Jerome Corsi falsely asserts in an April 17 WorldNetDaily article that President Obama “has resisted any and all measures to secure the U.S. border with Mexico.”
That is a complete lie. In fact, the Associated Press has reported that “the U.S.-Mexico border is more fortified now than it was even five years ago. Far more agents patrol it, more fences, barriers and technology protect it and taxpayers are spending billions more to reinforce it.” The AP also reported that “Obama’s administration has moved immigration investigators to the border and begun inspecting southbound train cargo to help stem cash and weapons flowing to Mexican drug cartels.”
Further, USA Today reported that a joint operation between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agencies that launched in September 2009 “has resulted in the arrest of 270,000 illegal border crossers, the seizure of 1.6 million pounds of marijuana and the recovery of $13 million in cash in the border’s Tucson Sector.”
Corsi went to claim that Obama’s purported lack of border enforcement can be traced to “the Democratic Party’s expectation that the surge in Hispanic population will represent an electoral advantage for Democratic candidates seeking public office.” Corsi offers no evidence to back up this claim.
If Corsi can lie so casually and blatantly, why trust anything he has to say in his upcoming Obama-bashing birther book?