The following article by Salvador Rizzo was posted on the Washington Post website February 8, 2018:
President Trump says the United States is moving gang members out of the country “by the thousands,” but current records suggest otherwise. (Meg Kelly, Claritza Jimenez/The Washington Post)
“We have sent thousands and thousands of MS-13 horrible people out of this country or into our prisons.”
— President Trump, State of the Union address, Jan. 30, 2018
“This is after, actually, removing thousands of them out — some into the prisons — but literally thousands of people are removed out.”
— Trump, discussing MS-13 during a roundtable at the White House, Feb. 6, 2018
This is a new twist on Trump’s well-worn claim that his administration is deporting thousands of members of the violent MS-13 gang. We gave the president Two Pinocchios in June because MS-13 removals were in the hundreds, not the thousands, under his watch. Continue reading “President Trump’s claim that ‘thousands and thousands’ of MS-13 members are off the streets”