Border towns are "safer than any city where Trump lived," says Texas congressman

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) torn into President Donald Trump's false narrative that US border towns are borderless without laws, saying they are "safer than any city in which the president has ever lived" ".

Border City of McAllen, In Gonzalez District, Texas (145,000), no homicides were committed last year, a member of Congress said in an interview with MSNBC Saturday

"The reality is that McAllen is one of the safest cities in America," Gonzalez said. I said. "In fact, we are the seventh safest city in America. We did not have any murders in 2018 ".

He adds, "I can assure you that McAllen is safer than any city in which the president has ever lived. It's a lot safer than New York, it's a lot safer than Washington, DC I could walk in the middle of the night in the city of McAllen without a single threat … This campaign rhetoric that is continues for two years must really stop. People need to examine the statistics and the reality of the FBI. "

Gonzalez encouraged Trump to visit high-crime cities, naming Detroit and Little Rock, and to" make efforts to … reduce crime rates in areas that really need them "."

A major crime report published in the Texas Monthly magazine in 2015 considered border towns in the Rio Grande Valley as "extremely safe." Frontier counties, regardless of population, have high rates of return. homicides, violent crimes and crimes against property less cross-border counties in the nation, according to FBI crime statistics for 2017.

Gonzalez said that "Trump's rhetoric is based on the assumption that It feeds its right base that seems to devour it. "

comments are part of a rising wave of criticism of the Trump administration along the US border. angry residents dissatisfied with the fact that the president called their cities dangerous.

In his State of the Union address, Trump called El Paso, Texas, one of the "most dangerous" cities in the country – until the construction of a barrier border. El Paso is actually one of the safest cities in the United States for three decades, according to crime statistics. The border fence was built in 2008. The sheriff of El Paso County, Richard Wiles, called Trump's statements of "falsity" that he uses to "try to build a wall of 3,000 kilometers ".

Paso Monday. Beto O'Rourke, a former Democratic congressman from his hometown, and the Trump baby airship are scheduled for the same period.

Check out Gonzalez's interview in the clip above. He talks about the security of the border towns at: 47 and Trump living in much more dangerous cities at 3 o'clock.