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Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted out a link to this laughable "MYTH/FACT" release from DHS tonight. This is their response to the actual facts coming out and shredding their propaganda:
Link to tweet
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/01/07/mythfact-known-and-suspected-terroristsspecial-interest-aliens
All Americans SHOULD agree that even one lie about security concerns by the Trump admin is one too many.
Unfortunately, there are deplorables who don't care about the lying.
But most Americans do.
And it's so pathetic to try this BS now: "the exact number is sensitive..."
Found this DHS release thanks to tweets from Molly O'Toole of the LA Times.
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)I can do it on two hands. Maybe tRump's hands are too small for him to count up to 6 with those little stubby fingers.
Nicole Wallace on MSNBC today said that the real number of legitimate terrorists is 6 (really). She laughed over this for a long time during her show this afternoon.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/only-six-immigrants-terrorism-database-stopped-cbp-southern-border-first-n955861
RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)The Sept. 11 suspects all entered the US - repeatedly - by air, with passports, and on tourism and education visas...
Thinking that any actually dangerous terror suspect who was a foreign national (as opposed to Americans or lawful residents radicalized here in the US) would attempt to enter the US overland from Mexico makes about as much sense as suggesting the same individual would try swimming to the US from the eastern hemisphere.
If the Trump Administration wants to reduce the number of asylum seekers applying for refuge in the US, than go to Congress and change our own laws and request withdrawal from the international asylum treaties. The fact they are unwilling to do so, just demonstrates what cowards Trump et al actually all ...
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)Instead they will chant, "Build the wall" like the good little sheep they have been groomed to be.
RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)One can hope.
underpants
(182,883 posts)On June 1, Dodson used $2,500 in ATF funds to purchase six AK Draco pistols from local gun dealers, and gave these to Fernandez, who reimbursed him and gave him $700 for his efforts. Two days later, according to case records, Dodsonwho would later testify that in his previous experience, if even one [gun] got away from us, nobody went home until we found itleft on a scheduled vacation without interdicting the guns. That day, Voth wrote to remind him that money collected as evidence needed to be vouchered within five days. Dodson e-mailed back, his sarcasm fully restored: Do the orders define a day? Is it; a calendar day? A business day or work day
.? An Earth day (because a day on Venus takes 243 Earth days which would mean that I have plenty of time)?
http://fortune.com/2012/06/27/the-truth-about-the-fast-and-furious-scandal/
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)and quarter these people.
underpants
(182,883 posts)Or put the entire operation at risk by showing up at a official border crossings and applying for asylum?
Didn't think of that did you? They'll never see them coming I tell ya.
RockRaven
(15,003 posts)and just as BS.
"... even one terrorist reaching our borders is one too many."
HELLO? *reaching* our borders? If that is the target, we don't need a damn border wall, we need stuff OUTSIDE and BEFORE the border. In fact, if that is the standard, we need absolutely nothing ON or INSIDE the border because we're gonna stop all those terrorists before they even get there. The wall is a total waste of resources and a distraction if this is your standard. Get your f--king argument right, morons!
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Gawd, these Republican asshats argue in circles of gish-galloping goo.
Takket
(21,629 posts)Aka drumpf voters. They are killing Americans left and right. of course when a magat does it it is not terrorism. It is a murder and no one asks where he was radicalized or got his armory but hey he saw a psychiatrist once!!!
Look at the numbers of domestic terrorism that have taken place regularly over the past several years. What have the reThugs done about that? It should be a major media talking point with every story about a wall.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Being caught in outright lies makes most people uncomfortable. Having to defend misplaced priorities also does. Having zero credibility should also.
Dont worry Kirstjen. Children dying in your custody doesnt bother you. Youll get over this.
These numbers should be demanded before she appears before the house. She can give the numbers in closed session and we can just be told she is a liar.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)We must be a bunch of wimps, according to MF45 and his lying minions.