Posted March 10, 2016 3:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

In last night’s debate with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton lashed out at the “minutemen” militia patrolling America’s southern border. “And as I said earlier, in 2006, Senator Sanders supported indefinite detention for people facing deportation…and stood with the Minutemen vigilantes in their ridiculous, absurd efforts to, quote, hunt down immigrants.” Moderator Jorge Ramos pushed Sanders on that point . . .

RAMOS: Did you support the Minutemen, Senator? Did you support the Minutemen?

SANDERS: I’m sorry?

RAMOS: Did you support the Minutemen, as Secretary Clinton has said?

SANDERS: Of course not. There was a piece of legislation supported by dozens and dozens of members of the House which codified existing legislation. What the secretary is doing tonight and has done very often is take large pieces of legislation and take pieces out of it.

Well, not really. The Washington Post’s fact checkers had this to say about that:

“Clinton was referring to an incident that BuzzFeed documented in December. In 2006, members of Congress had become upset at rumors that American officials were tipping off the Mexican government about the whereabouts of Minutemen patrols,” our Fact Checkers explain.

“Sanders, then a House member, was one of …Read the Rest

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