IF YOU’RE A U.S. PRESIDENT, YOU MUST TELL THE TRUTH

 

                                 …The former President became the “Liar-in-Chief.”

 

President Biden got it wrong, the fastest-growing population in the United States is not Hispanic!

 

Regardless of what party our presidents belong to, they have got to give the American public the truth. 

As an example, former President Trump said he had ordered Speaker Pelosi to get 10,000 National Guard troops for the January 6^th event in Washington.

That’s totally false.  He did mentioned 10,000 troops for a different subject, but it was anything but an order and he never said it to the Speaker.

The Trump supporters on Fox News had also repeated this Trump falsehood, as did the loud mouth GOP Rep, Jim Jordan.

But even our new President Joe Biden has to give us the same truth.  And he has been fact checked and has earned his own Pinocchio’s,

But it was nothing like the former “Liar-in -Chief.”

Just recently, President Biden said: “The vast majority of the people, the 11 million undocumented, they’re not Hispanics. They’re people who came on a visa, [were] able to buy a ticket to get on a plane and they didn’t go home. They didn’t come across the Rio Grande and swim.” This was president Biden in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee on Fed .

But the in a virtual meeting with the Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado, Biden said: “As you know, the fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic.  And 60% of the Hispanic population is Mexican American. They’re an integral part of our history.”

The point is that both of Bidens statements are not correct.

Here are the Facts:

The number of U.S. immigrants, nearly 45 million in 2018, has increased fourfold since 1965, when the United States replaced nationality-based migration quotas with a system based on work or family ties.

Biden has proposed legislation that would grant a path to citizenship to millions of undocumented residents, though any effort at overhauling U.S. immigration laws would be going uphill in a divided Congress narrowly controlled by Democrats.

“The vast majority of the people, the 11 million undocumented, they’re not Hispanics.”

Because of the uncertain nature of counting the undocumented population, no definitive estimates exist of how many reside in the United States or their racial or ethnic breakdown.

The widely accepted ballpark is between 10 million and 14 million. None of the available estimates supports Biden’s claim, and the best research indicates his statement is flat-out false.

The Pew Research Center estimated 10.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States as of 2017, a decline from a 2007 high point of 12.2 million. At 10.5 million, undocumented migrants would represent 23 %of all immigrants and 3.2% of the entire U.S. population in 2017, according to Pew.

“The decline in the unauthorized immigrant population is due largely to a fall in the number from Mexico. the single largest group of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.  Between 2007 and 2017, this group decreased by 2 million. Meanwhile, there was a rise in the number from Central America and Asia.”

The issue here is that Biden was speaking about the entire undocumented population accumulated over time. He didn’t limit his comments to the migration dynamics seen in recent years. When looking comprehensively across decades, border-crossings are still the top driver of undocumented migration, albeit by a hair.

Hispanics have been the second-fastest-growing demographic group, after Asian Americans, since around 2010, according to census figures.  The two groups had been growing at similar rates since 2000.

The Asian American population grew by 28.7 percent from 2010 to 2019, according to census data, while the Hispanic population came in second place, at 20% growth.

“Of those [migrants] who arrived before 2000, most came from Latin American countries, followed by Asian countries,” the U.S. Census Bureau said in a recent report predicting trends in population growth.  Since 2010, that trend has reversed with Asia replacing Latin America as the largest sending region of migrants to the United States.”

For the moment, Asians make up about one-quarter of the total immigrant population, whereas Mexicans and Latinos together represent about half of all immigrants inside the United States.

The Pinocchio Test

Biden messed up both of his claims, though it’s interesting to note that the falsities veered off in different directions. One minimized the share of Hispanics among the undocumented population, the other inflated Hispanics’ rate of growth.

Biden said the “vast majority” of the 11 million U.S. undocumented residents were not Hispanic. But reliable estimates show the vast majority of undocumented residents, about 75%, are in fact Hispanic.

Then Biden erroneously said Hispanics were the fastest-growing population group. They have been running in second place to Asian Americans since about 2010, and are projected to keep running behind Asians through 2060.

The White House says Biden misspoke and meant to reference education enrollment statistics, not population growth, but we didn’t get an explanation for Biden’s other error.

Some basic fact-checking would have saved the president from egg on his face, but instead he gets 3 Pinocchio’s, to Trump’s 4.

Copyright G. Ater 2021