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Azealia Banks Agrees with Trump Immigration Plan, But Does She Know What it Entails?

Yezmin Villarreal

<p>Yezmin always has a coffee in her hand. She's a writer from Phoenix, AZ, who is interested in the intersection of race, sex, and gender in pop culture.</p>

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Yezmin Villarreal

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September 09 2015 1:42 PM EST

November 08 2024 5:48 AM EST

Azealia Banks reached out to her fans through Instagram and asked them to discuss Donald Trump's immigration plan. Here's what she had to say:

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A photo posted by Azealia Banks (@azealiabanks) on
Sep 7, 2015 at 6:17am PDT

But what has Trump actually said about immigration?

On Mexican immigrants:

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

This point was refuted by the Washington Post:

Data on immigrants and crime are incomplete, but a range of studies show there is no evidence immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans. In fact, first-generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans.

Trump plans on deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, which would cost $114 billion dollars. But he says that would let the "really good ones" come back legally:

"And we’ll get people back in, the really good ones, we’re going to expedite it so they get back in, so they can at least come in legally."

Banks went back to her Instagram after people started tweeting her about her support for Trump and said that everyone "missed the point" of her message.