The Trump administration has repeatedly made this claim, but the data isn’t clear. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
President Trump has a new favorite anecdote, one that fixates on tape.
Specifically, in public remarks at the White House, at the border and at farming conventions, the president has been talking about tape on the mouths of migrant women. On at least eight occasions over a period of 12 days this month, the president has argued publicly for his proposed wall on the southern border by claiming without evidence that traffickers tie up and silence women with tape before illegally driving them through the desert from Mexico to the United States in the backs of cars and windowless vans.
In Trump’s telling, the adhesive is sometimes blue tape. Other times it is electrical tape or duct tape.
View the complete January 17 article by Katie Mettler on The Washington Post website here.