Trump told reporters that some of the individuals making up the migrant caravan on its way to the United States through Mexico from Honduras were potentially dangerous.
“Some of these people are hard criminals,” Trump said. “Hardened criminals — not good people.”
“These are some bad people coming through,” he added. “These aren’t babies, these aren’t little angels coming into our country.”
Then things got really interesting. When New York Times reporter Emily Cochrane sought elaboration on that statement from the commander in chief, he fired back.
In 2017, The Hill reported about the crime problem some illegal aliens present: “Criminal aliens, both legal and illegal, make up 27 percent of all federal prisoners. Yet non-citizens are only about nine percent of the nation’s adult population.”Reporter: "What evidence do you have that these are hardened criminals that are coming to the United States?"— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 20, 2018
Trump: "Oh, please. Please. Don't be a baby. OK?" pic.twitter.com/CpEewUIJwh
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“Thus, judging by the numbers in federal prisons alone, non-citizens commit federal crimes at three times the rate of citizens,” The Hill calculated.
And it just gets worse, based on a review of “the criminal histories of 55,322 aliens in federal or state prisons and local jails who ‘entered the country illegally.’
“Those illegal aliens were arrested 459,614 times, an average of 8.3 arrests per illegal alien, and committed almost 700,000 criminal offenses, an average of...
