The Washington Post is helping a H.W. Bush administration official walk back his 1990 congressional testimony that Bush's executive action on immigration could have helped up to 1.5 million people and using that to decry the Obama administration's use of the figure to justify its upcoming immigration action. But the official, then-Federal Immigration Commissioner Gene McNary, was the person who introduced the 1.5 million figure, and an immigration expert's analysis of immigration numbers at the time shows that the figure is plausible.White House Says George H.W.
Ellie Sandmeyer: Wash . Post Digs In Its Heels On Botched Immigration Fact Check
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