OUR "LYIN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF" CONTINUES TO LIE AS DOES HIS A.G.

…The way I tend to see our president

 

The 2012 DACA action was not the reason for an influx of minors from Central America.

 

I was really upset when I saw the statement from the A.G. Jeff Sessions and his accusations against President Obama and that what he said were the results of Obama’s DACA presidential order.  That was an order that the president turned to because the US Congress refused to do anything for the 800,000 young immigrants that were brought to the US, by no decision of their own.

 

Let’s look closely at the less than honest statement by both the A.G. and president Trump.

 

According to A.G. Sessions, he used what reporters call “weasel words” such as “among other things, contributed to , helped spur and partly”, words that always jump out at the nation’s fact checkers.  Sessions said the 2012 DACA action “contributed to the massive influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America that peaked in 2012”, and Trump’s subsequent statement echoed Sessions words.

Yes, there was a surge in unaccompanied children in 2014.  That was two years after DACA was announced. But DACA did not lead to that crisis or even contribute significantly to it. A bigger factor is that a 2008 anti-trafficking law signed by George W. Bush, as well as violence and the economic conditions in the countries that the children had fled, that was the reason for the surge. DACA may have helped foster a perception that Obama was lenient on illegal immigrants, but it is hard to draw any direct line.

 

The fact checkers at the Washington Post wavered between awarding Two and Three Pinocchio's for these statements, with Sessions’s statement more of a Two and Trump was leaning toward Three.  Since Trump is the president, his language is more important and thus he earned Three Pinocchio's to Sessions Two.

 

One of the criticism of Obama’s DACA was that it allowed unauthorized immigrants to exploit the system and gain US citizenship, despite Obama’s insistence that it did not offer such a path. In a news release on Sept. 1, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) had asserted that “preliminary data … indicate that the Obama administration allowed thousands of DACA recipients to exploit an immigration law loophole to obtain green cards.”

 

This is a complex issue, and the more you dig into the data, the more you realize that many news reports were misinterpreted in the Grassley news release.

Some bogus reports on Fox stated that Grassley’s data showed that 45,000 DACA recipients were using a “DACA backdoor” to obtain green cards. But when that data was crunched, it was found that the real number was likely under 3,000.  Please note that would be 3000 out of a total universe of 800,000 DACA recipients, or a whopping 0.375%.

 

Such a small percentage would not normally constitute a violation of Obama’s claim that DACA was not a path to citizenship.  Thus, there was not a Pinocchio rating on Obama’s statement.

 

But even though the Grassley news release referred to “thousands” which was technically correct, Grassley’s staff had a responsibility to set the number record straight about the incorrect news reporting.

 

Therefore, the Grassley staff is being given a “Pants-On-Fire” falsehood rating on a bogus 45,000 DACA number, which was 15 times the actual number of less than 3,000.

 

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