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Donald Trump claimed immigration, rather than the economy, is the top issue facing the US, despite all polling showing otherwise.
“I really believe that the border and the illegal immigration and 21 million people, many of them criminals, is a bigger thing than inflation,” Trump told voters in Atlanta during a Tuesday rally.
This claim comes despite several top polls, including recent surveys by Gallup and the Pew Research Center, indicating the economy is the No. 1 issue for voters.
“We don’t want them in this country,” he later added. “We’re getting them too fast. And I think it’s bigger than the economy.”
Several peer-reviewed studies have shown there is generally no evidence linking immigration to violent crime in the US, the Associated Press reports.
