During a fundraiser with billionaire donors, Donald Trump emphasized
that there are some immigrants that he can get behind that he can support
coming here to the United States.
Now, first, he went on a pretty lengthy rant about the current migrant crisis.
So let's start with that, and then we'll get back
to the specific migrants he's in favor of.
He said, quote, these are people coming in from prisons and jails.
They're coming in from just unbelievable places and countries,
countries that are a disaster.
They've been shipped in, brought in, deposited in our country.
And they're with us tonight.
Oh, they went to the billionaire like donor fundraiser.
But if they are from foreign countries and they offer them money,
Trump will take it. Yeah.
No, definitely.
Now of course they weren't at the fundraiser, but let me continue
with what he had to say.
In fact, I don't think they're on this island, but I know
they're on that island right there.
That's West Palm, Trump said, gesturing across the water,
according to the attendee.
Congratulations over there. But they'll be here eventually.
They'll be here now.
Trump stated that gang members make the Hells Angels
look extremely like extremely nice people.
And, you know, he tends to fearmonger about immigrants and migrants.
What doesn't help is that, unfortunately, there have been a few high profile
stories in the media recently involving some migrant gangs.
There have been some stories out of New York, for instance,
there was a group of squatters that were caught in a home in New York City,
and they had guns, all sorts of weapons.
Criminal history, like all of that stuff, unfortunately, is helping to drive some
of the narrative that Trump wants to put out there about immigrants in general.
But as we know, for the most part, immigrants are not proven
to be more violent or dangerous than American citizens are, and we should have
a better immigration system.
We do need to reform it, and we do need to have better control of our border.
But with that said, Trump is very clearly fear mongering here.
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I talked to someone who works, with the border,
without getting into too many details and deals with undocumented immigrants
all the time, over the weekend, and it was actually really, really informative.
I know all the stats and all the facts already, but to get his perspective
on who is coming over the border was really interesting, right?
Because I, as even the right wing, got even into my mind and I was like, so look,
I know that the great majority of the people coming over are families that are
in desperate situation, sometimes fleeing violence, mainly for economic reasons.
But I assume that like.
But are there bad guys crossing the border?
- Of course there are, especially. - If you don't have control of the border.
And so so I assume that maybe the bad guys were like 10%.
And I asked him and he's like, not even close. 10% seems high.
Yeah.
And he's like, that's a comically like, he didn't put it this way
because he's a very nice guy.
But comically high number. No, it's a tiny, tiny percentage.
There's a lot of ways for gang members and criminals to come into the country.
The overwhelming majority of the people that are coming in
are just regular families.
You could be upset about that, but that's a different issue.
Yes.
So when when Trump talks about how they're emptying the jails and the prisons
and sending them over here.
So it's not true on that alone. But think about it, guys.
There's an extra layer that a country like Mexico or he said, China in the past.
And rando countries are like, oh, we have a plan.
Let's take everybody in this jail, get them a plane ticket to Mexico, or if
they're already in Mexico, let's get them a bus and then release them at the border.
No, no, we should deposit them in the United States, as Trump worded it,
which is a funny way of wording it.
- Okay. - That is that's never happened.
That's not a thing.
There has never been a report of a country taking prisoners out of their prison
and purposely depositing them in America.
That's the kind of thing a lunatic conspiracy theorist would think.
It doesn't mean bad guys aren't getting in.
We have to prevent the bad guys from coming in.
But this kind of crazy talk about how everybody coming across the border
was sent from Mexican and Venezuelan and Chinese and Pakistani prisons
is lunatic stuff.
But I will say, I mean, Democrats also need to get their act together because
they're providing fodder for Donald Trump in fearmongering about migrants.
And this was the point I tried to make, but leftists lost their minds about it.
They can continue losing their minds about it.
But like this specific incident that I'm about to describe is what helps Donald
Trump push a narrative that fearmongers and honestly defames the vast majority
of migrants who came here.
So, again, most recently.
Six of eight migrant squatters arrested in New York City on drug and gun charges
have been released by two judges without posting bail, against the
discretion of local district attorneys.
Okay. And this happened right across a school.
And so, look, these are the high profile stories that conservatives latch on to,
to push that narrative.
And so maybe reconsider some of the local laws that allow
for some of this stuff to happen.
And absolutely, the Democratic Party, the Biden administration needs
to take more action at the border.
Yes, it's really up to Congress.
But the lack of activity in Congress in regard to immigration reform
didn't stop Donald Trump from taking action at the border.
So why is Biden using that excuse? Yeah.
It's ridiculous.
So we're going to get to whether Trump's comments were racist in a second.
But in terms of, this issue, look,
the main problem is the local loss.
And we've talked about that before. We're not prosecuting.
We moved some things from misdemeanor felonies to misdemeanors.
So we're not prosecuting them or putting bail on them for pretty significant crimes
like domestic assault and robberies, etc..
So but it really doesn't have to do with immigrants as a class,
because as we've told you many times, and you can look this up.
