Links immigrants and refugees to crime and terrorism throughout RNC acceptance speech

In the same July 21, 2016 acceptance speech, Trump repeatedly portrayed immigrants and refugees—especially from Muslim-majority countries—as a primary source of crime and terror, echoing his campaign-launch rhetoric. Fact-checkers and contemporaneous coverage note that he cited a handful of high-profile murders and attacks by foreign-born suspects, then used them to argue that lax borders and refugee programs were flooding the country with dangerous people, ignoring data showing immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born citizens. He pledged to “suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism” and promised that, under his administration, American citizens would finally be protected from “illegal immigrants” and refugees, reinforcing a narrative in which outsiders and religious minorities were defined as inherent threats.

"We will suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place." — July 21, 2016 Republican National Convention acceptance speech passages highlighted by NBC, NPR, and fact-checkers, where Trump tied immigrants and refugees to crime and terrorism and promised broad suspensions of immigration from countries “compromised” by terror.