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Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2024-04-01): He also casts migrants — many of them women and children escaping poverty and violence — as "poisoning the blood" of America with drugs and disease and claimed some are "not people." Experts who study extremism warn against using dehumanizing language in describing migrants. There is no evidence that foreign governments are emptying their jails or mental asylums as Trump says. And while conservative news coverage has been dominated by several high-profile and heinous crimes allegedly committed by people in the country illegally, the latest FBI statistics show overall violent crime in the U.S. dropped again last year, continuing a downward trend after a pandemic-era spike. AP-NORC POLL: More Americans are worried about legal immigration than they were a few years ago Studies have also found that people living in the country illegally are far less likely than native-born Americans to have been arrested for violent, drug and property crimes. "Certainly the last several months have demonstrated a clear shift in political support," said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of the immigrant resettlement group Global Refuge and a former Obama administration and State Department official.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2024-09-10): A: Trump stated in September 2023 that if reelected, he intends to implement the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in American history, referencing a 1950s operation to deport undocumented immigrants under President Eisenhower known as "Operation Wetback." According to the New York Times, he would round up undocumented immigrants in mass migrant camps and employ a speedier way to deport them known as "expedited removal," though that could face legal challenges. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in March 2023, Trump said he would hire more officers and agents to carry out mass deportations. "Under my leadership, we will use all necessary state, local, federal and military resources to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history," he said. In his 2024 campaign Trump has promised mass deportations in his second term and has indicated that he could deploy the military as part of the effort. [...] Q: Should migrant families apprehended at the border be detained together or separately? [...] A: Trump signaled at a CNN town hall in 2023 that he could restore migrant family separations. "When you say to a family that if you come we’re going to break you up, they don’t come," Trump said.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2024-06-28): Trump accused Biden of allowing millions of unauthorized migrants to enter the country. He also said many falsehoods about the current state of immigration. [...] There is no doubt that some migrants who have crossed the border without authorization have committed crimes. This has been something Republicans have been hammering on recently, after two Venezuelan immigrants were charged with capital murder for killing a 12-year-old girl.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2023-12-17): Former President Donald Trump said immigrants coming to the U.S. are "poisoning the blood of our country," a remark on Saturday that quickly drew a rebuke from his chief Democratic rival as President Joe Biden’s campaign likened the words to those of Adolf Hitler. [...] Chris Christie, one of Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, called Trump’s remarks "disgusting" on CNN’s "State of the Union." [...] Trump has made criticizing the handling of America’s southern border a focal point of his campaign and frequently talks about the flow of immigrants into the U.S.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2023-11-21): During his first administration Trump promised and failed to deport every immigrant who was in the U.S. illegally. "Under the Trump administration, we will revoke the student visas of radical anti-American and antisemitic foreigners at our colleges and universities and we will send them straight back home," Trump said in Iowa Oct. 16. He said that he would institute "strong ideological screening of all migrants to the United States," to which he added, "If you want to abolish the state of Israel, you’re disqualified. If you support Hamas or the ideology behind Hamas, you’re disqualified. And if you’re a communist, Marxist or fascist, you are disqualified." [...] Immigrants who have been in U.S. for years, march to the White House Nov. 14, 2023, asking for work permits for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status programs in Washington. (AP)
