Bill Clinton Shares Stats on Mexico Immigration with 'Daily Show' Host Jon Stewart Jon Greenberg - PolitiFact
go to original June 23, 2015

Bill Clinton: Zero net migration from Mexico since 2010 (The Daily Show/StuPow)

Among the more inflammatory words out of Donald Trump’s mouth during his kick-off speech were the ones about Mexico.

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best," Trump said as he announced his White House bid. "They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems (to) us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

That last phrase hardly counterbalanced the rest. Mexican officials took serious offense. The interior minister said the charge was absurd and prejudiced, and that it served only to generate controversy.

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart had a go at Trump with former President Bill Clinton on June 17, 2015.

Clinton: "What he said about the Mexicans, which was …"

Stewart: "Bizarre."

Clinton: "Not only that, just wrong. Basically between 2010 and 2014, there was no net in-migration from Mexico. That surprise you all?  All we read about is the violence and the drug war. The truth is that the previous president built 140 tuition free universities. Two years ago, the Mexicans produced 113,000 engineers. We produced 120,000. They’ve had very brisk growth, and except in the narco-centers, the crime rate, the murder rate has gone down. It’s a very interesting country."

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Related: Donald Trump Wants a Border Wall. These Statistics Show Mexico Is a Step Ahead of Him (The Washington Post)

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