Five Deported Mexican Immigrants Slam #BadHombre Lie from #realDonaldTrump Jorge Rivas - Fusion
go to original March 20, 2017

Moments after President Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign, he singled out Mexican immigrants by referring to them as “criminals, drug dealers, and rapists.”

During his final debate against Hillary Clinton in October 2016, Trump said, “we have some bad hombres here, and we’re going to get them out.”

Now as president, Trump has doubled down on that claim, again saying he’s deporting “bad hombres.”

“As we speak, we are removing gang members, drug dealers, and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our citizens. Bad ones are going out as I speak tonight and as I have promised,” Trump said in his speech to Congress earlier this month.

But data shows the claims that the Trump administration is only focusing on immigrants who have committed crimes may not be entirely true. In the administration’s first immigration raid conducted last month, about 75% of the estimated 680 immigrants detained were immigrants convicted of crimes. The administration did not offer additional details on the other immigrants who were detained.

“Trump uses us as scapegoats for his dirty politics,” Odilon Sanchez Duran, who was in the U.S. for 20 years before traveling back to Mexico to see his parents who were ill, told Fusion. He was deported this month when he attempted to cross back into the U.S.

“Maybe someday [Trump] will understand what he’s doing with these laws and regret it,” Sanchez Duran, 42, told me during an interview in Tijuana, Mexico.

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