Romney’s Immigration Exaggeration

FactCheck by Eugene Kiely | Jun. 19, 2012 (Fact Check)

Mitt Romney exaggerates when he says President Obama “did nothing on immigration” for three and a half years, even when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Obama supported and lobbied for the DREAM Act, which would have created a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants who were brought to … More >> Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Pamela Hogle - Jun 18, 2012 - 8:06 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 23, 2012

The article has almost all the facts correct, and they are informational. However, Annenberg did not have the guts to call it an out and out lie, a lie Romney has tried to make big by saying it often. If the big lie technique is not called out, and just wrist-slapped as an exaggeration, then the fact checking lacks cajones. Or is biased.

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