Clearly what I had said was exactly true. I had quoted specifically
from the data from the Obama administration, and it was 100 percent
accurate. So then they come back--they thought they would catch me in
not having proper information, and they come back to my communications
person and said: Well, we have got information from the Bureau of
Prisons that showed that if you look at all offenses that involved
controlled substances, the percentage of noncitizens is not nearly that
high. So why would he use just possession? The point was because President Obama had used simple possession to
try to make it look as if people in Federal prison were not there for
very serious crimes, and there is certainly a smaller number of people
in Federal prison for possession than for dealing drugs and other
charges.
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