IMMIGRATION/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Tuesday [1-16-18] released a report attempting to link immigrants to terrorism, presenting statistics showing that the vast majority of people convicted of international terrorism charges in the United States over the past 15 years were born in foreign countries.
The report came amid a politically charged push by the Trump administration to enact new restrictions on immigration, in part by arguing that the current system puts the country at risk. The 11-page report, parts of which were confusing and in some respects misleading, highlighted cases in which immigrants were linked to terrorism plots after being admitted to the country as part of the diversity visa lottery, or because they were related to American citizens or legal residents.
President Trump added to the confusion by writing on Twitter that the report ‘shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are foreign-born.’
The report actually concluded that three out of four individuals convicted of ‘international’ terrorism or terrorism-related charges were foreign-born.”
-Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Ron Nixon, “White House Fuels Immigration Debate With Terrorism Statistics,” The New York Times online, Jan. 16, 2018