Immigration and Customs Enforcement Denies Asking Trump to Visit Border

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-denies-asking-trump-to-visit-border?ref=home

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Denies Asking Trump to Visit Border
WASN’T ME
Matt Taylor, National Editor
Published Mar. 29, 2021 11:07AM ET
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Former president and longtime race baiter Donald Trump made waves over the weekend when he suggested in a Fox News interview that officials had requested his presence at the increasingly chaotic southern U.S. border. “Well a lot of people want me to [go], the Border Patrol and the people of ICE want me there and have asked me to go,” Trump told Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro. “I feel I sort of owe it to them.”

Trump set what advocates described as a new mark for cruelty at the border by separating families from their children and instituting a “Return to Mexico” policy that left migrants vulnerable and exposed. Now that a so-called surge of migrants, including children, has threatened to overwhelm U.S. officials in the early days of the Biden administration, Trump appears determined to capitalize on it.

But if the ex-president enjoying lingering support among the rank-and-file of CBP and ICE is more than plausible, at least one of the agencies tasked with enforcing U.S. immigration law distanced itself from any visit.

“There is no official ICE personnel communications that went out,” Paige Hughes, spokesperson for ICE , told The Daily Beast, adding that she could not speak for what individuals or their union representatives might have done.

[captain queeg]

1. Those voices in his head...

[MyOwnPeace]

2. And THAT......

could be the answer for EVERYTHING he ever says!

[dweller]

3. Just imagine how many times he's said 'you're fired!

To Biden ... in his head

✌🏻

[TigressDem]

4. NO.tRump misunderstood. "UP AGAINST THE WALL, criminal" doesn't mean they want you at border. nt

[Baked Potato]

5. What, Dump didn't hear his inside man's tears splashing onto the phone?

[gratuitous]

6. Okay, new rule

From now on, every Republican has to answer for whatever latest bullshit that fell out of Needy Amin's pie hole before they get interviewed on any of the shows. "Yeah, Senator, we'll get to the latest attempt of your party to disenfranchise a significant segment of voters in a second, but first, what was Donald Trump talking about when he claimed that ICE had invited him down to the border? I mean, ICE did no such thing. Why did he say that?" And they don't get to be interviewed until they answer.

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. You mean he lied? I'm shocked (not really)

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. This is his typical misleading shit ... he said 'the people of ICE' ... not 'ICE' ...

That could mean two people that work for ICE said on twitter "You should come down Mr Pres*****!" ... and he technically did not lie (about that part at least).

He's actually quite cunning with kind of bullshit, i.e. a pro at saying stuff that's not QUITE a lie, but is clearly meant to give a false impression.