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Tim Scott is the latest Republican angling for a political stunt at the border, so let\u2019s take a look at his MAGA record on the issue, including his fervent support of Donald Trump\u2019s reckless policies and his willingness to use our immigration system as a political tool by telling lies about the realities at the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott said he would work with Tucker Carlson to develop plans for a mass deportation policy and threatened to name Carlson his \u201cbye-bye ambassador.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott<\/a>: \u201cI’m going to appoint Tucker Carlson as my bye-bye ambassador to figure this out. So we’re going to work together on this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tucker Carlson<\/a>: \u201cWould you deport any of them? How many would you deport?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott: \u201cI think you have to start the process of identifying where they are. \u2026 So, in order for us to achieve the goals that the really brilliant guy on the stage \u2014 I’m not talking about myself \u2014 wants us to achieve \u2026 we have to identify where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott was a fierce advocate for Donald Trump\u2019s extreme MAGA immigration policies, and supported shutting down the government over border wall funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bret Baier<\/a>: \u201cSo just to be clear, are you for a punt into the new year if it comes to that to kind of avoid the standoff?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott: \u201cI’m going to stand with the president as it relates to funding the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cLongest shutdown in history ends after Trump relents on wall\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott also supported Trump\u2019s extreme plan to shift national emergency funds to border wall construction.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Payne<\/a>: \u201cDo you support the president\u2018s national emergency plan?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott: \u201cOne hundred percent. \u2026 We have a chance to act, and we should support our president in acting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Scott was busy defending Trump\u2019s extremism, South Carolinians lost millions in funding for a military project that was then used to fund the border wall.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State<\/a>: \u201cTrump taking $11 million from SC military project to fund border wall\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State<\/a>: \u201cSC misses out on millions returned to state projects raided to fund Trump border wall\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott has repeatedly lied about the realities at the border to score political points, including during his campaign launch in May.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PolitiFact<\/a>: \u201cScott said, \u2018There have been more illegal encounters under Biden than the previous two administrations combined.\u2019 \u2026 Nationwide and southwest border data shows there have been fewer enforcement actions under Biden than under Trump and Obama combined. Scott\u2019s calculation also used inconsistent metrics and cast a wider net for Biden than for the other two presidents. Given the flaws in the math, we rate this claim False.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FactCheck.org<\/a>: \u201cIn his interview on NBC News after he announced his candidacy, Scott left the false impression that building a wall along the southern border and taking other steps to prevent people from illegally entering the country can \u2018stop fentanyl from crossing our border.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScott is wrong to suggest that stopping people from illegally entering the country can \u2018stop fentanyl from crossing our border.\u2019 As we have written before, most drug seizures at the border occur during traffic stops at legal ports of entry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Generally, intelligence suggests that more foreign-produced cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl flow into the country through official ports of entry (POEs) than between the ports,\u2019 the Congressional Research Service said in a 2020 report (emphasis is in the report). \u2018Seizure data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) follows this pattern as well.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cScott, while discussing the need to secure America\u2019s borders, said, \u2018If you don\u2019t control your back door, it\u2019s not your house. And if our southern border is unsafe and insecure, it\u2019s not our country. Hundreds of people on our terrorist watch list are crossing our borders.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFacts First: Scott is correct that US Customs and Border Protection encountered hundreds of people trying to enter the United States in fiscal year 2022 who are in the Terrorist Screening Dataset, but most of those encounters occurred at land border ports of entry on the northern border of the United States, not the southern border as Scott implied when he said it is \u2018unsafe and insecure.\u2019 In fiscal year 2022, border officials had 380 encounters with people who had records on the watchlist and tried to pass through ports of entry \u2013 313 of those were at the northern border at a port of entry and 67 were on the southwestern border at a port of entry, according to data from USCBP.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cStephen W. Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell Law School, said using the phrase \u2018crossing our borders\u2019 was an exaggeration. \u2018They were caught at the border, either at a port of entry or between a port of entry,\u2019 he said. \u2018So perhaps \u2018caught attempting to cross the border\u2019 would be more accurate.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dScott\u2019s line, while presumably written to be technically accurate, lacks important context. It comes in a section of his speech where he\u2019s talking about the southern border, but the federal data he references shows more of the encounters are on the northern border. He says people on the terrorism list crossed the borders when in fact they were stopped. It\u2019s also possible someone was wrongly included on the watch list. Scott earns Two Pinocchios.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Scott is the latest Republican angling for a political stunt at the border, so let\u2019s take a look at his MAGA record on the issue, including his fervent support of Donald Trump\u2019s reckless policies and his willingness to use our immigration system as a political tool by telling lies about the realities at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Truth About Tim Scott\u2019s Extreme Immigration Record - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-truth-about-tim-scotts-extreme-immigration-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-04T14:01:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-04T20:07:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Old_War-Room-Master-File.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-truth-about-tim-scotts-extreme-immigration-record\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-truth-about-tim-scotts-extreme-immigration-record\/\",\"name\":\"The Truth About Tim Scott\u2019s Extreme Immigration Record - 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