GOP Lawmaker's Basic Numbers Gaffe Reignites Mockery Of Math Book Bans

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) raised eyebrows on Tuesday when she tweeted a dramatic exaggeration of the immigration situation on the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 1,000,000,000 migrants at our southern border in just 6 months,” she wrote on Twitter. “President Biden’s open border policies are fueling this crisis!”

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics, between October and March, just over 1 million migrants were apprehended or expelled at the southern border.

Her post stayed up more than five hours before it was deleted.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-lawmakers-basic-numbers-gaffe-062208015.html

But math is hard.

[haele]

1. I doubt to there's a billion people in.most of both South and Central America.

Does she mean to imply that more than half the denizens that live South of the US border tried to cross over the last year?
Those countries must be nearly empty. And where could we be keeping a billion people in custody?
Maybe in the empty area between her ears?

Haele

[Thomas Hurt]

2. and the Pig's cultists will believe that number is true.

[rsdsharp]

3. I know this isn't the point of the story,

but what is it about “apprehended or expelled” that they don’t understand?

[hvn_nbr_2]

4. A million is as good as a billion to an illiterate insane nincompoop. nt