Me: "Since the pandemic... border apprehensions have gone up month after month. Joe Biden did not inherit falling numbers."
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't know where you're getting figures from."
Me: "Those are CBP numbers."
Watch our exchange on @MSNBC:
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't know where you're getting figures from."
Me: "Those are CBP numbers."
Watch our exchange on @MSNBC:
On @MSNBC tonight, I asked GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw why he said on Fox, twice, that Biden has been telling migrants "we're not gonna deport you," given 72% of migrants apprehended at the border in Feb were expelled straight away.
Watch his, ahem, response:
Watch his, ahem, response:
Me: "Do you know many migrants were sent to Honduras & El Salvador under what you call 'very important' Asylum Cooperation Agreements?"
Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't have the numbers."
Me: "Roughly?"
Crenshaw: "I don't have that data on me."
Me: "Zero."
Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't have the numbers."
Me: "Roughly?"
Crenshaw: "I don't have that data on me."
Me: "Zero."
More info on these agreements:
"Under the asylum deal, initially described as a “safe third country agreement,” the administration can deport migrants at the southwestern border seeking safety in the United States to Guatemala to seek refuge there."
nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/…
"Under the asylum deal, initially described as a “safe third country agreement,” the administration can deport migrants at the southwestern border seeking safety in the United States to Guatemala to seek refuge there."
nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/…
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