How Trump credits an immigration chart for saving his life -- and what the chart is missing - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Trump regularly hammers Biden and Harris for allowing record-high numbers, often claiming without evidence that the figure is upwards of 30 million.
63% : U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., said he was aboard Trump's plane in April to hitch a ride from an Easter family holiday in Florida to campaign events in the Midwest.
60% : Trump asked Johnson to send it to his communications team, which changed the title, description and edited some of the annotations, to begin rolling it out that same day at an event with law enforcement officers in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
58% : While on the flight, Johnson showed Trump the chart, which depicts a dramatic increase in encounters with migrants at the southern border using statistics that are tallied by the U.S. Border Patrol.
51% : It shows what Trump had to deal with and how he successfully dealt with it," Johnson said in an interview.
50% : Here are more details about the chart and how Trump has used it along the campaign trail.
39% : Trump has said he could rely on like-minded governors to provide National Guard support to carry out deportations.
34% : The policies are intended to show Trump drove down border crossings during his term.
30% : The graphic incorrectly identifies the month Trump left office, marking it as if it had happened during the spring of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic prompted travel restrictions and vastly lowered the number of arrivals.
28% : At that event, Trump referred to people in the U.S. illegally who are suspected of committing crimes as "animals.
28% : "It's important to note and to point out how incorrect it actually is," he said, as he pointed out that border encounters had started to trend upwards in the months that followed and while Trump was still in office.
28% : Trump rarely talks about family separation.
26% : Last weekend, Trump claimed not to understand what Harris meant when she said he was responsible for taking children from their parents.
25% : "Trump also took the chart on his recent border visit to Arizona, displaying it on a piece of paper as he spoke from a podium below a desert hill.
24% : The chart notes policies Trump instituted such as "Remain in Mexico," a program that makes asylum seekers wait south of the border that Biden halted when he took office.
21% : Between 2017 and 2018, border agents separated children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border in a policy that was condemned globally as inhumane and one that Trump himself halted under pressure from his own party.
14% : The description of the chart says "Biden world record illegal immigrants, many from prisons and mental institutions," a claim Trump usually makes in rallies even though there is no evidence countries are sending their criminals or mentally ill across the border.
11% : The Harris campaign blames Trump for pressuring Republicans in Congress not to support a bipartisan border security package that Democrats say would have helped fix a broken immigration system.

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