Prisons are being emptied around the world to flood U.S. borders.
This claim is nothing but an echo of Trump’s well-known comment in his 2015 speech when he announced he decided to run for president. That’s when he stated that Mexico was “sending people with many issues, and they’re bringing those problems here.” Illegal immigration by Mexicans has fallen significantly, so now he has regrouped, stating that the entire world is sending criminals to the southern borders.
Sometimes he even riffs that it’s basically a cost-saving maneuver made by world leaders. But it’s not true, and for someone who came into the limelight in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Trump seems to be channeling Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s 1980 Mariel boatlift. Around 125,000 Cubans were allowed to flee to the United States in 1,700 boats. There was also a huge backlash when they discovered hundreds of refugees who had been released from jails and mental health facilities.
