, citing FBI data. The station KTSM does not quote the Sheriff of El Paso with the words: "I believe that anybody, not even the President, can say that a wall in El Paso was what caused the crime rate to fall," said Sheriff Richard Wiles

statement: "tens of thousands of innocent Americans to die by lethal drugs crossing our border and in our cities and flooding – including Crystal Meth, Heroin, cocaine, and Fentanyl."

rating: Misleading

"I the wall get built": Donald Trump insists his election promise to implement. (5. February 2019) Video: Reuters

facts: is The largest drug problem in the United States prevails in the case of prescription opioids, and people come over to your doctor first of all, totally legal in the tablets. Illegal drugs, in fact, mainly over the southern border into the country – but not on the "green border". They are smuggled mainly through the border crossings. "A small percentage of the total heroin, which was ensured by the border authority, was the transitions between the border", it says in the official US drug report. The painkiller Fentanyl is sent according to the report, either directly by Post from China, or through border crossings from Mexico smuggled.

statement: "Every year, are murdered countless Americans from criminal illegal immigrants."

rating: Questionable

facts: Several studies have come to the opinion that the risk to be in the USA, murdered, emanating mainly from Locals. "Migrants tend to have less crime than the Locals" found out, not least, the Cato Institute. However, it actually comes to crimes from people who are illegally immigrated. For the families of Victims, it is no consolation that this is a minority.

statement: "The Migration across the U.S. southern border has grown to a crisis of national proportions."

rating: is Hardly tenable.

facts: The "Migration Policy Institute" about indicates that the number of arrests at the border in the long-term tendency to decline. In the financial year 2000 there was a total of 1.6 million arrests on the southwest border, in 2010, there were approximately 448'000. In the budget year 2018, the authorities have recorded approximately 397'000, such as from Overviews of the customs and border protection CBP.

economy

statement: "The Americans can be proud of the fact that more women than ever are gainfully employed."

rating: Wrong.

facts: The number of Working – women and men – depends on the Size of the population. This is steadily increasing. The percentage of women who work or are looking for is increased, since 2015. Today, he is, according to "PolitiFact" at 57.5 percent. This is lower than in the period between 1995 and the Great recession of 2009, when between 59 and 60 per cent of the workforce were women. The number of employed women declined in the last two months slightly, from 73.9 million in December 2018 to 73.6 million in January 2019.

statement: "workers' wages are growing faster, than you would have thought possible."

rating: True.

facts: The wages for the Trump in the election campaign had promised to use, have risen, according to the U.S. Department of labor faster than wages in service occupations.

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Created: 06.02.2019, 08:11 PM