Boebert Busted In Insane Lie About Migrant Payments

The Washington Post reports:

With a phone call or a letter, a House member can obtain detailed statistics from government agencies. So the words of a lawmaker can carry weight. This tweet by Boebert, for instance, went viral, earning more than 2 million views from more than 13,000 retweets. We should point out that this claim is false, worthy of Four Pinocchios, and has been debunked over and over.

It doesn’t require advanced math to reveal how bogus this claim is. The monthly payment claimed by Boebert would mean at least $26,400 a year per migrant. The Center for Immigration Studies, which supports stricter immigration limits, estimates that at least 2 million migrants have been released into the United States under President Biden.

If Boebert were right, 2 million undocumented immigrants would require an annual budget of about $53 billion — a line item hard to hide in the budget. The annual funding for the entire Department of Homeland Security provided by Congress is only about $60 billion a year.

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Biden is giving each illegal family $2,200 per month plus a free plane ticket and free medical care.

If you come to this country illegally, you get everything handed to you on a silver platter.

If you’re a struggling American citizen, you get nothing. You actually just…

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) September 8, 2023

Fact Checker: Lauren Boebert shared a viral tweet that was based on bad information that has been debuked repeatedly. https://t.co/F1wlqK0brm

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 21, 2023