Youre looking at the county coliseum in the texas border city of el paso. The president will be speaking there shortly. And on the street tonight heading to a counter rally nearby, protesters, including former democratic congressman and possible president ial hopeful, beto orourke on the right side of your screen, marching to tell the president what they think of his border policy and statements like this, which are just plain wrong. The border city of el paso, texas, used to have extremely high rates of Violent Crime. One of the highest in the entire country and considered one of our nations most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building with a powerful barrier in place, el paso is one of the safest cities in our country. So, keeping them honest, thats not true. Full stop. El paso was and is one of americas safer cities, before and after the wall. Here are the facts, courtesy of the El Paso Times in figures they received from the fbi. Violent crime there peaking in 1993 and
Texas, used to have extremely high rates of Violent Crime. One of the highest in the entire country and considered one of our nations most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its build with a powerful barrier in place, el paso is one of the safest cities in our country. So keeping them honest, thats not true. El paso was and is one of americas safer cities, before and after the wall. Here are the facts, courtesy of the El Paso Times in figures they received from the fbi. Violent crime there peaking in 1993 and declining by more than a third by 2006. More fencing was completed in 2009 and a lot of crime went up right around there, 17 , and has bounced around at a fairly low level ever since. The numbers are consistent with other big cities over that period, Violent Crime going down dramatically in many instances and any president can get those numbers by picking up a phone acres local call. Any president at any time of day or night has access to more facts about more things than any