Posted on 08/30/2019 6:23:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CLAIM: President Donald Trump is ending “a policy that allows migrants to not be deported while they or their family members receive life-saving medical treatments.” VERDICT: False. There was never any such policy, and all the Trump administration is doing is moving discretion over individual cases from USCIS to ICE. The media were abuzz Wednesday and Thursday with claims, such as the one quoted from The Hill, above, that Trump is so hell-bent on deporting people that he is even “deporting kids with cancer,” as Vanity Fair put it (adding that Trump was once again living down to comparisons to Adolf Hitler).
Former vice president Joe Biden seized on the news, and added it to his stump speech. He declared, for example, on Thursday night in Greenville, South Carolina:
In just the last few days, we’ve learned his newest target is children. I thought we’d hit the bottom. No! … He decided to take away automatic citizenship from the children of our military serving overseas. … Like every bully in history, he’s trying to make himself seem stronger by picking on the most vulnerable … I thought even he would understand that kids suffering from cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other diseases they can’t get treatment for in their countries were off limits. But like so many other things he’s said, cruelty seems to be the point. … They all have to be unplugged and gone. Ladies and gentlemen — Neuroblastoma! — I can’t imagine, if I had been an immigrant, my son Beau, when he came home from the war, and he ended up having stage 4 glioblastoma … and them telling me, “No, unplug him, send him home.” That’s what it is! That’s what he’s doing! And it’s immoral, and it’s wrong!
Everything about that statement is false.
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It is far past time that the media be held legally and financially liable for their outright and intentional lies. As far as they are concerned, all Amendments can have limits and interpretations — except the 1st Amendment. And, then only the freedom of the press part must be sacrosanct. They need to be held accountable.
Uncle Joe is losing it, big time. He should have had competent staff to fact-check things he was going to say, but obviously he’s decided to become a “Loose cannon ex-VP” who thinks he’s still in office, somewhere.
He’s destroying himself. Way beyond a “gaffe machine”. he’s now a “walking narcisstic mental case” and loving it.
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