Praises, Put-Downs, Polls and Fact Checks: 7 Reactions to Trump's First State of the Union

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Nick Gillespie

A demonstrator holds a sign to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven primarily Muslim countries from entering the United States during a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. February 4, 2017
A demonstrator holds a sign to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven primarily Muslim countries from entering the United States during a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. February 4, 2017 | (Photo: Reuters/Tom Mihalek)

Nick Gillespie, libertarian journalist and current editor-in-chief of Reason TV, which is connected to Reason Magazine, took issue with the immigration-crime link made by the president.

"Tonight, I am calling on Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminal gangs, to break into our country," stated Trump during the State of the Union.

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"We have proposed new legislation that will fix our immigration laws and support our ICE and Border Patrol agents — these are great people; these are great, great people — that work so hard in the midst of such danger so that this can never happen again."

Gillespie tweeted a link to a 2017 study by the DC-based group The Sentencing Project, which concluded that immigrants have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans.

"If you want to lower crime rates, allow MORE immigration," noted Gillespie in his Tuesday evening Twitter post.

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