Trump
Plan For 100K Anti-Illegal Immigration
Enforcement Force, Trump Denies
Fake
News Or White House Manipulation?
By Ben Shapiro
February 17, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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Wire"
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In yet another blow to the media’s credibility,
the Associated Press ran with a story on Friday
morning that the Trump administration had
circulated a draft memo that would delegate
100,000 National Guard members for rounding up
illegal immigrants.
Here’s the
AP report:
The Trump administration is considering a
proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000
National Guard troops to round up
unauthorized immigrants, including millions
living nowhere near the Mexico border,
according to a draft memo obtained by The
Associated Press. The 11-page document calls
for the unprecedented militarization of
immigration enforcement as far north as
Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New
Orleans, Louisiana….Governors in the 11
states would have a choice whether to have
their guard troops participate, according to
the memo, written by U.S. Homeland Security
Secretary John Kelly, a retired four-star
Marine general.
It’s worth noting that this was a draft memo,
according to the AP.
The report was quickly and strenuously denied
by multiple members of the administration:
But the Associated Press story openly states
that “requests to the White House and the
Department of Homeland Security for comment and
a status report on the proposal were not
answered.”
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So is the AP lying? Why didn’t the White
House just disown the proposal immediately upon
request for comment?
Nate Silver has a theory:
If the AP reported this story without
actually seeking comment, that’s fake news,
obviously. But if the White House is
manipulating the news – if the memo is real, and
if the AP sought comment and was denied – then
that’s egregious stuff. There’s no excuse for
going silent with the media simply in order to
castigate their credibility for issuing
factually true reports. No wonder nobody knows
what to believe anymore.
As far as the content of the memo, Trump went
back and forth on the notion of a deportation
force during the campaign. He’s been unclear on
how he plans to expand enforcement against
illegal immigration – just yesterday, he said he
would use “heart” to deal with so-called
DREAMers. This latest story just throws more
confusion on top of policy chaos.
