Media Talking Points Crash Into Immigration Realities
Migrant vetting, Venezuelan gangs, and the declining “labor participation rate”
By Andrew R. Arthur on October 16, 2024
As the Republic races—on trembling knees—toward the finish line of a presidential election unlike any other, a number of media talking points are running headlong into immigration realities. The “silly season” of politics is now over with the race heating up, as the facts are laid bare.
Bill Clinton Goes Off Script
One of the most dubious claims advanced by DHS over the past three-plus years is that it is capable of vetting the tens of thousands of illegal migrants it is releasing—in violation of the law—into the United States monthly.
That assertion is so utterly dubious as to be laughable, and yet it has been accepted wisdom for most in a gullible media establishment that essentially ignored a June 2024 report by the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) that debunked it with respect to “asylum seekers”, to say nothing of various reports from the House Judiciary Committee that undermine its fundamental premise.
And then, former President Bill Clinton went off script.
Speaking as a surrogate for the Harris-Walz campaign at a fish fry in Peach County, Ga., on October 13, Clinton attempted to attack Donald Trump for scuttling a “bipartisan” Senate border bill in the late winter and early spring:
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