The debate over DACA: a guide to the numbers used by politiciansSpeaking to lawmakers about legislation to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients,...
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | | | | | The truth behind the rhetoric | | | | | | The debate over DACA: a guide to the numbers used by politicians Speaking to lawmakers about legislation to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, President Trump said, "A lot of people say 800,000; some people said — yesterday, first time I heard 650 [thousand]. I also heard 3 million. The fact is, our country was such a mess, nobody even knows what the numbers [of people affected] are." DACA was intended to let "dreamers" — undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children, who in many cases knew no other home — avoid deportation and get work permits that are renewed every two years. Under the program, the Obama administration set forth a series of qualifying requirements for DACA applicants. But like with so many other things, the numbers of who the program affects and who new legislation could affect seems to depend on who you ask. Ranging from a low-ball figure of 650,000 (fewer than the 689,800 current DACA recipients) to an eye-popping 10 million (a number we think is based on dubious calculations) and everything in between, we breakdown what's real and what's not. |  | | Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this e-mail was forwarded to you, sign up here for the weekly newsletter. Hear something fact-checkable? Send it here, we'll check it out. | | President Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims in his first year One year after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made 2,140 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker's database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. That's an average of nearly 5.9 claims a day. By our count, there were only 56 days — or about 15 percent of the time — on which we recorded no claims. These were often days when the president golfed. There were also 12 days in which Trump made more than 30 claims. These were often days when he held campaign-style rallies, riffing without much of a script. We started this project because the pace and volume of the president's misstatements means that we cannot possibly keep up. Readers can use the interactive database to quickly search a claim after they hear it, since there's a good chance he's said it before. There are now more than 70 claims that he has repeated three or more times. Twice the president has publicly said he doesn't like getting Pinocchios. Given the president's track record in his first year, there is certainly room for improvement as he opens his second year. | | | Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. –Meg Kelly | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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