Governor Shapiro talks about Kamala Harris' chances of winning Pennsylvania and responds to Trump's attacks on Haitians in the state, which Shapiro calls "utter --------."

#3 Yeas, Shapiro says it's basically a tie in the article I linked to above:

Sargent: Governor, as of today, the polling averages have Harris ahead 1.3 points in your state. That's incredibly close. What's your sense? As of now, is Harris leading in Pennsylvania, even if it's by an extremely slim margin, or is it functionally a tie?

Shapiro: I mean, look, it's probably functionally a tie. But hear me on this, because I think some context is really important. The last two presidential races, Greg, came down to 44,000 votes and 80,000 votes to put that in some context for your viewers and listeners. That's a point or less. So whether it's statistically a tie or it's one point, the reality is the races here come down to a few tens of thousands of votes. Now, I'd rather be us than them. Let me explain why. Let me offer a little bit of meat on the bone there to back up my statement. Kamala Harris is playing on his side of the field right now. She's showing up in rural communities and getting some really positive feedback. I'm seeing, anecdotally, more signs, more volunteers, more people willing to join the Harris campaign in the communities that are those swing areas or the swing counties. And while you got to pick up those last few yards and get in the end zone"and those last few yards are really tough here in Pennsylvania"I think we've got momentum and I'd rather be us than them in this battle.

Only an idiot would believe no criminals or rapist are getting into the US via Biden's border policies.

Anyone whitewashing these numbers deserves a lashing. The US can expect civil lawsuits.

The question is: when did they get in? Have some of them been here for years? How do these figures compare to numbers for other administrations?:

The data shows that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges. The data does not reveal how many of those criminals are recent arrivals.

For comparison, in August 2016, toward the end of the Obama administration, ICE said there were about 2.2 million noncitizens on the non-detained docket and about 368,574 were convicted criminals.

Here are some of the lies that Trump is telling about Charleroi, PA:

In an interview, Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning flatly said that Trump's claims are false or simply do not apply to his town in any sense. "There's what the former president is saying," Manning told me, "and then there's easily observable reality."

Trump's assertions about Haitians and Charleroi echo his many lies about Springfield. He portrayed Charleroi as absolutely overrun with migrants, as if it's succumbing to a foreign "invasion," a word he also used at the Pennsylvania rally.

"Not far from here, the 4,000-person town of Charleroi ... has seen a 2,000 percent increase in the population," Trump seethed at the rally, which was held in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He suggested that Charleroi has become a "totally different place."

But that's not close to true, according to Manning. He says the town's population of Haitians is actually "between 700 and 800." Manning pointed out that if Trump's claim were true"and this town of just over 4,000 had seen a 2,000 percent increase"it would suddenly have a population closer to 100,000. Recounting this idea to me, Manning burst out laughing.

At his rally, Trump also ramped up the zero-sum rhetoric about immigrants taking American jobs. "Another front in Kamala's war on workers is her gigantic migrant invasion," he said.

Trump even embellished this with an elaborate tale in which Harris is chief engineer behind a project to "inundate Pennsylvania communities." He held up Charleroi as an example of this throughout, telegraphing his closing argument in this must-win state.

But this rhetoric simply doesn't apply to Charleroi, Manning said. He noted that many of the Haitians work at a local packaging plant whose owner could not find workers, and went to an employment agency for help. That agency got Haitians to come work in the borough"in other words, locals, and not Harris, enticed them there"and they liked the place, Manning said, so they "put down roots."

The key tell here, Manning pointed out, is that even now, with the Haitians already in the town, the packaging plant owner is still looking for workers.

"They ain't taking anybody's jobs," Manning said, noting that they are helping revitalize the town, just as immigrants are reviving other Rust Belt towns amid postindustrial population decline. "They have occupied places that were vacant for years because a lot of people moved out of here," he noted.

What about Trump's claim that towns across Pennsylvania are being swamped by job-stealing immigrants? Well, the state's unemployment rate is 3.4 percent, so it's unclear how this represents a "war on workers," as Trump says. As Paul Krugman explains, immigrants often boost employment for the native-born in such communities, because they spend money in them. As for Trump's suggestion that immigrants are unleashing a crime wave in the state, asked whether there's been any uptick in crime in Charleroi, Manning bluntly replied: "No."

Anyone whitewashing these numbers deserves a lashing. The US can expect civil lawsuits.
662,566 non-detainers with criminal backgrounds.
435,719 convicted criminals
226,847 with pending criminal trials.

How about people who are blackwashing these numbers? What should happen to them? Here's what the letter actually says:

Your letter requests the number of noncitizens on ICE's docket convicted or charged with
a crime. As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE's
national docket, which includes those detained by ICE, and on the agency's non-detained docket.
Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.

So, no, it does not say "662,566 non-detainers with criminal backgrounds." It says: "there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE's national docket, which includes those detained by ICE, and on the agency's non-detained docket."

And again as I pointed out earlier, the letter does not say when those noncitizens crossed the board or how long they've been in this country:

On 27 September, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released figures showing it had recorded 662,566 "noncitizens with criminal histories" - which includes those currently detained by the agency and those not detained.

It says 435,719 of them are convicted criminals and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.

The figures go up to July 2024 but ICE does not say when the cases date back to or when these people arrived in the US.

The data shows that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges. The data does not reveal how many of those criminals are recent arrivals.

For comparison, in August 2016, toward the end of the Obama administration, ICE said there were about 2.2 million noncitizens on the non-detained docket and about 368,574 were convicted criminals.

I did find out how many non-detained immigrants there were at the end of 2020, but I can't find any stats on how many of them were convicted criminals, although it stands to reason some must have been just as some were in 2016 and 2024:

Additionally, beyond managing ICE's detained population, ICE ERO also manages nondetained cases. In FY 2020, the number of aliens on ICE ERO's non-detained national docket remained consistent with FY 2019 at 3.26 million cases.

Greatest crime story ever.
#8 | Posted by oneironaut

Nope. One of the biggest whoppers Trump/GOP has told:

Fact check: To attack Harris, Trump falsely describes new stats on immigrants and homicide

"I did find out how many non-detained immigrants there were at the end of 2020, but I can't find any stats on how many of them were convicted criminals"

CNN couldn't find them either. I wonder if the Trump administration had them deep sixed somehow?:

CNN could not immediately find public statistics on how many people with criminal convictions were on the non-detained docket during Trump's presidency. But there are public statistics from just before and just after his presidency--and those statistics, which we'll discuss later in this article, make clear that Trump, too, presided over a non-detained docket that included hundreds of thousands of people with criminal convictions.