Trumps dramatic speech to the nation gefactcheckt: what is wrong, and what is not?

The American president Donald Trump gave last night his long-awaited speech to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House. In good nine minutes wanted to Trump the drama is not about what is, according to him, a “growing humanitarian and security crisis” is on the border with Mexico. But far from all of the claims true too.

Trump tried with his speech, which is live on all major tv channels was broadcast, the population to convince them of his demand for $ 5.7 billion extra in the budget to put the limes wall with Mexico. The Democrats showed themselves afterwards very little under the impression and point out the wrong claims that the president made.

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• “Today I speak to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis on our southern border”

is not Correct, write almost all the American media with the digits in the hand. There is certainly no “growing security crisis” at the border, on the contrary. The number of illegal immigrants from Mexico to the U.s. border trying to cross, it drops for almost twenty years in a row. In the year 2000 there were 1.6 million illegal migrants were arrested in the years that followed to continue to decline to 300,000 in the financial year 2017. In 2018 there was a new increase to 397.000. the

People without legal papers reside in the United States, are also very often in that situation because they are longer in the land than permitted under their entry visa. They come legally across the border. In 2017 there were so 606.926 cases listed, more than the double of the number of clandestine grensoversteken.

• “Every day, pack our grensagenten thousands of illegal immigrants in our country want to enter”

Also wrong: in the year 2018, there were around 30,000 illegal immigrants arrested at the border, or a thousand per day. Not “thousands”. The latest figures show an increase: in november, there were 51.856 people arrested, about 1,700 per day. Still not “thousands”.

What could be wrong, depending on how you interpret it, is that there is a “humanitarian crisis” is taking place at the border. Since 2014, the number of migrantenfamilies with children from countries like El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply: in 2016 came up 50 percent of the arrested migrants from those three countries, compared to 10 percent in 2010.

For the children there is not always a place in the shelters at the border. Last autumn, the were a lot of kids forced to separated from their parents, in the december death of two children from Guatemala in a shelter.