https://www.factcheck.org/2019/01/misleading-border-crime-statistic/
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Amazing how much the trump administration makes up.
U.S. Border Patrol encountered 6,259 immigrants with criminal convictions, many of them for illegal entry charges, in fiscal 2018, according to the most recent statistics. Yet, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney misleadingly claimed authorities “had arrested 17,000 criminals at the southern border.”
President Donald Trump, too, included this figure in a letter he sent to Congress on Jan. 4, saying “17,000 adults at the border with existing criminal records were arrested” last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. The White House, and Mulvaney, used the figure to argue for the necessity of a border wall. But the figure includes more than 10,000 people who were stopped while trying to lawfully enter the country at legal ports of entry throughout the U.S., according to statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection .
Mulvaney made his claim on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Jan. 6, saying it was “frustrating” that the administration and Democrats in Congress “can’t even agree on the basic facts.” But the administration is spinning these numbers.
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