{"id":367963,"date":"2018-07-04T09:48:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T08:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-democrats-dont-want-open-borders\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T09:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T08:48:55","slug":"no-democrats-dont-want-open-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-democrats-dont-want-open-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo, Democrats Don\u2019t Want \u2018Open Borders\u2019\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Menahan<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=58626\">Information Liberation<\/a><br \/>June 29, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New York Times \u201cfact-checked\u201d President Trump\u2019s statement that Democrats \u201cwant open borders\u201d and proclaimed it \u201cfalse.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linda Qiu wrote in the NY Times\u2019 \u201cFact Check Of the Day\u201d on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/27\/us\/politics\/fast-check-donald-trump-democrats-open-borders.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\">No, Democrats Don\u2019t Want \u2018Open Borders\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Trump has falsely claimed at least two dozen times since taking office that Democrats want to open American borders. But legislation shows that Democrats support border security measures, though not the border wall he wants to build.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Welp, that settles that!<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, not everyone was satisfied:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">literally a DNC deputy chair <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g5OfrFTIaz\">pic.twitter.com\/g5OfrFTIaz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Perry (@MrJoshPerry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJoshPerry\/status\/1011963537252605952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes they do<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 kevin evitts (@Mrmagoo12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mrmagoo12\/status\/1011948674765729792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zxbwCbZMyY\">https:\/\/t.co\/zxbwCbZMyY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerylBier\/status\/1011971930994470912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Actually, the (growing) progressive wing of the party does want open borders.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i4OGRWUaK6\">https:\/\/t.co\/i4OGRWUaK6<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/plqN7lSR3B\">https:\/\/t.co\/plqN7lSR3B<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/roP6ssd6D4\">https:\/\/t.co\/roP6ssd6D4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Muni Guy (@Muniguy2012) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Muniguy2012\/status\/1012002130977173504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can\u2019t imagine why trust in the media is at historic lows. Opinion masquerading as a fact check. Fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitaPanahi\/status\/1011980358261223424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, June 29, 2018  at  5:55 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/nyt-fact-check-no-democrats-dont-want-open-borders.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/nyt-fact-check-no-democrats-dont-want-open-borders.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris MenahanInformation LiberationJune 29, 2018 The New York Times \u201cfact-checked\u201d President Trump\u2019s statement that Democrats \u201cwant open borders\u201d and proclaimed it \u201cfalse.\u201d Linda Qiu wrote in the NY Times\u2019 \u201cFact Check Of the Day\u201d on Wednesday: No, Democrats Don\u2019t Want \u2018Open Borders\u2019 President Trump has falsely claimed at least two dozen times since taking office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}