WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden on Thursday misstated the reality at the U.S.-Mexico border when he asserted that “nothing has changed” when it comes to the number of children coming to the United States since his predecessor, Donald Trump, was in office. The numbers are up since Biden became president on Jan. 20.
In his first presidential news conference, Biden also offered a misleading account of who’s getting the most benefits from the Trump tax cuts.
A look at Biden’s remarks:
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BIDEN, asked about the increase in immigrant children crossing the border: “Truth of the matter is nothing has changed. As many people came – 28% increase in children to the border in my administration; 31% in the last year in 2019, before the pandemic – in the Trump administration. It happens every single solitary year. There is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March. It happens every year.”