The Oversight Project, a conservative government accountability initiative led by the Heritage Foundation, recently debunked an incorrect fact-check made by the New York Times regarding a claim from former President Donald Trump during the presidential debate that accused Kamala Harris of supporting transgender operations for illegal aliens in America’s prison system.
According to the Oversight Project, the supposed fact-check from the outlet is verifiably false while providing documentation of the policy that is currently in place. “Last week, @nytimes tried to fact check, without evidence, @realDonaldTrump statement that @VP supports transgender surgeries for federal inmates. Yesterday we released docs showing this is the current policy. The fact check remains online,” the Oversight Project’s X account posted, while including screenshots of evidence.
The account responded to a post from New York Times journalist Sheryl Gay Stolberg, which read, “You never know what you are going to have to fact-check at a debate,” while including a link to her fact-check against Trump. “As @MaryMargOlohan reported yesterday, the Bureau of Prisons has 22,000 foreign nationals in its custody and all of those prisoners are eligible for taxpayer-funded gender transitions,” the Oversight Project added, linking to a report from the Daily Wire that proved tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in the prison system are eligible for transgender procedures.
The Daily Wire reportedly discovered that there are approximately 22,000 noncitizens incarcerated in federal prisons that would be eligible for taxpayer-funded gender procedures. “Illegal aliens should be deported, not de-genitaled in prison,” the Oversight Project’s Executive Director, Mike Howell, said in a statement to the outlet.
“It sounds crazy to say but the Harris-Biden Administration has a really highly structured policy and process for transgendering federal prisoners, including illegal aliens. They’re not just doing the basics, they’re giving them the extras like facial hair removal,” Howell continued. “It will make it harder to locate and deport an illegal who has been transgendered after they’re released from prison. They’ll have a whole new identity and look.”
During the September 10 presidential debate, Trump called out the vice president’s radcial stance, stating, “[Kamala Harris] did things that nobody would ever think of now. She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal that would do this.”
The Oversight Project also provided a link to the Biden-Harris administration’s full policy, which outlines the federal government’s stance on transgender medical operations for inmates. According to the Heritage Foundation, the project seeks to work on behalf of the American citizens to hold the government accountable for its activity.
“The Oversight Project works for government that is responsible and accountable to its citizens. We use Freedom of Information Act requests and other means to make government more transparent to the public and to allow Congress to use its oversight authorities with maximum effectiveness. The requests and analysis of information are informed by Heritage’s deep policy expertise. By its nature, the Oversight Project primarily engages in disseminating information to the public,” its website read.
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