Fact Check: Did Biden Have ‘Nothing to Say’ About the Deaths of 53 Migrants?

A tweet by RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is false.

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Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel claimed in a recent tweet that President Joe Biden “had nothing to say about 53 migrants dying in TX after being smuggled in a trailer.”

McDaniel is referring to an incident in June, when law enforcement officers found a trailer filled with migrants that were being trafficked into the United States. Fifty-three of the migrants died from the heat and poor conditions in the trailer in which they were being smuggled. 

Contrary to McDaniel’s claim, Biden did speak out about the deaths. In a statement on June 28, the president said: “This incident underscores the need to go after the multi-billion dollar criminal smuggling industry preying on migrants and leading to far too many innocent deaths. In Los Angeles two weeks ago, I announced that the United States has launched a first-of-its kind anti-smuggling campaign with our regional partners. In the first three months, we have made over 2,400 arrests, and that work will only intensify in the months ahead.”

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    Fdterritory

    This feels like you're fact checking a figure of speech. BREAKING: my love for you is not ACKTUALLY a rose.

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      Estoppel Enjoyer

      I don’t see how McDaniel’s statement was meant metaphorically. She was comparing Biden’s alleged lack of a statement about the truck deaths to Biden’s statement about Martha’s Vineyard. If he made statements about both (and his statement about the truck deaths was far more official, substantive, and action-oriented) then her Tweet doesn’t make sense. What metaphor could she even be making?

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  2. Slaffey

    Yeah, but other than THAT, he didn't say anything.

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    rlritt

    It's easy for them to lie because their readers aren't curious. They just want to here bad things about Biden. As if any of her readers or listeners care about 50 dead illegal immigrants.

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  4. Jim Hahn

    How about Fact Checking the Biden Administration every time they say “the border is secure”?

    Over 2 million have crossed illegally but it took just 50 show up in Martha’s Vineyard for the Media to notice.

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      Estoppel Enjoyer

      Last I checked, “the border” has been a major focus on many major media platforms for the entire Biden Administration. And the Martha’s Vineyard thing, if the allegations against DeSantis are mostly true, was a truly fiendish thing for a public official to do- the press ignoring a festering problem is kinda par for the course, whereas flashy political stunts tend to pay off in terms of free attention. That’s not new and it’s not partisan.

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    2. Francisco Rodriguez

      I would say because that's a waste of time. Everyone likely to see this particular fact check knows it isn't really true that the border is secure, or it's only true in an extremely limited sense.

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      Scarlette Tarte

      The people brought to Martha's Vineyard were not illegal. As most of the others bussed around the country have not been.

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      rlritt

      Come on. You know they have caught 1.7 million and have sent most back to Mexico. It's just that the countries south of us are so bad that their people are willing to risk death or incarceration to get out of there. It is a terrible problem, but not one that is neither being ignored or easy to solve. If Republucans and Democrats could forget politics and work together, they might actually come up with a solution.

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      1. Jim Hahn

        You sure about that 1.7M caught ?

        And just FYI – it’s not just countries in the south. People are coming from all over the world….some even from Russia.

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          Scarlette Tarte

          And they always have. And always will.

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          rlritt

          I know. Because it's such a large border. From the Pacific to Gulf of Mexico. No other 1st world country has such a long border. It's nearly impossible to monitor every foot of it. They still manage to stop 1.8 million so far this year.

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