Last night President Trump delivered a speech on the importance of border security. Everything he said was 100% factual, which left the anti-Trump liberal media scrambling to find something to complain about. CNN’s Jim Acosta suggested that Trump was lying when he called illegal immigrant criminals “criminals” but the NPR topped that insanity by “fact-checking” the President’s true statements, determining them to be false.
This is the craziest piece of fake news yet. The NPR fact-checked a variety of things that Trump said in speech last night, calling them false. It not surprising that that a lefty outlet would call him a liar, but what the NPR did was show that Trump was right and yet still somehow lying. Check this shit out:
Claim 1: Humanitarian and security crisis
“There is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our Southern border.”
Fact check: Illegal border crossings in the most recent fiscal year (ending in September 2018) were actually lower than in either 2016 or 2014 and much lower than at their peak around 2000. The number of unauthorized border crossers is also dwarfed by the number of people who overstay their visas. But there has been a spike in crossings in the past few months, topping 60,000 in both October and November.
A spike in crossings in the past few months means that the crisis is growing, right?
Claim 2: Driving down jobs and wages
“All Americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages.”
Fact check: The effect of illegal immigration on wages has been studied extensively, and conclusions vary quite a bit. Because of the underground nature of the problem, hard evidence can be hard to come by. Some evidence exists that because illegal immigrants tend to be low-skilled, they compete with native-born workers and can lower wages for those at the bottom of the income scale.
Illegal immigrants drive down wages, just like Trump said. Do these idiots have any idea what it means t fact-check something?
This next one is fairly astounding:
Claim 3: ICE arrests
“In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records including those charged [with] or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes and 4,000 violent killings. Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country.”
Fact check: The president is right about the total number of arrests of immigrants with criminal records that ICE has arrested over the past two years. But that number alone is misleading, because many of those of immigrants have very likely committed immigration-related offenses rather than violent crimes as the president is suggesting.
Wait. The President is right but his correct statistics are misleading? It takes some serious balls to write something like that in all seriousness.
Claim 4: Illegal drugs
“Our Southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs. … My administration has presented Congress with a detailed proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal gangs, drug smugglers and human traffickers. It’s a tremendous problem.”
Fact check: According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, most illegal drugs imported to the U.S. from Mexico are smuggled through legal ports of entry. Only a small fraction comes through parts of the border that would be covered by a wall.
Trump says drugs are coming across the border and the NPR counters by saying that drugs are coming across the border. Trump never said the drugs were coming across in places he wants to build a wall, just that they were coming in from Mexico. How is this a fact-check?
Claim 6: $5.7 billion request
“Law enforcement professionals have requested $5.7 billion for a physical barrier. At the request of Democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall. This barrier is absolutely critical to border security.”
Fact check: The administration’s latest request — presented to lawmakers over the weekend — seeks $5.7 billion for 234 miles of “new physical barrier,” which works out to about $24 million per mile.
Trumps says he asked for $5.7 billion and NPR says, “No, he actually asked for $5.7 billion.”
This is what Trump Derangement Syndrome does to journalistic standards and confirms my suspicion that liberals wouldn’t know a fact if it smacked ‘em in the face. NPR’s position is that everything President Trump said was 100% true, but because they dislike him he must be lying somehow.
