Around this time of year in 2015, a false rumor circulated claiming that then-President Barack Obama wanted to issue an executive order to change the name of Thanksgiving to 'Celebrate Immigrants Day.'
A conservative political activist who participated in a conference call with the White House said President Obama should change Thanksgiving Day to a holiday dedicated to illegal immigrants.
Susan Payne of Maryland told radio talk show host Joe Miller on KOAN this would be happening once this"amnesty mill" is complete. There was no plan afoot for such a change of nomenclature, however, nor was that what Payne actually asserted. What she said was that during the course of the conference call on immigration that she listened to, an individual representing one of the many interest groups who took part in the conference call said that"once this is all finished, there should be another executive order that changes Thanksgiving to Celebrate Immigrants Day.
So according to Payne, all that took place was that an unidentified person representing an unidentified interest group taking part in a White House conference call on immigration made an off-hand suggestion that President Obama cap his immigration reform efforts by issuing an executive order changing the name of the Thanksgiving holiday.
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