"Terrorism" in the News

Davis, Julie Hirschfeld, and Ron Nixon. "White House Fuels Immigration Debate

    with Terrorism Statistics." The New York Times, edited by New York Times

    Company, New York Times Company, 16 Jan. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/

    us/politics/trump-immigration-terror-convictions.html.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/us/politics/trump-immigration-terror-convictions.html Davis, Julie Hirschfeld, and Ron Nixon. "White House Fuels Immigration Debate with Terrorism Statistics." The New York Times, edited by New York Times Company, New York Times Company, 16 Jan. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/ us/politics/trump-immigration-terror-convictions.html.

     This report focuses on Trump's accusation of terrorism relating to immigration and how it was responded to by various individuals, including Kirstjen Nielsen. She said that Trump's report was "truly chilling data" due to the statistics about how a majority of terrorism is performed by foreign born people. This supports Trump's belief to regulate and heavily restrict immigration due to the risk it puts on the United States. The report was responded with criticism saying that this was only to influence the presidential debate back in November. Jerrold Nadler and Bennie Thompson both agreed that the content of this report was not exactly factual and only to get ahead in the votes.