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White House Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to discuss President Trump’s plans for illegal immigration following his order to move National Guard troops to the border. Fill-in host Martha Raddatz deployed the classic liberal media tactics such as selectively picking data points and placing false blame in an effort to trip up her guest. But Bossert held her off and schooled her on the issues.
After Bossert noted the 40-year low in illegal border crossings and knocking those who said it was “good enough,” Raddatz tried to grill him on the need for the National Guard. “But you bring up those lows. 46-year low in apprehension. So what was the crisis here? Why did he have to rush the National Guard in,” she pressed.
“Yeah, so this is the problem with statistics and comparisons,” Bossert quipped. “What I'll throw back to you is the more appropriate comparison, what we briefed the President on was the trends that we're seeing and what we're seeing is a 200 percent increase this month, March, this past month in apprehensions.” Bossert noted that along with that large increase came some 50,000 apprehensions.
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. melanie.hunter
