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Fact-Checking Trump

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The ‘fact’ trumpeted by Trump about how the fall in El Paso’s crime rate is caused by a border wall isn’t quite accurate. (HT my Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold [2])

Of course, a moment’s thought about Trump’s assertion should cleanse the mind of any risk of falling for it. Violent crime in, for example, Detroit [3] is higher than in El Paso despite Detroit being much further than is El Paso from the nearest non-walled part of the U.S.-Mexico border. This great distance is surely something of a formidable barrier to overcome for very poor non-Americans.

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