Fact Check 22: Who made these “racist” statements about border issues: Democrats or Republicans?
Fact Check 22: Who made these “racist” statements about border issues: Democrats or Republicans?
We're told anyone who supports Trump, particularly his policy of securing our border and expelling criminal illegal aliens, is a "racist" or a "white supremacist." Take this quiz to see if you agree.
Also see:
Contents
(1) The Quiz: Who made these “racist”/”white supremacist” statements about border issues?
(2) Backgrounder: Why I created this quiz, and my target audience
(1) The Quiz: Who made these “racist”/”white supremacist” statements about border issues?
We’ve been told over and over again that anyone who opposes the illegal entry of an estimated 13 million foreign nationals who’ve been allowed to flood over our southern border — including repeatedly-deported criminals — is a “racist” or a “white supremacist.”
In the final weeks of the 2024 election season, these accusations have taken on a fever pitch, and anyone who even attempts to challenge this prevailing doctrine is instantly smeared as a… you know.
Each of the following statements was made by a Democrat or a Republican, who served (or is still serving) as President, a U.S. Senator, or a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. I have only edited them for clarity and brevity.
See if you can guess who made each statement. The answers are linked at the end of each quote.
“When we use phrases like ‘undocumented workers,’ we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration, which the American people overwhelmingly oppose… People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.” (Answer)
“To have a situation where 40 percent of the babies born on Medicaid in California today are born of illegal immigrants creates a very real problem for the state which is in deficit … to have 17 percent of our prison population at a cost of $300 million a year be illegal immigrants who come here and commit felonies – that’s not what this nation is all about.” (Answer)
“When I see Mexican flags waved at pro-immigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration... This huge influx of mostly low-skill workers... threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net [welfare system]… There’s no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border.” (Answer)
“If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee a full access to all public and social services this society provides. And that’s a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born – at taxpayer expense – in county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?” (Answer)
“We will not allow our generosity to be abused by those who would break our laws, defy our rules, violate our borders, break into our country illegally. We won’t allow it.” (Answer)
“We will strengthen ICE, increase penalties for illegal entry and overstaying visas… We will also invoke the Alien Enemies Act to remove all known or suspected gang members, drug dealers, or cartel members from the United States.” (Answer)
“If they [illegal aliens] have committed a crime, deport them! No questions asked! You’re gone!” (Answer)
“We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.” (Answer)
“Our message absolutely is don’t send your children unaccompanied, on trains or through a bunch of smugglers. We don’t even know how many of these kids don’t make it, and may have been waylaid into sex trafficking or killed because they fell off a train. Do not send your children to the [U.S.] borders. If they do make it [to the U.S. border], they’ll get sent back.” (Answer)
“The biggest loophole drawing illegal aliens to our borders is the use of fraudulent or meritless asylum claims to gain entry into our great country. An alien simply crosses the border illegally, finds a Border Patrol agent, and using well-coached language — by lawyers and others that stand there trying to get fees or whatever they can get — they’re given a phrase to read.” (Answer)
“No nation can allow itself to be overwhelmed by uncontrolled masses of people rushing their border. That’s what’s happening.” (Answer)
“Simply put, if you enter the United States illegally, you are apprehended and immediately safely removed from our country. Without this core principle, there is no border, there is no law, there is no order.” (Answer)
“[The term] ‘broken borders,’that is an oxymoron, something we cannot tolerate. Borders, by their nature, are our definition as a nation and our protection as a country. Broken borders, they do not exist. We cannot tolerate them… [Our] obligation as elected officials is to keep the American people safe, and our borders are one of our early lines of defense to do that… [We] also support enforcing laws, current laws, against those who came here illegally and those who hire illegal immigrants; we also must have employer sanctions. Where are these people working? Why are we not enforcing the law against employers who hire illegal, undocumented people here?” (Answer)
“I support building a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in." (Answer)
“There are some areas that the federal government should not leave and should address and address strongly. One of these areas is the problem of illegal immigration. After years of neglect, this administration has taken a strong stand to stiffen the protection of our borders. We are increasing border controls by 50 percent. We are increasing inspections to prevent the hiring of illegal immigrants. And tonight, I announce I will sign an executive order to deny federal contracts to businesses that hire illegal immigrants. Let me be very clear about this: We are still a nation of immigrants; we should be proud of it. We should honor every legal immigrant here, working hard to become a new citizen. But we are also a nation of laws.” (Answer)
“While we need to address the issue of ‘undocumented people’ in our country, we certainly don’t want any more coming in.” (Answer)
“[Contained] within this giant flow of illegal migration to our southwest border is the movement of illicit and deadly narcotics. It’s in the southwest, most of it comes in. Nearly 100 percent of heroin in the United States enters through the southern border– think of that: 100 percent, almost, of heroin comes in through the southern border, along with roughly 90 percent of cocaine, and the majority of meth, and a substantial portion of the ultra-lethal fentanyl killing our youth.” (Answer)
“We have no choice. We will defend our borders, we will defend our country.” (Answer)
“We can’t have a situation where you just have half a million people pouring over the border.” (Answer)
"They [illegal alien children] should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who the responsible adults in their families are… [W]e have to send a clear message that just because your child gets across the border that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay.” (Answer)
(2) Backgrounder: Why I created this quiz, and my target audience
As I’ve said elsewhere, I am not now, nor have I ever been a Democrat or a Republican, or a Libertarian, or a member of any other political party.
