By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-16 19:30:33 | Updated at 2024-11-16 21:42:19
2 hours ago
Pelosi’s flawed claim that Biden did better than Trump on the border
Washington Post via MSN ^ | Nov 13, 2024 | Glenn Kessler
Posted on 11/16/2024 11:29:54 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
In a post-election interview, Pelosi made this point when the interviewer challenged her on the impact of the surge of migrants across the southern border. Pelosi criticized Trump for saying the undocumented immigrants were criminals, saying “they weren’t, they weren’t.” The interviewer shot back that “people felt quite strongly that they didn’t want to see immigrants sleeping in police stations, at airports.”
“I don’t think we were clear enough by saying fewer people came in under President Joe Biden than came under Donald Trump,” Pelosi responded. “It’s clarity of the message, and if that’s what Bernie [Sanders] is talking about, and that’s what Joe Manchin’s talking about, we weren’t clear in our message as to what things are, then I agree with that.”
But Pelosi’s line was as clear as mud. It’s a documented fact that at least four times as many migrants entered the United States under Biden than under Trump........
The surge of migrants at the border was an albatross for Democrats in the 2024 election. Pelosi suggests that a clearer message might have made a difference. But her point is obscure and contradicted by the data. Removals of undocumented immigrants from the interior of the country fell under Biden.
With Cato’s data, Pelosi might have argued that Trump’s broad-brush roundup of undocumented immigrants led him to release more criminals in the United States than Biden. Given Trump’s constant mantra that Biden was letting criminals into the country, perhaps that would have been an effective counterargument.
But that’s not what Pelosi said. And what she said, even as revised, is wrong. She earns Four Pinocchios.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; deportations; illegals; pelosi
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With the Kommie and Biden open border there could be more deportations but still increased illegals, especially with Biden cross border flights.
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