Little-Acorn
Gold Member
One day after Donald Trump read the riot act to the fakers and liars in the news media, they have responded with more misleading Fake News.
Every administration of nearly every country always puts together contingency plans in case they are ever needed, from invading their neighbors to declaring martial law to rounding up lawbreakers. Some unnamed staff put them together and stick them in file cabinets, and never look at them again.
But here we have some government source pulling such a form out of the cabinet again and leaking it to the sycophantic press , who immediately writes a misleading article as though the President himself was actively considering doing it. And using alarming phrases such as "mobilizing", "unprecedented", "millions", "militarization" etc. It's a classic example of Fake News.
The one is about using 100,000 National Guard troops to supposedly "round up" illegal aliens in many states. If it hadn't been that, it would have been something else, maybe a plan to invade Iran or something (I'm sure the govt has had that plan in their files for years too).
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AP Exclusive: DHS weighed Nat Guard for immigration roundups
AP Exclusive: DHS weighed Nat Guard for immigration roundups
Feb. 17, 2017
GARANCE BURKE,
Associated Press
The Trump administration considered 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.
Staffers in the Department of Homeland Security said the proposal had been discussed as recently as Friday.
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.
Four states that border on Mexico were included in the proposal — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — but it also encompasses seven states contiguous to those four — Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday the document was "not a White House document."
"There is no effort to do what is potentially suggested," he said. Spicer called the AP report "100 percent not true, adding that there was "no effort at all to utilize the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants."
A DHS official described the document as a very early draft that was not seriously considered and never brought to the secretary for approval.
Every administration of nearly every country always puts together contingency plans in case they are ever needed, from invading their neighbors to declaring martial law to rounding up lawbreakers. Some unnamed staff put them together and stick them in file cabinets, and never look at them again.
But here we have some government source pulling such a form out of the cabinet again and leaking it to the sycophantic press , who immediately writes a misleading article as though the President himself was actively considering doing it. And using alarming phrases such as "mobilizing", "unprecedented", "millions", "militarization" etc. It's a classic example of Fake News.
The one is about using 100,000 National Guard troops to supposedly "round up" illegal aliens in many states. If it hadn't been that, it would have been something else, maybe a plan to invade Iran or something (I'm sure the govt has had that plan in their files for years too).
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AP Exclusive: DHS weighed Nat Guard for immigration roundups
AP Exclusive: DHS weighed Nat Guard for immigration roundups
Feb. 17, 2017
GARANCE BURKE,
Associated Press
The Trump administration considered 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.
Staffers in the Department of Homeland Security said the proposal had been discussed as recently as Friday.
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.
Four states that border on Mexico were included in the proposal — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — but it also encompasses seven states contiguous to those four — Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday the document was "not a White House document."
"There is no effort to do what is potentially suggested," he said. Spicer called the AP report "100 percent not true, adding that there was "no effort at all to utilize the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants."
A DHS official described the document as a very early draft that was not seriously considered and never brought to the secretary for approval.
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