House Dems Use Photos to Promote 'Kids in Cages' Hearing, GOP Notices Humiliating Detail
Democrats appear intent on making the 2020 race for the White House a referendum on immigration, but that strategy keeps devolving into a comedy of errors.
We’ve already seen liberal lawmakers exaggerate and even lie to push a narrative on the border. You know how it goes: Nothing was wrong with immigration policy until Donald Trump took office. Now suddenly the government has begun putting children in cages.
Of course, anyone with even a passing knowledge of the real situation can see through the hyperbole. For the umpteenth time, liberals just used Obama-era photos of border detentions to re-write history and pin blame on Republicans.
As Fox News reported on July 10, “Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have deleted tweets that promoted an upcoming Wednesday afternoon hearing on ‘kids in cages’ after being called out for using Obama-era images of migrants in detention to highlight current conditions at the border.”
Those weren’t some random tweets online, but official posts from the Democrat-run House committee. The accompanying photos were clearly meant to evoke emotion and spark outrage.
“Last week, members of our committee visited a detention center at the southern border and discovered grotesque treatment of children,” one of the tweets posted Tuesday declared. “This week, we are examining the inhumane treatment of the children in these detention centers.”
But it seems Democrats didn’t bother vetting the photo they posted in the same tweet. The image was actually taken by an Associated Press photographer in 2014, two years before Trump was even elected president. And who ran the executive branch and Border Patrol at that time?
Democrats, of course.
“House Democrats are promoting their ‘civil rights’ hearing on ‘kids in cages’ and ‘inhumane treatment’ with a photo from 2014, when Joe Biden was Vice President,” a tweet from the Trump campaign pointed out. “So dishonest!”
House Democrats are promoting their “civil rights” hearing on “kids in cages” and “inhumane treatment” with a photo from 2014, when Joe Biden was Vice President. So dishonest! pic.twitter.com/Exuj1eudrr
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 9, 2019
There’s more.
Tripping over themselves to prove their own ineptitude, House Democrats then put up another tweet with a completely different image. The second post also contained a “kids in cages” photo, again from the Obama presidency.
“You all know that’s a picture from 2014, right? Remind us who was President then,” conservative members of the Oversight Committee replied. Democrats unceremoniously deleted the tweets.
You all know that’s a picture from 2014, right? Remind us who was President then ? https://t.co/Z6uE04wALq
— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) July 9, 2019
If there was any doubt, even The Associated Press has run an article confirming that the photos were from Obama’s time in office.
These are small examples, but they perfectly illustrate the deceit that Democrats are peddling.
Conservatives don’t dispute that there are major problems at the border; Trump and other Republicans have been sounding the alarm on mass immigration for years.
But for much of that time, liberals in government and the media insisted that there wasn’t a crisis. They insisted that the issue was being “manufactured” by the right, all while thousands of Central American migrants formed giant caravans to push toward the border en masse.
The reason that Democrats keep getting caught twisting reality on the border is because their fingerprints are all over the problem. If they told the truth, their own party would be implicated.
It’s a fact that border detentions, including of children, happened all the time during former President Barack Obama’s eight years in office. Pretending the problem is new is lying. Politicians have shrugged off the immigration question and kicked it down the road for decades.
If it’s time for solutions, then it’s also time to demand that the left end its charade.
President Obama and other Democrats spent years running border facilities similar to Trump’s. Claiming otherwise with misleading photos helps nothing, just confirming that the president’s most vocal opponents are living in a bizarre fantasy world.
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