What do the facts of the issue matter? He got to put out his scary rise in numbers statement, and enough people will be outraged by the shock value in that that no amount of examining the actual issue or the facts about what's really happening will matter.
It's happening in this immigration thread, it's happening in the housing thread, it happens in all the government threads, it's happening in the two trans threads. The reality of the situation is irrelevant if you say your scary sounding statement enough times.