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2018-09-09): Does America adapt by crisis or consensus? Do we spontaneously change because we see we must, or must we be coerced by events that leave us no choice? [...] It is also true that, on paper at least, some problems are amenable to compromise. Take immigration. The bargain that could be struck has long been clear: Most of today’s roughly 11 million "illegal" immigrants would be granted legal status; in return, border security (yes, including the dreaded "wall") would be strengthened, and legal immigration would be overhauled to emphasize skills, not family ties. [...] President Trump is the logical conclusion of these tendencies. With his tweets, he has devalued political discourse and aggressively divided, rather than unified, voters.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2001-10-25): In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. in 2001, opinion pieces expressing anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim viewpoints were rife on the internet, particularly one that eventually came to be attributed to Australia's then-prime minister Julia Gillard (and, much later, U.S. President Donald Trump): [...] Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT... I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.' [...] 'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2022-02-17): Immigration has played an even more divisive role in U.S. politics. About 15 percent of the U.S. population is immigrant, the same share as in 1920 but higher than it was for much of the post-World War II period.32 Roughly 75 percent of that immigrant population is estimated to be here legally.33 Of those here illegally, most overstayed with expired temporary visas rather than illegally crossed borders.34 About 45 percent of respondents told Pew shortly before the 2016 election that having more immigrants hurts American workers, while 42 percent said having more immigrants helps — the deepest division of opinion Pew captured on the issue over the last decade, caused by an increase in the number of respondents who react positively about immigration’s effects on American workers.35 [...] It can be tempting for the U.S. foreign policy community to throw up its hands in frustration in the face of this set of circumstances, but these challenges are not unprecedented in their magnitude, either at home or abroad. Blindly holding to the past is no longer viable. Change is coming too quickly. The United States must adapt to secure its interests and in ways that build domestic support. Three factors are particularly important to helping the nation navigate effectively in the current environment. [...] The United States must adapt to secure its interests and in ways that build domestic support.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2024-09-12): After they flee their home, asylum seekers must survive the extremely dangerous journey north, the path fraught with gang violence similar to the areas they are fleeing; gender-based violence targeting women, girls and the LGBTQ+ community; the risk of human trafficking of children, teens and women; and, for Black asylum seekers especially, racism and discrimination.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2024-09-20): Then, last week former President Donald Trump weighed in. "The small 4,000-person town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania — have you heard of it?" Trump said during a press conference in Arizona. "What a beautiful name, but it's not so beautiful now. It has experienced a 2,000% increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris. So, Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote." [...] Several Charleroi leaders and civic organizations have criticized Trump for his remarks. Kristin Hopkins-Calcek, the president of the Charleroi Borough Council, said Trump was exploiting the town for political gain. Just days before Trump’s remarks, Charleroi’s leaders learned that a glass factory known for making Pyrex dishware would close and move to Ohio. More than 300 jobs were in jeopardy after more than 100 years of production in town — the latest crushing blow to the local economy. [...] Marie Guerdy works as a cashier in the new grocery store in town, which sells a variety of brands and produce that are widely accessible in Haiti. Guerdy was a Kindergarten teacher in Haiti but moved with her family first to Mexico and then the United States when it became unsafe. Guerdy, who speaks Haitian-Creole, French and Spanish, rolled her eyes at Trump’s comments "He said whatever he wanted to say," she told WESA in Spanish. "But we don’t eat what he said we eat. I eat beef, goat, fish, yes. But dogs never. It is very disgusting for us to eat dogs and cats."
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2018-11-27): The data about migration, and about what crosses the U.S.-Mexico border illicitly, point to problems at the border. But they’re not the problems that the president is talking about. Instead, they point to a need to adapt our asylum system to a very different profile of U.S.-bound migration, and to build up our official border crossings—our ports of entry—instead of our walls and barriers. [...] It is very unusual to find migrants at the U.S.-Mexico or Mexico-Guatemala borders who are from "special interest" countries like the "Middle Easterners" that President Trump, offering no proof, speculated were embedded in the Honduran "migrant caravan." [...] Large-scale child and family migration, from Central America and perhaps from elsewhere, is going to be a constant in the unstable world of the 2010s and 2020s. Instead of raging against it, we must start adapting to it. Much of the solution to all of this lies in two neglected U.S. institutions: the immigration courts and the border ports of entry.