Donald Trump has wildly claimed that “107 p.c” of latest jobs have been taken by unlawful immigrants.
Trump made the baseless declare at a city corridor occasion on Thursday night time in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, after a girl within the crowd informed him she was frightened about illegal immigrants “taking away alternatives from People”.
The Republican presidential nominee responded: “It’s going to start out with the Black inhabitants. African People are shedding their jobs. And I don’t know in the event you heard the most recent statistic, that of the roles that these folks created, which may be very little, each single job was taken – about 107 p.c – was taken by unlawful immigrants.
“There’s been no job creation by them, the roles had been stuffed by unlawful immigrants.”
His statistic – which doesn’t make mathematical sense and was not backed up by any proof – prompted the gang to boo and jeer on the made-up determine and he was not scrutinized additional by town hall host Tulsi Gabbard.
Trump then outlined his plans for tackling immigration. “We’re gonna be closing the border… actually closing it,” he stated, earlier than launching into one other assault on Kamala Harris, whose interview on CNN aired shortly after Trump’s town hall.
Republicans Against Trump shared the clip on X and stated: “Math isn’t Donald’s topic.”
The previous president beforehand stated the determine was 100%. “Just about 100% of the brand new jobs beneath Biden have additionally gone to unlawful aliens,” Trump stated again in June.
Greater than 15 million jobs have been created since January 2021 when President Joe Biden took workplace. And whereas the inhabitants of unauthorized immigrants has risen in recent years, it’s not sufficient to take all the jobs created throughout Biden’s presidency.
All through this presidential election marketing campaign, Trump has pitched his anti-immigration platform as a strategy to appeal to Black voters. He sparked outrage for claiming immigrants had been taking away “Black jobs” in the course of the CNN debate with Biden.
Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that his administration has carried out extra for Black staff than every other president, together with attaining the bottom Black unemployment fee and poverty fee whereas he was in workplace. However these file lows had been eclipsed by figures in the course of the Biden administration.
In a speech to the NAACP’s one hundred and fifteenth nationwide conference in Las Vegas on 17 July, Biden stated Trump is “mendacity like hell” about Black unemployment when that determine hit a “file low” whereas he was in workplace.
Whereas employment beneficial properties since 2018 have nearly fully come from staff who weren’t born within the US, they’re practically all naturalized US residents and authorized residents — not “illegals,” in accordance with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
He was eviscerated by Michelle Obama on the Democratic Nationwide Conference, who stated: “Who’s going to inform him that the job he’s presently in search of may simply be a kind of Black jobs?”