I am a classic liberal — meaning, I’m off in the political wilderness.
It also means I am able to evaluate the statements others make about immigration, border control and law enforcement, according to a singular principle: that every nation has not just a right, but an obligation to ensure that anyone who is allowed to step foot on its soil poses neither a criminal nor a health threat to its citizens.
I find many of the things that President Trump says about border and immigration issues to be not just ugly, but counter-productive to advancing this principle. What I mean is, the ugly things he says — almost invariably without providing any evidence to back them up — makes it 1,000 times harder for serious defenders of America’s territorial sovereignty and rational immigration policies to engage in the arena of ideas, because the natural response from many is, “You sound just like Trump! He’s a racist/white supremacist/Hitler!!!”
With this understanding, I also know that Trump has said things that are patently obvious, based on irrefutable evidence, and eminently rational: such as the urgent need to provide CBP and ICE with all the support needed so they can efficiently:
Secure our borders
Administer our orderly immigration system
Screen out anyone who poses a threat to us
Apprehend and deport/prosecute any illegal alien who commits a crime on our soil
Trump is not alone in these matters. Until soon before President Obama left office, in 2017, many if not most top Democrats used the exact same words that Trump now uses (if not “worse” ones, depending on your point of view).
Yet these same Democrats — and the fanatical leftists that have taken over the DNC — now call the words they used, and anyone who now utters them, “racist,” white supremacist” or “xenophobic.”
The “Democrat-Media Complex” (h/t Andrew Breitbart) — the conglomeration of the Democratic Party, Hollywood, the “news” media, our “educational” system and a A-Z of “social justice” groups — now are not just at war against Trump. They are at war against the rational principles he’s articulated, with which the overwhelming majority of Americans agree. (Example: Did you know that 80% of Americans — and 83% of Hispanic Americans — were against “sanctuary cities” before Biden-Harris took office? Neither did most other Americans, because the “news” media all but refuses to report it, and the Republicans have failed to broadcast this basic fact, from the rooftops.)
My target market for this 2024 Fact Check report is the American people — across the board — regardless of their political orientation. My intent is to provide them with an opportunity to check their perceptions, and see which party’s statements, the Democrats’ or the Republicans’, they find most offensive, or out of line with reasonable thinking.
This quiz is not meant to be a comprehensive accounting of the totality of statements by members of each party.
I submit this quiz as one means by which to recognize the reality of this graphic, which I (and Elon Musk) believe is how insanely left the post-2016 Democratic Party has become, and the insidious way that America’s “news” organs have become the snarling enforcers of whatever doctrines are contained in the DNC’s internal memos — even if today’s doctrines contradict yesterday’s:
That’s why I created quiz. It is not a defense of Trump.
Its purpose is to demonstrate to fair-minded, reasonable Americans:
The fact that the Democrat-Media Complex has now abandoned its support of rational immigration and border control policies, in order to cater to the farthest fringe of the fanatical left that has taken over their party
The fact that there is now no bottom of the lying and incitement to which they will not stoop, to call people who use the words and terms that they themselves espoused, just a few years ago, “racists,” “fascists” and “white supremacists”
The fact that the Democratic Party’s 2024 nominee, Kamala Harris, openly accused employees of America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency — who risk their lives to locate and deport convicted criminal aliens — of being like the Ku Klux Klan
The fact that, as shown below, Harris also claimed “everyone is welcome” in America. Read my preceding report in this series, Fact Check 21: Examples of previously-deported criminal illegal aliens who were able to walk right back into America, and see you agree with her.
What I want is for the American people to walk into the voting booth on November 5th with a broader range of essential knowledge, so they can make more informed election decisions.
Previous 2024 Fact Check reports
Complete directory to 2024 Fact Check infographic reports
Subscribe
If you value the 2024 Fact Check infographic report series (previous reports listed below; see background and mission here), subscribe below to receive each new one via email until Election Day, and share this post on social media: