"Let’s get these people out of there,"There’s something wrong. They’re cuckoo."
Trump said Friday night that Democratic immigration policy is so bad that "anybody who votes for a Democrat now is crazy." Two years ago, Trump and his allies excoriated Hillary Clinton for saying she considered half his voters to be in a "basket of deplorables" — with some of the rally-goers here Friday night wearing clothes or holding signs referring to the "deplorables" remark.
Trump spun an argument around a claim that Democrats want to give benefits to undocumented immigrants to entice them to come to the country and vote for Democrats. "That’s why Democrats want to give illegal aliens free welfare, free health care and free education," Trump said. "Give them a driver's license, next thing you know, they’ll want to buy them a car. Then they’ll say the car’s not good enough — how about a Rolls Royce."
And, Trump said, "Democrats want to give illegal immigrants the right to vote."
No congressional Democratic leader has proposed allowing non-citizens to vote, though the majority of Democrats who voted on a House Republican resolution condemning the idea of enfranchising undocumented immigrants voted no.
Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal benefits under programs that would likely fall under the "welfare" umbrella — there's no longer a federal "welfare" program — and there has not been a serious push by Democrats to cover them.
“But a lot of money has been passing to people to come up and try and get to the border by Election Day, because they think that’s a negative for us. … They have lousy policy. The one thing, they stick together, but they wanted that caravan and there are those that say that caravan didn’t just happen. It didn’t just happen. A lot of reasons that caravan, 4,000 people.”
— Trump, at a campaign rally in Missoula, Mont. on Thursday
THE FACTS:
He lacks evidence.
A caravan of migrants is traveling north toward Mexico and the United States — and prompting alarm and false claims from Mr. Trump and Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida.
There is no evidence that George Soros, a billionaire and major Democratic donor, paid thousands of migrants to “storm.” Nor is there evidence that Democrats support the effort, as Mr. Trump has said.
The notion that refugees will leave their homes solely for a little cash is “crazy,” said Alex Mensing, a project coordinator with Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a transnational group that organized a migrant caravan that captured Mr. Trump’s attention last spring. (The group did not coordinate the caravan that is now traveling north, but has been organizing similar journeys for years.)
“You don’t have to pay people to try save their own lives,” Mr. Mensing said. “They are fleeing violence, death threats or economic violence.” ,p>There is similarly no evidence that Democrats “wanted that caravan.” Though Democrats (and many Republicans) oppose the Trump administration’s policy of separating families detained at the border, Democrats have supported legislation to improve border security.
Daniel Wessel, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, pointed to legislation proposed in the Senate that tries to “address the root causes of the Central American migrant crisis” by expanding refugee processing in other countries and targeting drug cartels.
“Trump has turned to fear mongering and conspiracy theories in order to push his anti-immigrant agenda,” Mr. Wessel said.
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