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2024-09-19): These developments follow former President Donald Trump repeating debunked claims on national TV about Haitian migrants eating pets. Local city and police officials have said there’s no evidence of this happening. [...] He added that many longtime residents are concerned about newcomers’ ability to drive safely. Last August, a Haitian migrant driving without a valid license crashed with a school bus, resulting in the death of 11-year-old Aiden Clark.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2017-07-26): The early days of Donald Trump’s presidency have been an anxious time for many Muslim Americans, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Overall, Muslims in the United States perceive a lot of discrimination against their religious group, are leery of Trump and think their fellow Americans do not see Islam as part of mainstream U.S. society. [...] We have to take extra caution scanning our surroundings – know where we are, who is around and what kind of thoughts they might hold for Islam, about Islam or against Islam. Especially when the Muslim ban was introduced the first time around, I literally felt like the persecution had started. Because we had read the history of Europe and what happened to the Jewish people in Germany. These little steps lead to bigger issues later on. So, we really felt like we were threatened. And, fortunately, the justice system stopped implementation. And later on people stopped talking about it, and after a while it seemed like things might be getting better." – Immigrant Muslim man "I see some immigrants – and not just Muslims, they could be Latinos too – who don’t adapt well to their new country and don’t want to be part of American society. They stick with others like themselves because they’re afraid and feel strange here. But that’s not me. I am completely American, and I feel at home here. When I first came here, I went to high school and that helped me to become more fully American and to adapt to the culture.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2018-07-02): The current president hopes to turn back the clock, and make American great again by rebuilding low-margin businesses like coal and steel and limiting immigration to a trickle. That’s a losing strategy. We are in a brain-based economy, and he still thinks we’re in one based on brawn. We need to attract the world’s hardest working, most ambitious and smartest people. We want them to live and work here and become as American as they want to be. Some may never assimilate, sending money home and returning there themselves. Sometimes to attract the smart engineer, we will need to allow her to bring her less-talented brother, or her beloved mother. But even if immigration wasn’t critical to our economic well-being, the value of welcoming newcomers and diversity is central to our national identity. The comment you heard over and over again when children were separated from their guardians at the border was, "that is not us." "That’s not how America does things." The revulsion was instantaneous, non-partisan, and nonideological. That policy was an affront to America’s core values. Donald Trump is a masterful self-promoter, and a man of ambitious and relentless persistence. But the American character carries its own persistent core values. Taking children from their parents violated those core values. And even this president had to take heed.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2021-12-20): 'You Have to Adapt to Survive' [...] Viana spent the early months of the Trump presidency leading countless "Know Your Rights" workshops for immigrants. [...] "I’m not the only one out there with a crazy story; there are thousands of those stories playing out every day in America – especially with the DACA kids right now," he said. "But there are also people who have been here for 30 years, who have spouses and children, who own very successful businesses – and yet they don’t have legal status. It makes no sense.
Claim: President Donald Trump said, "Immigrants, not Americans, must adapt… Take it or leave it." (Viral Post, 2020-01-08)
Evidence (2017-03-22): Then, Trump won the presidency by promising voters that he would "Make America Great Again" by giving them back jobs and economic gains he claimed had been taken by external forces such as immigrants from Mexico. [...] "Suddenly, English, the greatest unifier in our nation’s history, has come under attack in our government, in our schools and in our courts," according to U.S. English Inc., a group that lobbies Congress to pass laws that would establish English as the nation’s official language. "The question is no longer what an immigrant can do for his/her adopted country, but how government can adapt to millions who have not assumed their duty to learn America’s language, customs, and culture." [...] Those who don’t speak English in America do so at their own peril. My firsthand observations of many immigrants, including my parents, is that they have plenty of incentives to learn English, would love to speak perfect English if they could, and would prefer not to have to face discrimination, ridicule, or poor treatment because they can’t communicate. I can’t count how many times I interpreted for my parents, relatives and random strangers while I was growing up.
Claim: Claims that 19th century writer Margaret Fuller once stated, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-22)
Evidence (2019-07-22): This saying does not appear in any of Fuller’s writings. It may actually come from a 1926 list of library slogans.
