DHS Secretary: Democrats Owe Trump An Apology For Peddling Lies About His Remarks On Immigrants

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Matt Vespa  "Katie wrote about this yesterday. President Trump had a roundtable discussion with those fighting sanctuary city policies that have become a protective shield for illegals to hide behind to avoid deportation. He called MS-13 "animals," but the liberal media decided to once again peddle fake news, erroneously claiming the president was saying this about all illegal aliens. Pavlich had the transcript:

SHERIFF MIMS:  Thank you. There could be an MS-13 member I know about -- if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.

THE PRESIDENT:  We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in -- and we're stopping a lot of them -- but we're taking people out of the country.  You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are.  These aren’t people.  These are animals.  And we're taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that's never happened before. 

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. . . "Now, Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen is asking Democrats who piled on the fake news train yesterday to hop off and apologize to President Trump. The DHS secretary added that she was “horrified” at how the record was being distorted (via Free Beacon):