'Should be embarrassed': Trump admin slaps back as it's caught in major lie
'Should be embarrassed': Trump admin slaps back as it's caught in major lie
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-Mar...
But the government’s own data, which was obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and a team of journalists from Venezuela, showed that officials knew that only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of U.S. crimes and that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations.
The data indicates that the government knew that only six of the immigrants were convicted of violent crimes: four for assault, one for kidnapping and one for a weapons offense. And it shows that officials were aware that more than half, or 130, of the deportees were not labeled as having any criminal convictions or pending charges; they were labeled as only having violated immigration laws.
As if Republicans and Christian conservatives cared about innocent people being ruined by the government.
The slap is powerless against the power of slammed.
This assumes the people in the Trump administration are capable of feeling embarrassment or shame.
Should be. Won’t be.
Add it to the list of crimes. And start actually prosecuting!