Claim: Claims that 19th century writer Margaret Fuller once stated, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-22)
Evidence (2012-10-29): READERS ARE LEADERS … LEADERS ARE READERS [...] The driver’s side of the van displays the project’s motto: Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. [...] There is much truth to Author W. Fusselman’s quote: "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
Claim: Claims that 19th century writer Margaret Fuller once stated, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-22)
Evidence (2022-03-17): Fuller is best known for writing the first American manifesto for women’s equality, Woman of the Nineteenth Century, published in 1845. It was forward-looking for any time, but especially in a time when women’s lives were confined to home, an era when colleges didn’t even admit women. It became an internationally known bestseller. [...] Margaret Fuller is not simply an accomplished nineteenth-century American figure who happened to be Unitarian. Contemporary scholars are increasingly putting her at the very heart of Transcendentalism, reconsidering her as a visionary who influenced the Unitarian movement and our message today far more than we have given her credit for. [...] Margaret Fuller is a towering pillar in the temple of American intellectual history. Although she once wrote there is "nowhere I worship less than in the places set apart for that purpose," or maybe even because of that, she is definitely one of us. Her intellectual legacy—which called for personal transformation and social justice, equality for all, democratic ideals and human rights—could not resonate more strongly with the UUA’s Seven Principles today. Her life, intensely lived each day of her forty years, a jarring and intoxicating fusion of brilliance and arrogance, compassion and vulnerability, still inspires readers to be full actors in our world, to change it for the better, and most of all, to grow. On her 200th birthday, let’s reclaim this Transcendentalist saint into the inner circle of the Unitarian pantheon.
Claim: Claims that 19th century writer Margaret Fuller once stated, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-22)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Margaret Fuller was a prominent American writer, feminist, and transcendentalist, known for her influential essays and her role in the early women's rights movement. She is best remembered for her groundbreaking work 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century,' which challenged traditional gender roles and advocated for women's intellectual and social equality. Fuller's ideas resonated within transcendentalist thought, connecting her to broader philosophical discussions of individualism and self-reliance. congrats on reading the definition of Margaret Fuller. now let's actually learn it.
Claim: Claims that 19th century writer Margaret Fuller once stated, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-22)
Evidence (2023-11-07): In 1845, fifty-two years later, an American woman, Margaret Fuller, also wrote to advocate the rights of women. Trying to soften her message somewhat, avoiding the political, she penned Woman in the Nineteenth Century. [...] Regarding Fuller's writing, she was aware of the obstacles she faced in printing Woman in the Nineteenth Century. While her work was received favorably by great writers (i.e. George Eliot—a woman, Edgar Allan Poe, etc.), the male members of the society she addressed were not as impressed. [...] Margaret Fuller was an 19th Century American advocate for women's rights; struggling to be heard in a male-dominated society, she was powerfully guided by an earnest conviction of the truth of Thomas Jefferson's sentiments when he wrote that "all men are created equal."
Claim: Claims that 19th century writer Margaret Fuller once stated, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-22)
Evidence (2018-05-02): The title of this post comes from a quote, a favorite of mine, by Margaret Fuller, the 19th century journalist and women’s rights advocate. By age 30 she was said to be the best read person in all of New England!
Claim: Claims that 19th century writer Margaret Fuller once stated, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-22)
Evidence (2024-04-29): Margaret Fuller: A Pioneer Advocate for Women’s Rights and Intellectual Freedom Margaret Fuller, a figure often overlooked in the rush to celebrate the famous suffragettes of the 19th century, was a formidable intellectual force who laid the groundwork for feminist movements through her assertive push for equality and her trailblazing achievements. [...] Born on May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, Fuller was an emblem of early feminist intellectuality. Gifted with a classical education that rivaled that of her male peers, she exhibited an unyielding spirit by securing access to the lauded Harvard Library — an institution closed to women at the time — a testament to her insatiable thirst for knowledge and commitment to improving her capacities. Her love of languages, including German, French, Italian, Greek, and Latin, coupled with a profound affection for French and German Romantic literature, positioned her at the cusp of contemporary intellectual debates.
Claim: Claims that 19th century writer Margaret Fuller once stated, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-22)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Biography: Margaret Fuller is best known for her book "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (1845), a major feminist work. Fuller was born in 1810 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father gave her a rigorous education from a young age. In 1839, she began holding discussion groups for women in Boston known as "Conversations." [...] References - Margaret Fuller - Poetry Foundation - Margaret Fuller - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Wreck of the Elizabeth - National Park Service