https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/10/fact-check-trump-california-migrant-invasion/
President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to California, saying the troops need to “liberate” Los Angeles from a “migrant invasion.” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, a key architect of the president’s immigration crackdown, said on social media that the city is proof of how migration “unravels” a society.
But federal and state data tell a far different story about the Golden State than the political fury unfolding in Washington and on the streets of Los Angeles, where the administration has sent 700 Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops as protests continue over recent immigration raids.
In California, violent crime is down, and the unemployment rate is close to the national average. The state recently overtook Japan as the world’s fourth-largest economy. It has the highest number of immigrants — both legal, most of them citizens, and undocumented. But in recent years, the state has lost hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to their homelands or to more-affordable states. Unauthorized immigrants in California remain well below the peak of nearly 3 million more than a decade ago for reasons that often have little to do with enforcement — or Trump.
“Even the surge that we’ve seen more recently in undocumented immigration, a lot of that has not come to California,” said Eric McGhee, policy director and senior fellow at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. “If I were to hazard a guess, it’s because California’s expensive.”
The liberal media reminds me of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf who, you'll recall, went on all the TV networks to declare that the American army was being slaughtered during the 2003 invasion even as American tanks rolled past him in the background.
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DeleteProf. Amatzia Baram, who in the late 80s made the unconventional suggestion that Israel should side with the Arabs especially Saddam Hussein in order to counter the Iranian threat. At time I was a student and thought he was crazy. But in fact his argument has proven true. The Arab world are threatened by Iran, and not Israel. Saddam could have stayed in power as a counter to Iran. There was even a plea from him to Israel to make peace and avoid the American invasion in 2003.
That was the stupidity of Bush II right there. Iraq was the counter-weight to Iran. The minute he took Iraq off the board, we suddenly got the rapid increase in Iranian hostility.
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