Acting ICE director accidentally debunks two of Trump's biggest immigration lies

During yet another off-camera press briefing from White House and federal government officials, acting ICE Director Thomas Homan kneecapped two of Donald Trump’s biggest and boldest lies regarding the undocumented immigrant population. Homan shares a lot of the same anti-immigrant sentiment as his boss, so it seems safe to assume the admissions were most likely a big fat “oops” moment. But yes, someone in there managed to actually tell the truth on immigration for once:

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At off-cam WH briefing acting ICE dir. Horman concedes undocumented immigrants do not commit more crimes than native born Americans.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 28, 2017

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Head of ICE said number of illegal immigrants are '11-12 million' - and said he 'never heard' of 30 million estimate used by Trump in '16.

— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) June 28, 2017

No wonder they didn’t want cameras around.

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