'D'oh!' Harry Reid gets royally busted — by himself! — for lying about his illegal immigration stance

Sarah D | 2:31 PM on October 31, 2018

As Twitchy told you, a very desperate Harry Reid is trying to explain away his 1993 call to end birthright citizenship after Donald Trump praised him for it.

Reid issues statement following POTUS noting his past support for ending birthright citizenship: pic.twitter.com/FOujLneHak

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 31, 2018

There are plenty of problems with Reid’s statement. But this one might be the biggest of them all:

Reid says that “immediately” after he proposed the bill in 1993 his wife sat him down and set him straight. Except here’s an op-ed he wrote in the Los Angeles Times more than a year later pushing the same legislation. https://t.co/3TLmyvbrbF https://t.co/K9RwmZGs3i

— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) October 31, 2018

Reid wrote:

Taxpayers simply cannot continue to sustain new populations the size of San Diego or the state of Nevada every year. California is sending up the red flag tat Washington should heed.Unprecedented demands are being placed on job markets, schools, hospitals, police, social safety nets, infrastructure and natural resources. Unlimited new arrivals pressuring these systems threaten to overwhelm them.

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Our doors should remain open, but only wide enough to admit those to whom we can realistically offer opportunity and security. To leave the door unguarded is to create an environment in which no one can live securely and peacefully. And so I am sponsoring a bill in the Senate to reduce immigration-legal and illegal.