With the stage set for President Donald Trump’s first official State of the Union (SOTU) address this evening (Feb. 24), Americans are preparing to hear a much needed update on how the country is doing and what the president’s future plans are.
If you’ve been paying any attention to his first year back in the White House, then you’re probably well aware of the president’s bad habit of making false claims and misleading statements. So ahead of Trump’s highly-anticipated speech, we’re diving deep into three key issues that the administration hasn’t been totally truthful about.
The president’s mass deportation policy will certainly be on his docket tonight. Trump has repeatedly boasted that his immigration agenda is the most efficient and effective in American history. But that’s not all the way true, is it?
We previously told you the U.S. experienced negative net migration last year, and while the president has celebrated this as an obvious indicator of his successful policy, the data tells a different story. The Brookings Institute found the negative number is largely due to the drop in immigrants coming crossing the border and not because Trump is deporting a record number of people. Voluntary self-deportation reportedly also played a huge role in these figures.
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