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‘Over 11 Million Undocumented Folks — The Vast Majority Overstaying Visas’: Breaking Down Joe Biden’s Misleading Immigration Claim

Ian Haworth
‘Over 11 Million Undocumented Folks — The Vast Majority Overstaying Visas’: Breaking Down Joe Biden’s Misleading Immigration Claim
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During Biden’s first address to Congress on April 28, he claimed that of the “over 11 million undocumented folks” living in America, “the vast majority” are “overstaying visas.”

This ad-lib addition to the prepared script was “not totally off base,” according to The Washington Post, while CNN’s fact-checker Daniel Dale described such comments as “his pattern,” indicative of “some issues when he starts ad-libbing number stuff.”

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