So natural born citizens unfortunately have.
- Higher crime rates. - Higher crime rates.
They do. It's just a fact.
Undocumented immigrants have half the crime rate, half the crime rate
of natural born citizens and documented immigrants like myself.
They came over legally, have a quarter of the crime rate of natural born Americans.
So we've got to get ourselves under control.
But the idea that the immigrants are more violent or more criminal on average,
is just flat out not true.
- Not close to true. - Exactly.
All right, now let's get back to some of the other comments Donald Trump made
about immigration, because he did specify that there are some immigrants that he
can get behind that he's supportive of.
He said, quote, and when I said, you know, why can't we allow people
to come from nice countries?
I'm trying to be nice, nice countries, you know, like Denmark, Switzerland.
Do we have any people coming from Denmark? How about Switzerland?
How about Norway? Trump?
The reason why that's not the case is because maybe, just maybe, the policies
in their countries are favorable to the policies implemented in our country.
And maybe they don't need to leave because they like the way
things are going in their country.
Yeah. I mean, let's talk about the two ironies.
First of all, he just named some of the most socialist countries in the world.
So socialism is terrible.
But how about the beautiful, nice countries like Norway and Sweden
who are socialists?
So I mean, they're mixed economies. Yeah, we are a mixed economy.
It's just that there are more privatized sectors of our economy
compared to what they have in Denmark, for instance, Norway, for instance.
Right. Yeah.
And so what does it mean to be socialist in that context?
Because the word socialism means nothing at all anymore,
because of how widely people use it for completely different contexts.
So in that context, it means a much stronger social safety net, right?
Like universal health care for everyone, paid family leave for like close to a year
and most of those countries, etc.
And we don't have that.
We're more backwards, uncivilized, barbaric.
So if somebody from northern Europe came here, they're like, wait, I can't
get a single day off if I have a baby and I minimum wage is abysmally low.
Well, they had they don't even need minimum wage in their countries
because they have such a strong safety net that we don't have universal health care.
So if I don't have insurance, I could just be left to die.
Like that's unthinkable for Northern Europe.
Yeah, right.
So that's why they're not coming from those nice countries.
It has nothing to do with race.
But of course, the knucklehead couldn't name one country that wasn't white.
And by the way, let me give you this insane data on Norway that should
infuriate everyone, because I think a lot of Americans have been tricked into
thinking that, look, we have lower taxes here in the United States, and I would
prefer that over the super high taxes in countries like, let's say, Norway.
Right?
They might have a more robust social safety net,
but their taxes are out of control.
We don't want to pay those taxes. Right.
Well let's go to graphic seven here.
Norwegian workers pay a roughly 25% income tax rate, a flat rate of 22%,
plus a personal income tax of 2 to 16%, depending on their income.
That's on par with what the average American family pays in income tax.
But in Norway, those taxes pay for generous social welfare programs
for almost all Norwegian residents, including migrant workers, by the way,
or those on temporary work permits and immigrants with legal resident status.
Norwegian social welfare encompasses comprehensive unemployment benefits,
retirement pay and health care coverage that covers just about everything
from mental health care to.
Ambulance and emergency services to clinical care for transgender residents.
So in other words, people from Norway are not interested in immigrating
to the United States.
I mean, there might be some, but overall, you're not seeing this wave
of Norwegian migrants coming to the US because things are doing like
they're doing pretty well over there.
And so one of the possible fixes for the migrant crisis
could be to help some of the countries that are struggling economically,
which is leading to migrants flowing into our country for economic opportunity.
But that is a long terme goal, long terme plan that would take a lot of work.
It would take resources, of course, and it should be part of a comprehensive
immigration reform policy.
And of course, the biggest difference there guys isn't the taxes.
It's what we spend the money on. Exactly.
They spend it on their own citizens.
Because by the way, here's another giant part of it.
They don't have money in politics.
So you can't just buy off all the politicians.
That's why they actually have a democracy. We don't even have a democracy.
The donors control everything in America.
That's why we don't spend our money on the citizens.
We spend our money on wars, defense contractors, drug companies,
bankers, subsidies for oil companies, all of our money.
- Foreign aid. - Foreign aid to do genocide in Israel.
ET cetera. ET cetera.
All of our money never goes comes back to us.
So that's why people hate taxes in America and in northern Europe.
They don't mind the taxes anywhere near as much as we do,
because it comes back to them in services.
That's what's supposed to happen in democracy.
Back to the race thing for one second. Just name Singapore.
Singapore, especially if you're a conservative.
It's kind of an ideal country, and it's clean and nice
and all the things that you want.
No, cannot name one single nonwhite country.
He just doesn't have it in him.
And and is he pro-immigrant from those countries?
Of course his wife is from one of those countries in a sense more Eastern Europe,
but from Slovenia.
So he's like, if you're white and especially if you're hot,
of course you're welcome in America.
But if you're from a nonwhite country, criminals and rapists.
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