In the aftermath of the recent vice presidential debate, CBS News moderator Margaret Brennan received a fact-check against her supposed fact-check of Ohio senator JD Vance’s comments regarding migrants in Springfield, Ohio.  During the debate, Brennan suggested that foreigners in the United States under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are here legally.  However, experts have contested Brennan’s remarks, calling out factual errors.

Despite a rule CBS reportedly imposed that would prevent the moderators from fact-checking the candidates, as the ABC News moderators controversially did with former President Trump in the presidential debate, Brennan interjected after Vance’s comments.  The moderators suggested that the tens of thousands of Haitian migrants that have poured into Springfield, Ohio, have legal status.

However, immigration experts have a contrasting opinion.  Julie Kirchner, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) claimed, “CBS moderator Margaret Brennan was wrong in her ‘fact check’ regarding Haitian migrants.  Haitians who enter the country illegally and then obtain temporary protected status are shielded from deportation, but receiving temporary protected status does not confer legal status.”

Kirchner pointed out that migrants who are in the United States legally would not require protection from being deported.  “Finally, Haitians who cross the southern border illegally and claim asylum do not have, and will not get legal status, until their application for asylum is actually approved —  which usually takes years, and, as the data show, happens in less than 5 percent of cases,” she said.

Art Arthur, a resident fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, offered a similar opinion, stating, “All those people who make appointments with the CBP One App have no right to be in the United States,” he said. “They are essentially here illegally — they have no visas, they have no right to enter, yet they were paroled into the United States.”  He added, “You can’t be paroled into the United States if you are admissible, you can only be paroled into the United States if you are inadmissible.”

For context, after Vance had made a point during the debate that mentioned Springfield, Brennan attempted to fact-check the senator, stating, “Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, Temporary Protected Status,” she said.  Vance quickly fired back setting the record straight.

“But Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check, and since you’re fact-checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on,” Vance maintained. “So there’s an application called the CBP One app where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand.”

“That is not a person coming in applying for a green card and waiting for 10 years — ” he continued, as the moderator tried to interrupt Vance and move to the next point.  “Thank you, senator, for describing the legal process,” Margaret responded, before moving on.

Watch Vance’s epic rebuttal of Brenna’s dubious fact-check below:

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