It has been apparent for more than a year that the Trump administration sought to use the power of the White House to push out negative stories linking immigrants to crime. Several other stories deal with immigrants in the country illegally, including one story about someone who overstayed a legal visa. So the “immigrant crime” email included two articles from The Post about MS-13 activity. As Trump himself argued on Long Island, MS-13’s criminal activity simply becomes “immigrant crime” that the American public needs to know about. In 2016 there were 1.2 million violent crimes, or 23,077 a week.

Source: Washington Post February 09, 2018 20:41 UTC